Burning CDs with Audio Tracks, PC data and Mac data
For a multimedia project one of our clients at Happyplace wanted to burn a CD with:
- Audiotrack for stereos/car players
- PC Data with a flash projector which autostarts
- Mac data with a finder window that auto opens
- Collect all PC data, add the autostart.inf and all that.
- Collect all Mac data and store it in a .dmg (more on this later)
- Burn the audio CD, make sure you use "write session" and not "write disc"
- In Toast -> Preferences -> Show legacy formats and settings
- Burn a custom Hybrid with the PC data and the mac .dmg
- Using the disc utility, create a new disc with a size that fit your needs (I used 100MB)
- Add all the data you need
- Set the finder background and size as you want, originize the icon you wish to show (I only show the .app file)
- Close and re-open the finder window to save you settings
- (You need to have Xtools installed for this) run the terminal command "/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V /Volumes/Mounted Disc/file" to hide the file "file" on "Mounted Disc". This will make the file invisible
- To make the finder window autoopen, use: udo bless -folder /Volumes/Mounted \Disc/ -openfolder /Volumes/Mounted \Disc/
- That's it. Cool!

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