Burning CDs with Audio Tracks, PC data and Mac data

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For a multimedia project one of our clients at Happyplace wanted to burn a CD with:

  1. Audiotrack for stereos/car players
  2. PC Data with a flash projector which autostarts
  3. Mac data with a finder window that auto opens
This post is a reminder to myself how I did it. I am using Toast.

  1. Collect all PC data, add the autostart.inf and all that.
  2. Collect all Mac data and store it in a .dmg (more on this later)
  3. Burn the audio CD, make sure you use "write session" and not "write disc"
  4. In Toast -> Preferences -> Show legacy formats and settings
  5. Burn a custom Hybrid with the PC data and the mac .dmg
Collecting Mac data:
  1. Using the disc utility, create a new disc with a size that fit your needs (I used 100MB)
  2. Add all the data you need
  3. Set the finder background and size as you want, originize the icon you wish to show (I only show the .app file)
  4. Close and re-open the finder window to save you settings
  5. (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
  6. To make the finder window autoopen, use: udo bless -folder /Volumes/Mounted \Disc/ -openfolder /Volumes/Mounted \Disc/
  7. That's it. Cool!
That should do the trick. You now have a CD that plays audio files in steroes and autostarts on PC and Mac with the appropriate files.

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