CDBurnerXP 4: Free CD/DVD authoring tool

by Brad Linder Oct 1st 2007

Despite its name, CDBurnerXP is not just a CD burning application for Windows XP. It's actually one of the most full featured free CD and DVD burning utilities you're likely to find for Windows 2000/XP/Vista.

CDBurnerXP 4 was recently released, and it has some impressive new features:

Support for burning Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, and Double layer DVDs
Support for FLAC audio files
Disc to Disc copy for audio and data
Save discs and compilations as ISO files
Support for WPL playlists

While Windows XP and Vista include some basic CD and DVD authoring features, CDBurnerXP is about as full-featured as many commercial applications out there. And it's free. The program is donateware, so if you want to download the latest beta versions you'll need to make a contribution.

[via freeware genius]

Tags: blu-ray, cd-burner, cdburnerxp, cdburnerxp-4, dvd, hd-dvd

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

s0ad said 8:22AM on 10-02-2007

I will not be upgrading to version 4 as it is built on Microsoft's .Net platform, which is utter crap. I'll be sticking to v.3.0.116.

name said 8:22AM on 10-02-2007

Give InfraRecorder a try, it's much better than anything else... http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/

Dean said 8:22AM on 10-02-2007

I've tried this a couple of times and uninstalled it a couple of times because it's too sloooow.

thedinger said 5:01PM on 10-02-2007

According to the following page, dotNET-haters can install a dotNET "alternative":
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/help/Appendices/install-without-dotnet

Floele said 5:07PM on 10-02-2007

.NET is no "utter crap". In fact, Vista includes it by default, so sooner or later you will *have to* use it anyway. But if the old version works fine for you - which contains open security holes btw - don't rant about the new version...

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