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FireStarter FX - 1.0b8

CD burning app with cue/bin, iso, overburning...

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All Time:	(3.4)
Version 1.0b8:	(2.0)
Selected Version:	1.0b8
Release Date:	2005-02-10
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 1.0b8):	9,534
Downloads (all versions):	106,237

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Product Description:

FireStarter is a pure Cocoa, Mac OS X only, burning application
It allows you to easily back-up CDs that Apple's Disc-Copy cannot copy
It allows you to back-up as easily CDs that even Roxio Toast cannot copy
It makes brings for the first time on Mac OS X the burning of cue/bin disk-images from the PC world
It brings for the first time overburning available to Mac OS X
You can easily burn complex CD formats such as VCDs and SVCDs
Because you don't want to compromise on quality, FireStarter FX sports all the features you want to see in a commercial grade burning application:

Simulation
Customizable RAM cache
High speed burning
Buffer under-run technology to prevent wasting your media
Multi-session burning
Paranoia audio-cd ripping, for best error protection copy
CDDB access to automatically create CD-TEXT data
CD-TEXT reading and writing with drives that support it
and many more powerfull features

What's new in this version:

Extended beta period. b8 will run until the 15th of August 2005.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.0b8:
Overall Rating:	(2.0)	Features:	(2.5)	Support:	(1.5)
Ease of Use:	(2.5)	Quality / Stability:	(2.0)	Price:	(3.0)

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cdrecord: Result too large - Version: 1.0RC1, 10/8/2009 05:17PM PST

versiontracker.mail.zooloo

I have used Firestarter FX many times successfully to create or burn iso images and am generally very pleased by its performance and usability. Today however, I managed to spoil a CD-R - for the first time (ever) with this application:

I was attempting to burn a 349 MiB iso image. When Firestarter FX reported the failure, the debug log said

...
Track 01:  192 of  348 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  99%]  10.0x.
2009-10-08 15:17:55.383 FireStarter[623] /Applications/[...]/cdrecord: 
    Result too large. read error on input file
2009-10-08 15:18:04.948 FireStarter[623] Writing  time:  156.141s
2009-10-08 15:18:04.963 FireStarter[623] /Applications/[...]/cdrecord: 
    fifo had 6145 puts and 6145 gets.
2009-10-08 15:18:04.963 FireStarter[623] /Applications/[...]/cdrecord: 
    fifo was 0 times empty and 5513 times full, min fill was 97%.

So, cdrecord had troubles reading the source file? I tried with another CD-R, and this time, burning stopped the moment it started, right after the countdown in the log, again complaining "Result too large". DiskUtility also failed to burn the image, so I "converted" it to cdr, and even though the resulting file turned out to be a mere copy (same sha256 checksum), it then passed the burning process without further problems.

I have no clue as to what was the culprit here.
Regardless, the advertised "simulate" option might have prevented the first CD-R from being wasted. For some reason, that checkbox is greyed out though. How is it supposed to be used?

Updated download URL - Version: 1.0RC1, 6/13/2009 02:28PM PST

Mikis--2008

I couldn't get Versiontrackers' download link to do anything, so here's an updated download URL: <http://www.projectomega.org/downloads/internal_products/firestarter/FireStarter_FX-1.0RC1.zip>

Couldn't even launch it - Version: 1.0RC1, 2/3/2009 05:27PM PST

jeanfi

iMac Intel under system 10.4.11. When I double-click Firestarter it immediately crashes.