Has anyone figured out how to attach custom icons to CDs?

Well you could use Toast or you could try this:

Save your custom icon as a .icns file and drag it into your CD-R directory placing it at the root level. Now rename the file to .VolumeIcon.icns and burn your disc.

You might next wonder just how to save to an incs file 🙂

Before you rush out looking for some special software to do such You probably have something on-hand that will get the job done even if it doesn't show incs in the save dialog. Any software that will save/export to tiff is all you need.

Create/open the image in AI, PS or whatever you might have (Preview if you already have an image) and save/export as a your imagename.tiff

Then launch Terminal and type tiff2icns followed by a space and drag the tiff image file from Finder to the Terminal window. This should add the file's pathway to the command line. Press return. A file called your imagename.icns will appear in the same folder as the tiff image. Quit Terminal.

Lee C
"The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese." -- Willie Nelson
See the article Backup::Restore.

PS: The above creates a one size (32x32) icns file even if its a multi-layered tiff file. icns files can contain a 48, 32,16 and 128 sized versions all in the same file and depending where you use the icns file (check the icns file you're replacing) such may be needed. I haven't needed to create a multi-sized icns file yet, but I'll look into it 🙂

And now for the full nitty-gritty 🙂

Multi-sized icns file

Create tiff images in 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 and 128x128 bit sizes. You may also create 1 bit masks for the 16, 32 and 48 sizes (1 bit depth .bmp copies where black is hit area and white otherwise), or you can let the following utility do it for you.

In developer tools (free at Apple Developer Center) open the application /Developer/Applications/Utilities/Icon Composer and drag your respective tiff (and bmp if you chose to do them yourself) to the sized labeled boxes. Then save to Your_icon.icns and you've got it nailed.

The applicable developer instructions (which go further than you may need) can be found at:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/DesktopIcons/ch13.htm l

Lee C
"The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese." -- Willie Nelson
See the article Backup::Restore.

Toast is much easier. Here's how you do it in Toast:

1 Prepare your disc as you normally do.
2 Click More in the left drawer. The data disc settings dialog appears and the current disc icon is shown.
3 Change the disc icon. There are two ways to do this:
• Add a photo or other image file: Drag and drop a photo or other image file from your hard disk on top of the current disc icon in the data disc settings dialog in Toast.
• Copy an existing icon from a file or folder on your hard disk: Select the file or folder containing the icon you want to copy and choose File > Get Info. The Get Info window from the Finder appears. Click on the icon in the window and choose Edit > Copy. In the data disc settings dialog in Toast, click on the current disc icon and choose Edit > Paste.
4 Click OK.
5 Click the red Record button.

Hmmm..
..The way I have CDs with custom icons is this :-

1) Create a Disk Image
2) Double-click Disk Image, to mount Image
3) Open Get Info window of Image
4) Paste the custom icon
5) Double-click Image
6) Set views, etc
7) Drag Image to Toast
8) Burn CD

I've been doing this for years, with no problems


Is that any help ??

Peter

Lee,

Can you help with this ".VolumeIcon.icns" file. When I try to rename my xxx.icns file, I get an error message saying that "." files are reserved for the system. Also, where is the CD-R directory ?

I have tried all methods discussed in this string and none have worked.

Can I do this in finder, or do I have to use toast? I have never figured out what advantage Toast is over the OS X burner.

Thanks!!!

If you make a disk image, you don't need to use toast to burn it, you can use disk utility:

open disk utility, click burn in the toolbar

select your disk image in the open dialogue that is presented

set your burn options (speed, ect) & click burn

your done!