Comments on: Ask The Readers: Best Free Burning Software

By: Tzolis

Tzolis — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:07:33 +0000

Imgburn. Just started to test free alternatives to Nero. Small, fast AND it can burn images OTHER than .iso only… (e.g. .cue which is very popular too).
Of course I haven’t tested them all :p

By: How To Burn Disk Images

How To Burn Disk Images — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:17:35 +0000

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By: shibu

shibu — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:26:54 +0000

ashampoo has problems with long folder names

By: Mosey

Mosey — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:39:52 +0000

@Angelo.R: Thank you for the explanation :) It really helps!

By: Lorissa

Lorissa — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:50:11 +0000

@Angelo R. – Full

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:54:43 +0000

I’m still using Nero 6. I got some other “spare” burners, but still no-one impress me to move from Nero.

By: Angelo R

Angelo R — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:38:46 +0000

@Lorissa – do you use the full version of Nero? Or the software that came with your computer/drive.

By: Lorissa

Lorissa — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:11:13 +0000

Nero! As the saying goes, 150 million @/%$*&@)!( can’t be wrong!

@/%$*&@)!( = replace with any word you deem appropriate. lol :)

By: Angelo R

Angelo R — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:04:41 +0000

@Mosey – It really depends on your DVD player. Some of the “newer” ones are DivX compatible, and in those ones you can just burn .avi files to DVD and have them play. Otherwise, you’ll have to convert all of your movies/videos to DVD format, which essentially separates the audio and video into .vob files. Once you have them converted into that format, you can even burn them as data and it will still work.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:10:15 +0000

I’m like you – I just use Nero because it’s always there! I’ve tried ImgBurn, Infrarecorder,Starburn, CdBurner XP Pro, Burnaware, Deepburner, Finalburner and the only one that came close was Ashampoo.

By: GRTerrero

GRTerrero — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:09:16 +0000

For DVDs, I use Vista’s native Windows DVD Maker. It’s slow, but it has beautiful menus and the results are always flawless.

For CD burning, I will use any program that will allow custom mixing of music files.

By: Mosey

Mosey — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:41:13 +0000

Are these all softwares that can be used to burn a DVD to play in a DVD player as well?

By: kevinn

kevinn — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:54:09 +0000

ImgBurn… full featured and easy to use.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:49:11 +0000

I use BurnAware Free Edition, and I like it, and it has a nice easy to use interface.

By: Famf

Famf — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:44:21 +0000

Infrarecorder is great. I have had no problems with it. It can burn images, but I like IMGburn more for that.

By: jakfolio

jakfolio — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:32:35 +0000

You must try Ashampoo Burner Free Edition v6 or v7 (latest) edition with more features.

However, IME you’ll find it hard to find an alternative to Nero Ultra Edition.

By: George

George — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:08:12 +0000

PowerLaser Express..no installation

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:28:03 +0000

ImgBurn

By: Bruno 'ReX' Barbieri

Bruno 'ReX' Barbieri — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:16:05 +0000

ImgBurn, burn images and FILES.

By: Hz

Hz — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:47:38 +0000

I’ve been very happy using ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/). It’s fast and has a simple interface. Once installed, you can right-click on image files and start the burn right from there. And you can easily create an image from individual files for later (or immediate) burning. (Yes, I know I sound like a commercial… I swear I’m just a user of the software and not the author ;) )