Which is the best CD/DVD burning software?

[Rudra.J]

Guys vote for the best software for CD/DVD Burning.

Roxio Easy CD Creator :

Easy CD Creator was originally developed by Incat Systems SRL in Milan, Italy, whose owner, Fabrizio Caffarelli (now CEO of TVBLOB srl), moved the company to the US in late 1993, forming a US corporation (Incat Systems Software) headquartered in Campbell, CA. The first version of the software was programmed by just one person, by the name of Tony Davidson. In August, 1995, Adaptec purchased the company (taking on most of the US-based staff) and the Easy CD family of software.

On June 26, 1996, Adaptec purchased "Corel CD Creator" from Corel Corp. for a $12 million cash transaction. Adaptec then merged CD Creator's wizard driven GUI interface, and Easy CD Pro's burning engine to create "Easy CD Creator". Soon after, Adaptec also purchased the Toast family of Macintosh CD recording software from its creator/founder, Markus Fest (later founder of Elgato). All of these products were managed by the Adaptec Software Products Group (Adaptec SPG).

On May 11, 2001, Easy CD Creator changed ownership after Adaptec spun off SPG to create a newly formed, independent company called Roxio. On August 9, 2004, Easy CD Creator (now known as "Easy Media Creator") changed ownership a second time after Roxio sold its consumer software division and its name and identity ("Roxio") to Sonic Solutions for $80 million. "Roxio" became Napster (having bought the name and other odds and ends of the Napster brand at auction) to focus on its online music service.

Easy CD Creator versions 3 and 4 were under the Adaptec brand, and are supported on systems running Microsoft Windows versions up to Windows 2000, but not Windows XP. Version 5 did support Windows XP only after the 5.1 patch was applied. By version 6, the product was now named "Easy CD & DVD Creator" which included a new burning engine, code named "Dragon" which was used in the CD Copier portion of the software suite.

[Rudra.J]

Nero :

Nero is a popular software suite for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. The principal component of the software bundle is Nero Burning ROM. he following applications are included in Nero 9 :

Nero StartSmart

* Nero StartSmart: The central hub for utilizing various applications in Nero suite of applications. As of version 8, Nero SmartStart is able to perform several basic operations without launching any of Nero application, such as simple CD Burning.

[edit] Nero Disc Authoring Tools

* Nero Burning ROM: The well-known optical disc authoring program of Nero AG and one of its first products.
* Nero Express: A more simplified incarnation of Nero Burning ROM targeted for starter audience.
* Nero ImageDrive: Nero's virtual drive utility that allows users to mount their CD or DVD disk images into a virtual DVD drive and treat them like real media from within other Windows applications.
* Nero CoverDesigner: Enables users to design and print disc covers.
* Nero BurnRights: Enables administrators to assign required drive access rights to other users.
* Nero DiscSpeed: A disc speed measurement and performance diagnostic tool.
* Nero DriveSpeed: A utility for measuring and fine-tuning various aspects of disc writer drives.
* Nero Info Tool: Helps extracting valuable disc-authoring related system information.
* Nero DiscCopy Gadget: A Windows Vista Sidebar gadget that allows users to perform simple disc-burning operations quickly from Sidebar.
* Nero RescueAgent: Helps recovering files from damaged or partially-unreadable media and restoring files that were accidentally deleted.
* InCD: InCD is a packet writing software that allows optical discs to be used in a similar manner to a floppy disk.

[edit] Nero Entertainment Applications

* Nero ShowTime: Nero's powerful media player software capable of playing back various types of audio and video files and media, including Audio CDs, Video DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, Nero Digital movies and a wide range of Audio and Video files.
* Nero Live: A media center application for PCs and media center TVs capable of playing back various media in addition to tuning TV programs.
* Nero Live Gadget, a Windows Vista gadget that allows a smart version of Nero Live to run in Windows Vista Sidebar.

[edit] Nero Video Authoring Tools

* Nero Vision: Non-linear video editing tool capable of mixing video clips and authoring DVDs.[6]
* Nero Recode: Converts personal video files and non-copyrighted Video DVDs into Nero Digital format, which dramatically reduces their size while maintaining their quality.

[edit] Nero Audio Editing Tools

* Nero Wave Editor: Audio authoring tool capable of recording, trimming, filtering, mixing and exporting audio.
* Nero SoundTrax: Multi-track audio mixing tool capable of creating and exporting audio mixes.

[edit] Nero Photo Tools

* Nero PhotoSnap: Basic photo editing tool.
* Nero PhotoSnap Viewer: Basic photo viewing tool.

[edit] Other tools

* Nero BackItUp: Formerly a part of Nero suite, it has grown from a simple backup utility into a full-fledged backup solution.
* Nero Linux: A set of disc authoring tools for Linux based pcs. The interface is GTK+ based.

[Rudra.J]

CD Burner XP :

CDBurnerXP is an optical disc authoring software application for Microsoft Windows, written in Visual Basic .NET for the most part. It has international language support.

The program supports burning data on CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD as well as burning audio files (WAV, MP3, MP2, FLAC, Windows Media Audio, AIFF, BWF (Broadcast WAV), and Ogg Vorbis) in the Red Book format. ISO images can be burnt and created. It can burn UDF and/or ISO-9660 formats. Bootable data discs are supported as well.

CDBurnerXP Pro is freeware. It is closed source because it currently uses some proprietary libraries

[Rudra.J]

Deep Burner :

DeepBurner is a CD/DVD authoring program made by Astonsoft which supports CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM. Additionally it can create and burn ISO images. It is available in a free or pro version - the pro version includes features to burn specific types of discs, such as DVD movies, photo albums, as well as backup and disc duplication utilities.[1]

The free version is also available as a portable version which runs off a USB flash drive.

[Rudra.J]

Alcohol 120% :

Alcohol 120% is an optical disc authoring program and disk image emulator created by Alcohol Soft. Alcohol 120% began as a direct continuation of the Fantom DVD optical drive emulation software.[citation needed]

Alcohol 120% can also mount disc images, with support for their proprietary Media Descriptor Image (.mds/.mdf) disc image format.

In the newest version Alcohol 120% contains the A.C.I.D. Wizard "Alcohol Cloaking Initiative for DRM" (based originally on the Y.A.S.U. application).

These formats are supported by the image mounting feature of Alcohol 120% :

* .mds/.mdf, Media Descriptor Image file, (default)
* .ccd/.img/.sub, CloneCD Image File
* .cue/.bin, CDRWIN Image File
* .iso, Standard ISO Image file
* .bwt/.bwi/.bws, Blindread Image File
* .cdi, DiscJuggler Image File
* .nrg, Nero Burning ROM Image File
* .pdi, Instant CD/DVD Image File
* .b5t/.b5i, Blindwrite V5/V6 Image File (also .b6t/.b6i)
* .isz, UltraISO Image File

These formats are supported by the image making tool:

* .mds/.mdf, Media Descriptor Image file, (default)
o When making disk images of DVDs, Alcohol 120% only supports the .mdf/.mds format.
* .ccd/.img/.sub, CloneCD Image File
* .cue/.bin, CDRWIN Image File
* .iso, Standard ISO Image file

[Rudra.J]

MagicISO :

MagicISO (also referred to as MagicISO Maker) is a CD/DVD image shareware utility that can extract, edit, create, and burn disc image files. It is well known for its support and ability to convert between ISO and CUE/BIN and their proprietary UIF disc image format as well.

In addition to being able to edit the contents of the disc images without decompressing, it can make a disc image from an existing CD/DVD-ROM. Also, it can make bootable image files (file extension .bif). MagicISO can also mount disc images with the addition of MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD Manager.

The trial version cannot handle disc images larger than 300 Mb. MagicISO is currently produced by MagicISO, Inc. The Company's domain name is registered to an address in Shanghai, China.

MagicDisc

MagicDisc, sometimes known as MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD Manager is a freeware virtual drive counterpart to MagicISO. It is a separate download needed to mount discs virtually. MagicDisc can also decompress UIF images to ISO format.

Unlike MagicISO, MagicDisc does not have support for .daa files that were produced by PowerISO.

[edit] Universal Image Format

Universal Image Format or UIF is a proprietary disc image format for CDs and DVDs that uses compression created by MagicISO Inc.

Related file formats

* BIN/CUE
* BWT, BWI, BWS, BWA
* CCD/IMG/SUB
* CSO (.cso)
* DAA (.daa)
* MDF/MDS (.mdf)
* NRG (.nrg)
* DMG (Apple disk image) (.dmg)
* UIF (Universal Image Format) (.uif)
* IMA (.ima)
* IMG (.img)
* DK (.dk)
* WIM (.wim)

[Ettan]

According to me DeepBurner is the Best!
It does the job! No special effects! No animation & all those crap!

[CapriAnupam]

I use CDBurnerXP and it works great for me. One of the best in freeware burners.

[jbreg]

i vote to Deep Burner, because it is professional.