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Looking into a CD/DVD Burner

rahtgazrahtgaz
edited February 2009 in Chit chat
Can you folks give me some advise?
I'm searching for a (preferably free) simple CD/DVD burner to replace Nero. No big features. Just basic burning functionality. It however needs to be reliable. Say, one coaster every 50 burns.

This is what I need:

- Burn several CD/DVD formats and sizes
- Burn from images
- Burn bootable CD/DVD
- Burn multisession CD/DVD
- Support for UDF/Joliet/ISO9660
- Burn verification step

This is what I don't need:
- blu-ray
- video or sound related features

What are you ladies and gentleman using? And how happy are you?

EDIT:
Oh, for Windows XP and and absolutely no special drivers needed.
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  • The PresidentThe President
    edited February 2009
    rahtgaz wrote: »
    Can you folks give me some advise?
    I'm searching for a (preferably free) simple CD/DVD burner to replace Nero.
    :
    What are you ladies and gentleman using? And how happy are you?

    cdrecord or wodim - very happy.
    rahtgaz wrote: »
    Oh, for Windows XP and and absolutely no special drivers needed.

    Oh...try ImgBurn.
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited February 2009
    Free CD/DVD burner?

    I use Nero...
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  • ewgfewgf
    edited February 2009
    rahtgaz wrote: »
    Can you folks give me some advise?
    I'm searching for a (preferably free) simple CD/DVD burner to replace Nero.

    Sorry mate, I can't help, but why replace Nero? Nero does everything you could ask for, surely?

    If you have a specific need that Nero doesn't address, then hopefully either someone on here, or google.com can help, but if you're having trouble with Nero then please feel free to post any problems - I'm no expert but I've used it a lot and I might be able to help, and others on here are much more knowledgable than me, so we might be able to help.
  • rahtgazrahtgaz
    edited February 2009
    Nero could be fine for my desktop. It came with Nero 7. However trying any upgrade on it is a no-no. Last time I did it, took 1 hour to download and 4 hours to install. No, I'm not kidding. Not happy with that, it also ignored my previous installation setup and installed the whole package when I only had the Express Essentials package installed.

    "If you don't like it, don't use it". I'm following that.

    In any case, there's also the matter of my 512Mb laptop where I would like to replace Nero for something more lightweight. But i'm considering the possibility of changing this machine to a full linux installation. So that may not be much of an issue anymore.
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited February 2009
    I think ImgBurn does everything you've asked and it's free. I've been using it for a couple of years now and never had any problems with it. I got rid of Nero after the last one I installed took up a ridiculous amount of gig.
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  • rahtgazrahtgaz
    edited February 2009
    Okies. Thanks. I'll be trying imgBurn.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited February 2009
    I use that imgburn too, it's really quite good for sniding PS1 games (not that I would ever condone such evil behaviour) :lol:
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  • guesserguesser
    edited February 2009
    careful, you'll go blind....

    oh that's not what you meant
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited February 2009
    I have a relevant question.

    Soon I will be upgrading my PC. Modern motherbords now come with about 6 Sata2 interfaces, but only one dual channel IDE.

    Are new CD Roms etc now comming with Sata Interfaces?

    Would I be better ditching my IDE cd/dvd devices for one with an Sata 2 interface?
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  • zx1zx1
    edited February 2009
    karingal wrote: »
    Free CD/DVD burner?

    I use Nero...

    Same here. I don't use anything else. I'm not sure if Nero supports blu-ray. My brother has had problems burning stuff onto blu-ray discs
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  • rahtgazrahtgaz
    edited February 2009
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    I have a relevant question.

    Soon I will be upgrading my PC. Modern motherbords now come with about 6 Sata2 interfaces, but only one dual channel IDE.

    Are new CD Roms etc now comming with Sata Interfaces?

    Would I be better ditching my IDE cd/dvd devices for one with an Sata 2 interface?

    Computers will carry the ATA/ATAPI interfaces for a long time, still. Unless you go specifically for motherboards without this interface, any generic board still have it -- and will for a long time since devices are still being built for this interface (CD/DVD players, tape drives). The standard is also by no means dying. It's still being developed and new proposals being discussed.

    If you still have ATA/ATAPI CD-ROM players, use them. I see no reason to spend money on a SATA device, when in all honesty you will gain no advantage from it. Current ATA/ATAPI CD maximum speed is already excellent. Any gain would be negligible for most uses. The same doesn't hold however for hard drives or flash memory cards, for instance, where SATA does introduce many advantages in terms of speed, capacity and even hot swapping.
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited February 2009
    zx1 wrote: »
    Same here. I don't use anything else. I'm not sure if Nero supports blu-ray. My brother has had problems burning stuff onto blu-ray discs
    It's more of a question of what Nero doesn't support...
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  • rahtgazrahtgaz
    edited February 2009
    I believe Nero does support blu-ray. But through a plugin. Check http://www.nero.com/enu/bluray-disc-authoring-plugin.html
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited February 2009
    rahtgaz wrote: »
    Computers will carry the ATA/ATAPI interfaces for a long time, still. Unless you go specifically for motherboards without this interface, any generic board still have it -- and will for a long time since devices are still being built for this interface (CD/DVD players, tape drives). The standard is also by no means dying. It's still being developed and new proposals being discussed.

    If you still have ATA/ATAPI CD-ROM players, use them. I see no reason to spend money on a SATA device, when in all honesty you will gain no advantage from it. Current ATA/ATAPI CD maximum speed is already excellent. Any gain would be negligible for most uses. The same doesn't hold however for hard drives or flash memory cards, for instance, where SATA does introduce many advantages in terms of speed, capacity and even hot swapping.

    Great, a little saving for me then.

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    My current PC was built by me in 2003, with only extra memory and a new HD in the intervening time. So its about time. Though I'm allowed as many free copies of Vista for my machines as I need I will not let it near, I'm still gunna stay with XP and maybe try Linux again.
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  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited February 2009
    Since upgrading to a new base unit late last year, I've been using Ashampoo Burning Studio 2009. It' a free download, but I got mine on the free CD on PC Pro (subscribed and got three issues for a quid before cancelling the subscription).

    I really can't recommend it enough. The interface looks and feels like Nero, and it hasn't given me a duff burn yet, and I get through quite a few disks.

    Well worth a look even if you eventually don't stick with it.
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