If You Ever Need A Free CD/DVD Burning Software

1525 days ago

Take a look here. That’s 10 free CD/DVD burning software for you to try out! Sure, all of us have used Nero before and found that it works well. And we...

Take a look here. That’s 10 free CD/DVD burning software for you to try out! Sure, all of us have used Nero before and found that it works well. And we get so used to using Nero that we don’t really want to try out other software. Well, I think we should. Nero is a paid software and the next DVD burner your purchase may not come with Nero. This will certainly cause a lot of problems if you aren’t used to the new interface. Plus, Nero is very much a bloatware. It takes up a lot of space and have tons of useless features and may be sluggish on low end PCs. I am sure that those 10 free CD/DVD burning software would not be as resource hungry as Nero. I always like lean software which doesn’t tax the resources too much.

Basically, what a CD/DVD burning software should have is data burning, CD/DVD duplication, audio CD/DVD creation and video (VCD/DVD Video) conversion. The others are just extras to most people and most people seldom use them at all. In fact, most people use their burners to make backups of your CDs/DVDs.

My favourite is InfraRecorder, as it is completely open source and has a good number of features to boot. However, I found that it has some problems with certain drives, especially when doing DVD burning. But with the latest version, I think quite a lot of bugs have been patched and it should be quite stable. From what I know, it doesn’t support Blu-Ray or HD DVD either. Too bad. However, from the list, there are a few free software which can support Blu-Ray and HD DVD like StarBurn & BurnAware. Now, that’s impressive for free software. We usually think of such free software as perhaps something with less features than a commercial one, but that’s not always true. Sometimes, free software can even have more features than their commercial counterparts.

I think I will be doing some testing on these software in the near future. They do look very good as alternatives to Nero. Not to say that Nero is a bad software, but it is always good to have alternatives and I am a sucker for testing out new software. I like to try new things! Especially those that are free. If you know any other free CD/DVD burning software, please give me a hoot and I will put them down on my list to test out.