Multi-session CD Display

September 10th, 2004
Categories: Interface, OS X

For multi-session CDs, it might be nice if it was indicated that what appear as separate discs are just different “parts” of the same CD.

Multi-session discs with badges

  1. The numerical badging would be one possibility for optical media containing multiple data sessions. The image shows an enhanced CD only because I did not have a multi-session data CD. Different colors could be used if multiple discs were mounted.
  2. For enhanced CDs, the two different sessions could be badged with icons conveying some idea as to their contents (the badge icons are from GNOME’s emblems).

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2 Responses to “Multi-session CD Display”

  1. Seth, on September 11th, 2004 at 7:22 PM Said:

    How would 99% of users mount those CDs at the same time?

  2. Daniel J. Wilson, on September 11th, 2004 at 10:23 PM Said:

    Ninety-nine percent of users wouldn’t because like me, they only have one optical drive. I created a composite image just to illustrate the two different ideas next to one another.

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