Prassi , this name might give a warm fuzzy feeling to CD recording veterans. Once the Prassi Primo family was probably the most powerfull recording software available and it was very popular with a relative small amount of CD Freaks. In 2001 the software company was sold to Veritas who sold it's recording software to Sonic in 2002.

Now the Prassi burning engine can be found in the Recordnow series from Sonic, so the Prassi company has always been around but has been developing an engine, not a consumer product. However, good news for Prassi fans,  users on our forum are now reporting that Prassi is back with a product aimed at consumers. The software is called ONES (Optical New Edge Storage) and distributed by Traxdata (and it seems mainly their French division).

The first reports of our users are promising. The software is 6 MB in size and is available for purchase at 15 EURO. A 60 day trial version can be downloaded to test it first. What makes this software 'special' is that it uses a technology that is named fuzzy logic. Fuzzy Logic is also used in many other technology products (even in washing machines) and is described as a problem solving method that provides a simple way to arrive at a definite conclusion based upon vague, ambiguous, imprecise, noisy, or missing input information and the methology can be compared on how a human would make a decision.

In this case mainly vague, imprecise and/or missing input could come in place as according to Prassi it is no longer using a predefined database to detect a drive, but gathering the information from the drive it self. So, concrete, the software will send an array of commands to the drive to see what it's capable of and then report back to the user what drive the user has and what it can do. Current software is based on a database of drives that are tested and then supported (software reads out the name of the drive and matches it with a predefined table that contains what it's able to do) . Besides the Fuzzy Logic approach, the software is also developed to become available on both Windows and Linux operating systems.

People who are intrested to try this software are encourage to download the trial, if you don't want to spend your precious bandwith on it then make sure you have first checked the screenshots posted by alien777. In this forum thread you can also read user experiences and share yours.

Source: Club CDFreaks.com