CD Burning?

[petertkalec]

Hi everyone,

I hope somebody will be able to suggest some CD/DVD burning software for me. It seems that everything is so cumbersome, and includes so many add-ons like media players and editors etc. Nero is a perfect example of a really great piece of software that has lately gotten completely out of control.

Any suggestions?

[dex Otaku]

I hope somebody will be able to suggest some CD/DVD burning software for me. It seems that everything is so cumbersome, and includes so many add-ons like media players and editors etc. Nero is a perfect example of a really great piece of software that has lately gotten completely out of control.

For audio CD creation, I use dedicated software such as CD Architect.

I still use Nero for most other burning needs. I just do a custom install, omit the components I don't need, and open Nero directly rather than using the wizards [which just annoy me].

[smkranz]

I likewise use Nero (ver. 6) for CD and DVD burning, and music file editing.

The product I was using prior to Nero, primarily for compiling and burning DVDs, was Pinnacle Studio (v. 8, I believe) which I ordered (not knowing any better) with the Gateway 'puter I bought 4-5 years ago now. That software was without a doubt the most unstable POS I ever tried to love, and was responsible for:

* high blood pressure;

* grey hairs;

* the loss of *at least* three years from my life expectancy;

* routine system freezes and crashes;

* many (many) silver coasters (i.e. bad/corrupted/unplayable burns).

The only thing I miss about Pinnacle Studio is that it had extremely flexible DVD menu capabilities (when it worked). With Nero, I have yet to figure out a way to create a DVD menu that doesn't use thumbnails (i.e. pictures), rather than just letting me create a list of titles. Maybe the new version 7 does, I dunno? It also doesn't allow you to use different fonts/colors for different menu elements.

I guess Nero could be considered "bloated" with a bunch of stuff you might not want. But it is rock-solid, seems fairly intuitive to me and it does what I ask it do reliably and quickly. So as Dex suggests, just don't install those things you don't want.

BTW, in case you haven't played with it, the single coolest program I use, which works very nicely in tandem with Nero, is a freebie called DVD Shrink which is still widely available. [i suppose DVD Shrink is now considered *verboten* because it allows you to make backup copies of *most* commercial DVDs by circumventing those gnarly copy protection schemes...which I must say it does very effectively...] You can backup an entire disc, or "reauthor" it and only take the parts you want, and either burn them onto recordable media at customizable compression ratios, with excellent results, or write them to a folder on your computer for later use. If you have Nero installed, DVD Shrink automatically hooks into Nero's burning engine and...it's just a beautiful thing.

Totally off topic, I guess, but I'd read somewhere that the fella who wrote DVD Shrink...from Denmark or Germany or somewhere...actually went to work for Ahead Software (developers of Nero) which is when further development of DVD Shrink came to a schreeching halt.

[Stuge]

Hey Why don`t you use Nero 6 ...

[tekdroid]

Any suggestions?

http://www.deepburner.com

Also check out the Portable version if burning on other computers quickly and without fuss is important to you

Edit:

Also check out:

http://www.burrrn.net

for Burrrn

Great audio burning utility. Free.

High usability. Lightweight. Great for audio stuff.

Edited May 13, 2006 by tekdroid