The most popular CD/DVD writing software - Nero Burning ROM has evolved a lot from being a simple CD/DVD burner application to a full-fledged all-in-one optical media authoring solution, resulting in adding a lot of bloat and lots of other applications and features that you’ll never really use, so if you are looking to get rid of Nero bloatware and looking for a free, fast and simple alternative to Nero - BurnAware Free is your answer, the free CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning application is pretty much similar to Nero and comes in three versions - Free, Home & Professional, the free version allows you to burn data, audio, and video CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs pretty much sufficing everything you’d ever need.
BurnAware Free Version Features
- On-the-fly writing for all image types (no staging to hard drive first)
- Create data and multisession CD/DVD/Blu-ray Discs
- Create Audio CDs and jukebox CD/DVD/Blu-ray Discs
- Create DVDs-Video
- Create and burn disc images
- Supports all current hardware interfaces (IDE/SCSI/USB/1394/SATA)
- Supports all current hardware interfaces (IDE/SCSI/USB/1394/SATA)
- Supports UDF/ISO9660/Joliet Bridged file systems (any combination)
- Auto-verification of written files
- Clean, multilingual, easy to use interface
- Supports Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista (32 and 64 Bit), no drivers required
- 100% Free for home use. No spyware, malware, banners etc.
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