Best CD/DVD burning software?

[Rakeesh]

What is the best cd/dvd burning software these days? I used to swear by nero, but every release after 6.0 has just been one big bloated mess.

I just want something simple. Burns disc images, burns music, burns dvd video, and burns files. I don't like it when they try to manage your movies and music for you and become an all in one multimedia center app like nero does now. I just want to burn discs and nothing else. Preferably something powerful like nero used to be (e.g. supports a bunch of different image formats) just without all the bloat and unneeded multimedia garbage.

[nekrosoft13]

doesn't nero only support NRG and ISO?

very simple and good software is imgburn, some people don't like it because they feel it is to simple

[Rakeesh]

doesn't nero only support NRG and ISO?

very simple and good software is imgburn, some people don't like it because they feel it is to simple

It supported bin/cue as well. I'll give imgburn a try though. I remember it from a while back it only used to burn a few different image formats (used to use it for those specialized formats, e.g. ccd images and whatnot) but didn't allow you to build your own discs from scratch.

Seems not only does it do that now but also allows you to burn video_ts folders to make a movie dvd as well.

[Bigbuck]

I use ImgBurn and haven't had any problems with it. If you do come up with a bad burn or the program is just finicky, just burn at the lowest speed and it should fix it. Most of my burning is Steam game backups so I have no experience with actual DVD's.

[ATi]

is imgburn better than PowerISO?

[nekrosoft13]

It supported bin/cue as well.

ok that 3 image types of nero, 3 = a bunch now?

imgburn really supports a bunch
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9832/clipboard01icp.jpg

[nekrosoft13]

is imgburn better than PowerISO?

PowerISO is a good program, but as far as burning is concerned imgburn is better.

[crainger]

I can't do without my imgburn.

[Rakeesh]

ok that 3 image types of nero, 3 = a bunch now?

No it did more than that, just those are the 3 I commonly used.

[nekrosoft13]

not sure when it did more, even if it did, version 9 of nero only does those 3

[qube]

try alkohol 120%

[Greg]

For me:

Best free: ImgBurn http://www.imgburn.com/
Best paid: Ashampoo Burning Studio http://www.ashampoo.com/frontend/products/php/product.php?session_langid=2&idstring=2210

ImgBurn does most jobs.

Burning Studio has tons of features and very simple interface. Allows things like editing .ISOs, Multisession discs, quick movie editing for home made DVD etc. (I do own it, and I have no affiliation with them.)

[K007]

hmm i should add imgburn to my list...

hvn't burned much discs tho...but nero tends to be just a bit chunky...

[Thunderbolt56]

I burn maybe 1 CD/DVD every month or so these days. Nero works fine for me.

[ATOJAR]

Another vote for ImgBurn here, I also use Nero 9.

I don't usually burn alot of CD's/DVD's either.

[FastRedPonyCar]

can imgburn make video dvd's the way nero does? like drop the vob files into the videoTS folder and burn a dvd that will work on any dvd player?

[Monolyth]

I use CDBurnerXP even on Windows 7 ;)

[FastRedPonyCar]

Imgburn can't burn dvd videos.. like drop the vob files into the videoTS folder and burn a dvd that will work on any dvd player?

or will it work if I just create a videots folder and that work?

[shilk]

Works fine. Depends on the .vob files though. If they're unlinked and stuff, I'm not sure how it's going to work, but everything you need to know on how to do it that way is on their forum. :) It can even detect DivX videos and arrange them specifically so you can play it on a DivX DVD player.