AuthorScript Audio is a full-featured, scalable "rip and burn" SDK for audio that also integrates comprehensive management and archiving of generic data. With support for advanced features including CD Text, ISRC, and Windows Media DRM, AuthorScript Audio is optimized for creation of compliant, compatible Audio CDs and is ideal for applications and services such as online music retailing and point-of-purchase audio kiosks. Available for Windows, Linux (CE), and Macintosh, AuthorScript Audio offers developers a fast, versatile solution for audio and data recording, copying, and archiving.
AuthorScript Audio SDKs offer the following key advantages over competing disc-burning solutions:
- Reliability:
- 24/7 uptime assurance (no machine lock ups)
- device access protection shields operations in progress from outside interference
- Performance:
- multiple threads on a single process allow concurrent burns to different devices
- file system is cached, then flushed in one sequential write, avoiding incremental updates
- native 32-bit and 64-bit binaries
- Real-Time To Disc (RTTD):
- record direct to disc in real time (streaming)
- write to a file without knowing total data size in advance
- Entry-based mastering:
- write either complete directories or individual files
- use callbacks to control timing and flow of data transfer
- File system control:
- create and manipulate file system objects
- easily migrate products based on standard file system calls
- Device support:
- SilentSelect™ automatically supports new optical devices without ongoing application maintenance
- Multiple language support:
- native C++ interface
- managed .NET interface for C#, J#, and Visual Basic
- Java interface
- Built-in diagnostics:
- bus tracing and logging
- API tracing and logging