short Burning Sortware review

[Lord of Sound]

Nero

First thing first a monster. If you ask about burning soft, first reply you hear is Nero. Using it feels as if you entered the store to buy some cigarettes, but instead you find circus, with jugglers

and magicians in there. Who needs all that crap when all you want is to burn some information on the disk. There is nothing easy about this program, since it tries to include all the multimedia functions, it became hard to do the main purpose of the program. Really it is as good as anything else. The price tag also scares you away, 3 times more expensive than any other program for this purpose.

http://www.nero.com/ena/nero9-introduction.html

Express Burn

Simple and has everything you need to burn. My personal choice for those 2 reasons and the fact that I can also run it on mac, so I don't have to switch to PC every time.

http://www.nch.com.au/burn/plus.html

Roxio Creator

Same thing as Nero only for 10 bucks extra. Edit movies like a pro, and other ad's on their page. Basically they claim that it is Final Cut/Photoshop, which happened to be also able to burn disks. I'm not buying it, what about you?

http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/creator/...e/overview.html

Burn Pro

Same as Express Burn with the only difference, using same drive and same dvd's I had 3 errors in burning during a week of using it.

http://www.mp3editorpro.com/burnpro/index.htm

[jaclaz]

An even shorter review:

IMGBURN:

http://www.imgburn.com/

tiny, freeware, portable across systems:

ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS's - Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.

jaclaz

[Lord of Sound]

Well it's not about how many programs you put in there, now is it?

I've tried ImgBurn, Final Burner, DeepBurner Free Portable, BurnAware, CDBurnerXP, Disk Master, InfraRecorder, Star Burn and Ultimate CD/DVD Burner among freeware programs and ended up picking Express Burn among them coz it was simply faster and I loved that Express works with Windows starting from 98 (you need a win95 support? ), and mac.

I wanted to but a free program compared to 100 bucks "media center tools" and see if I want to pay this hundred bucks.

And who would read 3 page review of burners anyway?

Edited March 25, 2009 by Lord of Sound

[frodo]

Im with jaclaz, imgburn is great

Id also add burnaware free edition is great as well, never burned a bad CD/DVD with either of them

[jaclaz]

Well it's not about how many programs you put in there, now is it?

No, it's about user's experience and opinions, everyone has his own preferences and reasons to prefer one or the other app.

I've tried ImgBurn, Final Burner, DeepBurner Free Portable, BurnAware, CDBurnerXP, Disk Master, InfraRecorder, Star Burn and Ultimate CD/DVD Burner among freeware programs and ended up picking Express Burn among them coz it was simply faster and I loved that Express works with Windows starting from 98 (you need a win95 support? ), and mac.

Good.

I tested many more than that and find imgburn perfect for my uses/needs, due to it's portability and small size.

FYI :

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4398

jaclaz

[spacesurfer]

No, it's about user's experience and opinions, everyone has his own preferences and reasons to prefer one or the other app.

Yup! I use InfraRecorder because it comes in x64 variety. Haven't seen others in that variety. However, it's not perfect. Had issues with burning a UDF image.

Basically, your list of "reviews" falls short on the number of programs out there.

[Ponch]

portability and small size

SilentNight MicroBurner is not bad either as ver5.0 is 1.2Meg. If I may add. Later versions are a bit nagging (free ... trials). It may lack some features of ImgBurn but does the basics.

[Lord of Sound]

Generally, what I can see from this tread straight away is that there are 3 main criteria used when picking a burning soft.

1) It has to be free (hey who wants to pay $100 for Nero))

2) If you need a portable version.

3) What OS are you using.

My review is not full, I just wanted to post it around so maybe someone would avoid paying money for the soft that is already free.

Other people interested, I'm sure can write a couple of lines about the program they use and what makes it so special

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