nero or easy cd creator

[cricket]

is nero 5.5 or easy cd creator better for making cd's/dvd's?

[The Baron]

Nero. Or Alcohol 120%, but I need to play with that more (PSSST! REVIEW COPY!)

[sytaylor]

nero, its just i dunoo cleaner, better faster stronger :afro:

[Matthyahuw]

There's something other than Nero???

[saturnotaku]

I use both. Nero is great for making audio CD's with CD Text (thanks, Baron!). ECDC is fine for creating data CD as well as Mp3 CD's. Try them both and find out which one you like better.

[Greg]

Don't laugh, I use the CD writing capabilities built into WindowsXP to burn data CDs and audio CDs. Not very featured, but simple and it works.

Otherwise, I'd probably say go Nero. Have used both, perhaps not the latest versions of each and they do a great job with minor interface differences. A bunch of other shareware/commercial programs exist if you want even more choices, such as DiskJuggler and GoldenHawk (or something?).

[The Baron]

Matty--yeah, there's something other than Nero. Alcohol 120... imagine, if you will, a mix between Nero, CloneCD, and Daemon-Tools. Scary, ain't it? :p

And now you know why I want it. :p

[VeritechK7]

everyone starts out w/ adaptec. I did , ended up w/ nero :)

[StealthHawk]

Originally posted by VeritechK7
everyone starts out w/ adaptec. I did , ended up w/ nero :)

yeah. my new burner came with Nero. used to have Adaptec.

[The Baron]

Back when I had the $600 2x HP SCSI burner from Hell, I used Easy CD Creator to master CDs for computer books... :D

[VeritechK7]

ouch I didn't know that.. that bad eh? like what things did you have problems with?

[The Baron]

The big thing is that you can't make menus in Nero.

[netviper13]

Having used both, I definitely prefer Nero. You can just do so much with it, but can also keep it newbie friendly.

[PsychoSy]

I'm with Ed on this - both programs are fine depending on the project. Nero is just excellent and fast because it doesn't have eye-candy, unlike Roxio. However, if I'm burning a mix CD, Nero always puts that damned 2 second gap between tracks no matter I do so I use Roxio EZCD for mix and MP3 CDs.

The first MP3 CD I made with Nero was a disaster - I recovered about 90% of my MP3s I had burned but the remaining 10% couldn't be accessed because of CRC errors. Made me really hot because it was the last few MP3s on the CD...mainly Yes, Whitesnake and ZZ Top. :mad:

"Homeworld" survived but "Yours Is No Disgrace", "Roundabout", "Velcro Fly" and a few choice others didn't...:cry:

[The Baron]

Psycho--there's a way to fix that. I'll post it later, out the door right now...

[The Baron]

Basically, add your tracks, select them all in the Audio1 window, right click, go to Properties, and change Pause from 2 to 0.

Voila, no more pause. :p

[cricket]

Originally posted by madthumbs
Nero - does mp3 cd's, data cd's and much more... it does absolutely suck for dvd burning though. For that- Record Now Max.
you are absolutely right madthumbs....record now max is best for dvd's ..i cant get nero to make a dvd that will play in my stand alone dvd(for televison) player....think ill stay with record now max.

[VeritechK7]

is that free ? or "free"

[cricket]

if you mean "is record now max free"...no,but you can download a 30 day free (fully functional) copy from there web site. from here: http://www.stompinc.com/index.phtml?stp

[saturnotaku]

Originally posted by =SSC=The Baron
Basically, add your tracks, select them all in the Audio1 window, right click, go to Properties, and change Pause from 2 to 0.

But with ECDC, all you have to do is select Disc-at-once for recording audio CDs. And voila - no pause whatsoever. :p ;)