Disclosure: I'm the developer. It's $4.99, one-time. I built it with AI assistance; every line was reviewed, and it's been tested on real discs and real players.

I used Burn for years, but it hasn't kept up with current macOS, and burning from Music means importing everything into your library first (and converting FLAC before it'll take it at all). So I built Pregap: a native audio CD burner that does one thing properly.

- **Straight from your files.** Drop in files, folders or playlists: FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, or anything else macOS can decode. Nothing gets imported into a library, and your originals aren't touched.

- **Gapless.** It always burns disc-at-once, with no gap between tracks unless you add one, so live albums and mixes play straight through.

- **CD-Text.** Track and artist names come from your tags, and you can edit any of them in place. Car stereos, hi-fi decks and CDJs that read CD-Text show them (tested on a CDJ-800MK2 and a CDJ-1000MK3).

- **No coasters.** It checks the drive, the disc, the running time and every file before it starts, and won't begin a burn it can't finish.

- **Native.** Swift and SwiftUI on Apple's own DiscRecording framework, with zero third-party dependencies. Universal, sandboxed, no network access, about 6 MB, no accounts, no subscription.

Needs macOS 14 or later and any USB CD burner.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/pregap/id6814982070

Website and guides: https://pregap.app

Early feedback is already shaping the next update: a bigger Burn button, verify after burning, and previewing tracks before you burn. I'd love to hear what else you'd want.

“And it’s only $9.99. Feel free to checkout my project GitHub where you’ll find 25 commits made within the last day, consisting of 1 x 300 file commit followed by 24 tweaks to try and make it less like Claude vomited everywhere.

I’ll be here to argue with anyone who can genuinely write code for the next hour. Then I’ll be gone for a week and then I’ll start a new post about it.

Disclaimer: Claude did everything but I promise I code reviewed all 32,768 lines of code.”

I’m tired boss.

I’m done with this sub.