Every other day we need to write or burn something on a CD or DVD, may it be videos, music, documents, presentations or something else. Most of us use Nero CD/DVD burner to write documents since it’s pretty effective and feature rich. However, it comes very expensive with a lots of features that we barely use. It consumes a lots of space on our hard disk and uses a lots of resources while burning CDs/DVDs. Here is the best 5 Nero alternative CD/DVD burners that comes for free.
InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning software with a wide range of powerful features and easy-to-use user interface.
- Write data, audio and record them to physical discs as well as disc images
- Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs, disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE)
- Option to erase rewritable discs using four different methods
- Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc)
- Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
Ultimate CD/DVD Burner is an another freeware CD and DVD burning tool using which you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.
- Supports internal and external USB 2.0 and FireWire) CD/DVD writers
- Burn data, copy discs and create backups easily
- Make stunning photo CD albums
- Option to create ISO CDs easily
- Advanced options for experienced users
3. CD Burner XP
CDBurnerXP can burn CDs and DVDs, Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs, ISOs on a multilanguage interface. This freeware is one of the best and handy CD/DVD burning softwares.
- Supports disc burning of audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks
- Data verification, bootable disc, multi-language interface support
- Burn, create and convert ISO files from bin- and -nrg files
- Compatible with Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista, 2008, Win 7
4. ImgBurn
ImgBurn is a lightweight CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray burning tool with various features that you should have on your computer.
- Supports BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI formats
- Burn Audio CDs via DirectShow/ACM (Supports AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA, WV formats)
- Build DVD, HD DVD video discs, Blu-ray video discs easily
- Options to write images files to disk, wrire files/folders to disk, create image file from disk, create image file from files/folders, verify disk
- Compatible with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
5. BurnAware
BurnAware Free is ideal for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, MP3 music, DVD-Video discs and burning disc images.
- Create data, bootable, multi-session, audio, MP3 CD/DVD/Blu-ray Discs
- Ability to create DVD-Video, record boot disc images
- Supports all image formats, CD-Text and unicode characters
- Auto-verification of written files once burning process is completed
- Compatible with Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7
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