Me To A Tee

The other day I was downloading some shows to watch and as I had plenty of space in this months download cap I decided to grab a few complete series.

I’m usually pretty good about things like this, but I must have been half asleep or something cause it wasn’t until I’d downloaded all 8Gb or whatever it was that I realised  that the file was in  .daa format.

I fucking hate formats like this. it’s another format almost entirely for the sake of having another format just to call your own.  Seems to be the epitome of NIH syndrome.

I already have perfectly usable tools to handle my zips, my isos and any other format you generally get when torrenting. And most of them are fairly open and can be managed with whatever tool you happen to prefer.

Formats like daa (and uif the other big offender) aren’t/don’t/won’t/can’t/shouldn’t/haven’t/will never and a thousand and one other negatively charged synonyms.  To use them even just to “simply” extract them you need THEIR program and THEIR program alone.

Correction, you USED to.

A most fabulous individual by the name of Luigi Auriemma have come to the rescue of us all and provided two simple but beautiful little tools to do EXACTLY what most of us want to do with these files, get them into a format we can burn/mount/open as quickly and simply as possible.

His nifty little programs daa2iso and uif2iso live at Luigi’s MyToolz page.

So death t PowerISO and MagicISO and long live King Luigi!!!