Since Tiger there’s been a utility called ‘drutil’ which is a tool to interact with CD/DVD burners. To use it you simply need to drop down the your favorite shell and type ‘drutil burn .cue’ and your off and running. Its an easy fix, but I always seem to forget the name of it when I need it so I figured I’d make a post for your and my sakes both. Enjoy!

From Slashdot:

According to News.com, Microsoft has had no plans to update or improve Windows Media Player and has instead thrown its weight behind a third party plugin to fill the void. Adam Anderson, Microsoft public relations manager, told News.com, ‘It’s basically a business decision for Microsoft. Like any other company, we have business priorities. Our focus really is in delivering the best experience to Windows customers.’

I for one am very excited to download and try this plug in and hopefullly rid my Mac Mini of the annoying Windows Media Player for Mac program/plugin (which rarely plays the streaming video files I want to see).

.bin/.cue files are a somewhat popular file format created by a Windows program called CDRWin. Unfortunately, these files are not well supported on non-windows operating systems. Fortunately enough there’s a program call bchunk which will convert these nasty files into an iso image. Compiling it is a cinch, and using it is a breeze. I had used this before in Linux about a year ago, and again just now on Mac OS-X and it works great!