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	CDRevolution Normally: $19.95 ZOT Price: $12.95

CDRevolution is a CD copying and archiving utility, designed for accuracy and ease of use. Better Audio Copying Some burning software will cut corners when it comes to making copies of original audio CDs. Not so CDRevolution. For instance, CDRevolution keeps the gaps between the tracks the same size as the original – just as the artist intended. Copying an original with CD Text? No problem, CDRevolution will preserve this too. And for those with CD Text compatible equipment – CDRevolution lets you add CD Text to your new copy; even if the original does not have any. Full Fidelity, Compact Audio Images Want to backup your audio CD collection to hard-disk for safe keeping? Using CDRevolution’s image file format you can archive your audio CDs as full fidelity image files in a single convenient document package. No need to mess about with separate cue sheets and binary files. Inside the document package each track is stored as a separate music file compressed using Apple’s Lossless Audio Codec for reduced image size without losing quality. Searching with Spotlight Searching for the image file of a particular album is easy using Spotlight. The built-in Spotlight importer allows you to search amongst the album title, the title of any tack, the artist and other information about the album to quickly locate the image file you want. Integrate with iTunes CDRevolution audio images can be added to iTunes and treated like a regular album; with the added advantage that an accurate copy of the original can be burned whenever you need it. Burn Data CDs and Other Image Formats Standard data CDs are copied with 1:1 accuracy and can be backed-up to an image file. CDRevolution can also burn from standard image files such as DMG, ISO, CDR and even Cue Sheets from other platforms. User Reviews: “This application does exactly what it says it does, which is exactly what I was looking for: To make perfect backup copies of my audio CDs. (It also does data.) … So, skip Toast and save yourself $60-$80 if all you were looking to do was copy CDs.” – Scott Stilson (via VersionTracker) “Thanks for this app – I love it. Exactly what I want to dupe music CDs. Responsive developer, too … I’d say if you want ease of use with perfect audio fidelity you can skip complex apps, and just rip and burn with ease using CDRevolution.” – Chizzola (via VersionTracker) “Works perfectly to burn WAV files ripped with EAC for Windows. I simply dragged the cue file in the window and bam it burned a perfect audio CD.” – Dan (via email) System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later (Universal Binary) For more information, visit the CDRevolution website.

4 Responses to “CDRevolution”

1. Rees Maxwell Says:
   July 30th, 2007 at 12:08 am

   Okay, I’ll bite …

   What does this product do more than Disco (that I bought here way back when)? I love the ease of Disco, and the smoke is useless but keeps the app fun.

   I know I don’t know much, so, how does this app beat Disco?

   Ooo, I know one answer… price! Yikes, I had no idea what full price Disco was fetching now: $30!! For those of you who didn’t catch the Disco wave .. this might just be your ticket to simple & cheap burns.

   -Rees

2. Chris Rodriguez Says:
   July 30th, 2007 at 12:25 am

   I’ll be all over this application if it provides anything similar to EAC (Exact Audio Copy). I really need a low level audio error handling app and if CDRevolution can do this, I’ll be in heaven. Max (freeware audio converter/encoder) is ok, but its no EAC (which I’ve missed dearly since leaving the PC world for good in 2002).

   Great app, I can see all kinds of good things coming from it, especially if you have friends with large CD collections (oops, I said that out loud)….

3. Zenopolis Says:
   July 30th, 2007 at 12:53 am

   Rees – CDRevolution is dedicated to copying and archiving CDs so does not have the disc creation facilities that Disco has. But as it is dedicated to copying it concentrates on making this task as effective and as simple as possible. So CDRevolution allows you to create an image file from an audio CD, and when it does it takes notice of the hidden data such as the between track gap sizes and CD Text – so that it is closer to the original. CDRevolution image files are Spotlight integrated. And the audio image files that CDRevolution creates can be added to, and be played in, iTunes.

   Dave – CDRevolution’s creator

4. Zenopolis Says:
   July 30th, 2007 at 1:34 am

   Chris – At the moment CDRevolution works more like Max in that it does a direct rip of the audio without any special validity checks.

   For others that may be reading that want to know what the implications of this are… CDRevolution will make a byte for byte read of the sound data that your optical disc drive provides. For standard use this is fine, I have compared the ripped sound data and the original CD at the byte level and they match.

   But if you have a badly scratched CD that makes pops or crackles as you play it – CDRevolution will not do anything to fix these errors. As I understand it EAC has special reading modes that attempt to fix scratched discs by repeatedly re-reading the CD until it gets two or more exact matches of sound data.

   Of course – because standard data CD-ROMs have error correction built in – CDRevolution copies these with 1:1 accuracy.

   Incidentally, for those that are not interested in copying CDs but are interested in ripping music – Max is definitely worth a look.

   Dave – CDRevolution’s creator