Roxio DirectCD vs. Ahead InCD

[jrichrds]

I've seen a few comparison reviews of EasyCD Creator and Nero Burning ROM, but none of the packet writers, DirectCD vs. InCD.

If you know of any comparisons, can you please post the link?
Even better, if you've had personal experience with both, which one do you prefer?

It seems DirectCD supports CD-Rs while InCD doesn't. Not sure what happens when you try deleting a file off a CD-R (nothing happens, or DirectCD is able to make the file or folder unreadable/invisible), but it can come in handy copying files onto the CD-R when needed, rather than all at once.

 

[MGMorden]

I have InCD installed on my machine (though I never use it. I've never even had a CD-RW but go through CDR's like mad. Darn Linux ISO's. 🙂). Anyways, I've used DirectCD at work and here's how it works with CDR's: when you delete a file it simply makes the file invisible, so you delete it from the record, but you don't regain disk space when you delete a file. The same also applies when you change a file. It makes the old copy invisible and writes in the new/updated copy. As you can see a CDR is going to become full/unusable VERY quickly if you're using it in an interactive fashion. The feature is nice to have (I guess), but if you truly want to use packet writing software to it's fullest potential then just use CD-RW's. I can't offer a Direct Comparsion of the two programs, but from my experience with the regular burning programs I'd almost have to say that anything Ahead makes is going to be better than the Roxio/Adaptec stuff 🙂.