From TNPC issue #4.17...

Product Review - Click 'N Burn Pro

by T.J. Lee
August 23, 2001

If you've not burned your first CD yet it's really just a matter of time before you do. From making backups of computer data, storing downloaded programs (you do have backups of all the programs you've downloaded from the Internet, don't you?), making party mixes of your favorite music CDs, duplicating backup and data CDs for easy transporting, there are just too many uses for burning CDs to think you'll never be doing it. The trick is finding a software package that will work with your CD-ROM burner and not require a degree in computer engineering to operate. Al Gordon of these pages favors Nero with a nod to market leader Roxio's Easy CD Creator. I just tried out Click 'N Burn Pro from Stomp, Inc.

Click 'N Burn takes up very little in the way of disk real estate or resources and has a nifty "anti-wizard" to let novices quickly burn a music CD from collected MP3, WAV, or WMA files, duplicate an existing CD (whether you have 2 CD-ROM drives or just the one burner drive), burn a disc with data from your PC, or what Stomp calls a "DJ" burn. The DJ burn lets you drop audio files onto a disc from various sources and does not require you to burn and close the CD in one operation. This lets you add files to an ongoing CD over a period to time. The documentation is adequate and comes with a good glossary of CD burner terms. You can duck the anti-wizard and get to the full interface, which gives you a lot of control over what you're doing (as long as you actually do know what you're doing). Advanced features let you hook up externals sources (assuming your hardware supports this) and transfer your old vinyl LPs or cassette tapes to CD. Even hook up a video camera and burn your own video CDs.

Burning CDs, anti-wizard or no anti-wizard is still a tricky proposition, but Click 'N Burn does a great job of making it as straightforward as possible.

Click 'N Burn Pro retails for $50 (but Amazon has it for $40) and has all the usual bells and whistles along with an added CD labeling package (also by Stomp, Inc.) called CD Stomper Pro. This consists of eight CD labels, labeling software, and a gizmo upon which you set the peeled label then mount your burned disc. Push the plunger and you get the label centered on the face of the CD. Very neat.

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You can reach T.J. Lee at:
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