How to burn BIN / CUE images on Mac OS X

by Oscar Sodani

December 6, 2006

Oscar Sodani is a founder of Help2Go and owner of Help2Go Networks, an IT consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area. Oscar holds the CISSP certification as well as industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Novell.

Files with a .bin or .cue extension are CD Images, that is, an entire CD condensed into a single file for easy burning and handling. The BIN/CUE format is used by a popular shareware CD burning software called CDRWin. Of course, CDRWin is a Windows-only program. So what if you, like me, have made the switch to Mac OS X and need to access all of those BIN/CUE images you made? We found a free utility that can help.

Unfortunately, the Mac OS X Disk Utility does not support either BIN or CUE files. So we'll have to turn to third-party software. The very popular Toast can handle these files, but it is expensive. We found a free software utility called Burn. Burn can handle BIN and CUE files with ease, and this freeware program is small and fast.

The first step is to download Burn. It comes in a ZIP file. Once you've downloaded it, just extract the contents. Open the Burn folder, and you'll see the Burn application icon right in there. You can run Burn right there. or copy it to your Applications folder.

Once you run Burn, it's a simple matter of selecting the CUE file you want to burn, along with it's associated BIN file. Burn does the rest!

It's fast, small, and free - and a great alternative to Toast.

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