CDR Media Code Identifier

CDR Media Code Identifier is a lightweight application that intends to provide you with details about a certain disc by reading the ATIP information. You can use this tool when you need to know more than what is printed on the plastic disc.

If you didn’t know, ATIP stands for Absolute Time in Pregroove and includes a bunch of useful details such as the manufacturer, disc type and dye type. By reading this data you can figure out the actual speed and spiral length if you care about that stuff.

This program is designed to access some of these details and display them in the main window. In fact, it displays the manufacturer, recording layer, media type, capacity and the reading speeds that can be used.

If the disk is properly detected, all the details can be copied to the clipboard in order to be used in other applications. When multiple discs are detected you can switch between them from the top panel.

Although casual users might not need to know these details, the program comes in handy when you need to verify the details that are printed on the case. This allows you to make sure that a drive supports a certain writing speed in order to prevent data loss.

Since the ATIP details are displayed only for recordable and rewritable CDs you can only use the program for this media type. However, these discs are widely used even if the DVD has taken most of the data storage market.