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New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc


Since you’re burning audio data to create the visual image, you can’t also store data, etc.

This is because the process burns an ‘audio track’ as the visual app’s output, meaning there’s no room left for files, archives, or anything else you may care to store on a CD in 2025. You may like Many optical media users in previous decades will have noticed that it was sometimes possible to see if a blank disc had any data written to it because the uniform reflective surface changed after writing. Once the image has been positioned (click and drag) and scaled (mouse wheel) satisfactorily, it is time to move on to the create track option in the Edit menu.

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