Free CD/DVD burning software BurnAware includes support for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD

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Free CD/DVD burning software BurnAware includes support for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD

by Simon Kerbel Jan 22nd 2008

Looking for an inexpensive (read: free) alternative to the CD/DVD burning utilities currently dominating the market? BurnAware Free looks to fill that space nicely.

BurnAware is a free utility that enables you to perform most common disc burning tasks:

Burn data to most any type of disc, including DVD+R and DVD-R
Create audio CD's from WAV, mp3, or WMA files
Create disk images (.ISO's)
Write DVD video files (e.g. VOB files) to a DVD

The interface is very clean and easy to use. BurnAware has a simple home screen where you can see the different burning options. Once an option is selected, the home screen minimizes to the taskbar (similar to Nero and Roxio's functionality) and a new window is opened, allowing you to customize whatever function you selected.

An added bonus of BurnAware is support for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD formats (provided that you have the appropriate drive, of course). Though BurnAware supports both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, we found it peculiar that it only advertises Blu-Ray support. A pointed jab at HD-DVD, or simply an oversight? Only time will tell...

BurnAware Free is currently in beta, with support for Windows 98/NT/2000/XP and Vista (32 and 64 bit).

Tags: blu-ray, burning software, BurningSoftware, cd, dvd, freeware, hd-dvd

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rumble said 7:56PM on 1-22-2008

Drag-and-drop for adding files is preferred, but this still looks slick. And free. Double great.

This is a field in Windows dominated by commercial software such as Nero. For me, back in my Windows days, CDBurnerXP probably did the best job for assorted kinds of writing out of the freeware crowd. Burrrn was a no-brainer for audio CDs. Nero couldn't touch the simplicity and true gapless burning.

Now, for Linux, I think Brasero knocks the pants off K3B. The folks at Ubuntu love it too and are making it the default burning application in Hardy Heron.

I'll keep a lookout on BurnAware for whenever I'm around the spawn of Redmond again. Thanks.

gachevsky said 12:08PM on 1-23-2008

Does anyone know if this program will copy non-copyright protected cds and dvds? I think you can with CDBurnerXP, but I haven't used that one in a while.

rcm_rx7 said 12:17PM on 1-23-2008

CDburner xp has been doing this for awhile, it's freeware as well. Haven't ever heard of this one, I might give it a try.

James said 1:16PM on 1-24-2008

Is there any reason to use e.g. Nero over this, if all you ever do is create CDs/DVDs full of arbitrary files, or video DVD backups (ripped with e.g. DVDShrink)? I know Nero has a boatload of addons like video converters or backup schedulers, but I never use any of that stuff. I might just drop Nero altogether in favor of something free like this.

shambhu lal sukhwal said 12:15AM on 2-04-2008

Dear Sir /Mam,
I want to do this data entry business plz. provide me more informations about it.

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HanaDaddy said 3:29PM on 4-21-2008

You can download Ashampoo Burning Studio Free 6.61 from download.com and can be used without any registration! And it's free !

http://www.neox.net/w/2008/04/15/the-best-free-cd-burning-software-better-than-nero/

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