Best Free CD / DVD Burning Software

Burnaware can't copy .So it's kind of useless for me.Also it's slow.Imgburn is my favourite by far from this list

My friend tried to burn DVD with InfraRecorder. It failed miserably.

For me, Burnaware is just fine.

jean.denis "Infrarecorder will be part of our June testing"

What happened?

This is a great article as usual. Thanks for the great list to investigate. I have a couple of favourites myself...
DVD shrink - fantastic for taking a dvd movie from a dvd disc to your computer to burn. (which you have mentioned) How to use dvd shrink

DVD decrypter - Which does the same thing as Dvd shrink but is better at bypassing the copyright protection. (maybe thats why you didn't mention it) How to use Dvd decrypter

With these programs you can backup your wedding DVD or even a movie you have purchased. But just be aware that every country has a different copyright law. Check yours out before making copies of anything. (except your wedding video)

BURNAWARE IS KING!

CDBurnerXP have a portable version : http://cdburnerxp.se/downloads/portable/

wow im really surprised to not see starburn up there omg that program is excellent and I sware it has all the core features you need without the hefty price.

there are more freeware nero alternatives

http://www.bildirgec.org/yazi/nero-ve-alternatifi-ucretsiz-7

site is in turkish but we do care about the programs :)

CDBurnerXP has just mythological reputation on the Internet as reliable perfect etc. burner. The reality is that it is unreliable buggy unlogically organized. It freezed my computer, destroyed a few cds before I finally decided to unistall and forget about it till next year when I will try a better version (if comes out).

I liked alot the CDBurnerXP, but it doesn't verify the cd/dvd after recording an ISO. I think that option should be available.

BurnAware Free just try

CDBurnerXP, for whatever reason, worked poorly for me on a Vista system. The problem was mainly the audio CDs I produced with it on a system with ample memory and processing power (and no other apps running during the burn), even though my CD burner was writing at below its top speed. As far as I know, there is nothing wrong with the CD/DVD writer. Especially recently, my audio CDs would come out with blips and skips on the tracks and extra long periods of silence being added to the end of the tracks. Data CDs were, to my knowledge, okay, but I don't burn many of those (and don't always check every single file after I do).

The other thing I noticed about CDBurnerXP was that with the CDs and DVDs I was using, it would miscalculate the time left when burning audio discs. If the software thinks you've exceeded the space on the disc for burning, it won't burn until you remove from your project the remaining files that it thinks don't fit. This probably had something to do with the fact that it was automatically adding long blank sections to the end of some tracks and factoring that in before the burn--I really don't know. But I obviously ended up having to abandon this app.

JetBee free

I've tried CDBurnerXP, infraburner, Deepburner, imgburn, iso burner, etc and. I found all of them to be lacking in at least one area including usability, features, buggy performence, etc.

I've got to agree with Ashampoo free being the best and easiest to use freebie I've tried so far. If I was going to install a free burner on a non power users PC this is the one to use.

-J

Maybe there should be a list of best software review/download sites!!! Oh wait... download.com (http://www.download.com/3055-2094_4-10847734.html?tag=pdl-redir) and most of the other popular sites have the categories broken down for: freeware, WIN or Mac... mobile, webware, & games...Editors picks, most popular, etc. etc. as you can see on the bottom of the page url I listed above. Not knocking you guys but there seems to be too much disagreement between your choices of "best" and those of the commentators??? Your "top" video editor page has only one choice: Virtual Dub...why??? I tried a few of your "top-picks" out of curiousity and didn't agree. Of course I do "buy" software when I really need it and there are always Utorrent/Mininova downloads where you can get the "big-boys" versions when cash is short, LOL. You'll find DVDFab5 there (full version)...just scan all your downloads with Kaspersky, etc... Which you can get there as well. Sorry for ranting (newbie here) but I hope you do a revamp of your reviews...categorized and unbiased...or maybe list the better sites where people can download free/share ware...Kinda like a review of the "reviewers. Cheers : )

I've just tryied five burners and the winner is ASHAMPOO BURNING STUDIO 6 v6.71
A freeware product with all the major possibilities everybody needs with a user friendly interface Please try it (softpedia). The second one is ImgBurn but it is not very simple to ad files in the window
Others are not finished , many had problems with the burn engine (freeze, bugs ,shutdown etc...)CD Burner XP Pro IS NOT the best thing (2 install 2 freezing )A pretty interface is not enough

IMHO there aren't any *really* good free burners out there. Which is crazy considering how long we have had burnable CDs/DVDs... I've tried quite a few but I have to keep coming back to Nero for its ease of use and the fact that it works, period. I really wish that Nero would offer a version of their software with just the burner, none of the other crap, because in all reality I just use the burner. Some may want the other stuff, but for how much it is...

Oh and I really don't think there are many good burning programs out there period. I have used at least a half dozen different programs, from Nero to Roxie to CDBurnerXP to Deepburner to PTPublisher (for the Primera disc publishing hardware) and the only ones that have worked very good are Nero and PTPublisher.

I just tried CDBurnerXP 3 times (download, reinstall,etc.). I tried copying a disk 3 times; it said there was an error with the disk. I then tried to use it to create a cd-the next 2 times the program hung and repeatedly would not respond. Pity, because I've read numerous positive ratings-and i downloaded the latest version. Perhaps there is something on my computer that is not compatible, but I honestly don't have the patience right now to go through everything...

Hey JD (hope ya don't mind me callin ya that);

Anyways I found two lovely new programs that are both freeware that I think should be on the list:

DVD Flick:
http://www.dvdflick.net/

DVD Styler:
http://www.dvdstyler.de/

I think they do similar things as I've tried flick and I'm just about to try styler however if the guy who mentioned bout wedding videos is still checking this list then perhaps I found your answer...

- Shane -
http://4einconline.com

ImTOO Music CD Burner v3.0
ImTOO Music CD Burner is expert music CD burning software with simple settings. It can burn music CD from almost all video and audio formats, including MPEG, WMV, ASF, AVI, MOV, MP3, 3GP, RM, MP2, WMA, WAV, AU, M4A, RA, OGG, AAC, AC3.
http://www.kooksoft.com/software/MP3-Audio/Music-Management/200808/16-58...

ZC WMV to DVD Burner
ZC WMV to DVD Burner transcodes and burns WMV, ASF, ASX files into DVD disc. With DVD encoding and burning engine integrated you can easily Merge up to 4 hours of multiple movies or episodic files to standard MPEG2 Video and burn it into a DVD±R/RW disc that playable on car or home DVD player.supports both NTSC and PAL TV system.Supports widescreen and standard TV. It's a 1 click solution to burn DVD movie from huge internet movie resources.
http://www.kooksoft.com/software/DVD-Video/Multimedia/200808/15-576.html

CDBurnerXP has never let me down.
CDBurnerXP is so effective that can be compared with the paid CD / DVD Burning Software.

Check always for a newer version, as they constantly improve it.
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Do you only rank/rate Windows software? Perhaps the page titles should say that.

CDBurnerXP looks like a perfect replacement to Nero, but with time you discover the multitude of bugs. The version I had from a couple of months ago couldn't drag and drop to specific folders in the DVD - everything went from the hard drive into the root directory of the DVD, and had to be redragged to the specific folder! Annoying as heck.
Worse was that it got this problem that burnt a disc halfway through and then stopped. Thinking it was a bad disk (which is more or less what it reported) I promptly put in another disc, only to eventually realize that ALL burns were going to be bad. The only solution is to reboot the computer. You don't know how many discs CDBXP killed. I downloaded the latest version, which fixed the dragging bug but still has the burning bug. Obviously I'm done using this software, though I believe it has much potential.