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For a few months now, I’ve been heckling Mac DVD burning software authors to provide full DVD+RW support (as in, the ability to append files to a burned DVD+RW, the way growisofs and its amazing front-end, k3b do on Linux). To no avail. I got all sorts of lame excuses, from lack of hardware support to no interest.

To spite those lazy burning application authors, I decided to do it myself. Using the freshly ported growisofs (lack of hardware support, hah), I wrote a horribleproof-of-concept application that was able to add files to the file system of a DVD+RW medium. When I discovered that the author of BurnAgain (which did what I wanted, only for CDs) lives only a few streets away from me, I immediately pitched my idea to him. And he agreed! I gave him my proof of concept, and now he has delivered a complete product: Behold the shiny BurnAgain DVD!

If you have a Mac, and are interested in DVD creation, you really should buy it (or give it a try, it comes with 20 trial burns). No other product (not the Finder, not Toast and certainly not Disco) can do what it does: Incrementally add files to a DVD medium.