Virtual CD

CD/DVD Drive Emulator

Our Rating: (Excellent)

Virtual CD provides 200x speed and noiseless CD/DVD access without the physical drive. No need to insert a CD and no more tiresome CD swapping. Virtual CD copies CD/DVDs to your hard-disk using efficient compression algorithms, providing virtual CD drives on your Windows desktop. It also supports MP3 compression, you can gain up to 95 percent free space for audio CD compression. Laptop users save precious battery energy and can use additional equipment instead of the physical CD-ROM, since there is no need to carry an external CD drive and the media. Virtual CD supports CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD Video (if not CSS encrypted), Video CD, Photo CD, Extra CD, Mixed Mode CD, CDI and Audio CD including CD Text! Almost any existing CD title is supported thanks to the new RAW mode read-out method including sub-channel information. The Multi-session Virtual CD Editor allows to create personalized CD images, which can be useful to test CD-R projects before wasting CD-R media. This CD emulator also offers CDDB support, and optional password protection as well as keyboard shortcuts. The program is network enabled, you can store virtual CD images on a server and then access them from a workstation.

Free Trial, $39.95 to buy