Guest Post by James – While physical media such as CDs and DVDs has largely been replaced by thumb drives and external hard drives, there are still times when a good-old-fashioned disc comes in handy. For instance, maybe you want to share your vacation pictures with Grandma Lucy, or perhaps you’d like to make a video presentation for your parents’ 25th wedding anniversary. If so, you’ll need a good CD/DVD burning program to produce your disc.

Here’s a run down of 7 popular programs that can make this task easier.

1. ImgBurn (Free, Window) ImgBurn has several different ‘modes’ which allow you to perform a number of tasks. You can read, build, write and verify a CD as well as use the Discovery mode, which helps you create a perfectly seamless CD. What’s more, ImgBurn supports a variety of image file formats so that most people can use the software.

2. CDBurnerXP Pro 4 (Free, Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista) This program is excellent for creating music CDs, in either audio or data (MP3, AAC, etc.) format. It has a good, user-friendly interface, and it allows you to create audio CDs from many file formats, including WAV, WMA, MP3, and OGG. CDBurnerXP also includes an integrated audio player, which is convenient for playing your music before or after burning disc.

3. Burn (Free, Mac OS X) Burn, arguably the most famous CD and DVD burning software for Mac that’s free, allows you burn virtually any type of CD or DVD. It can burn data discs, audio CDs, and video CD or DVD discs. Burn can also copy or write disk images such as those in the .dmg, and .iso formats. A bonus feature provides the ability to personalize your DVD videos interactive menus and themes.

4. InfraRecorder (Free, Windows) This free, open-source burning application covers almost all of your CD and DVD needs. It supports the burning of disc images, creating video DVDs, copying discs, and quickly making audio CDs. It can even erase discs! InfraRecorder is very light and quick, and it’s extremely portable, which means you can take it with you on your thumb drive wherever you go.

5. Explore&Burn (Free, Windows) Explore&Burn is a great program for users that want ease and simplicity. Extremely lightweight, Explore&Burn is a no frills program which allows you to burn files by simply right clicking on the files you want to burn and selecting from the drop down menu. Explore&Burn is capable of creating video and data discs without trouble and can also create a multi session CD. What’s more, it comes in a variety of languages so you’ll always find the software easy to understand.

6. FinalBurner (Free, Windows) FinalBurner is among the best of the free burning programs out there. It gives you the ability to create audio, video, and data discs. It can burn DVD+R/RW, CD R/RW, DVD-R/RW, and DVD DL discs. It can also extract songs from audio CDs and save them as .wav, .mp3, . mid, .acc, .wma, .mp4, and many other formats. FinalBurner also supports burning an ISO image of a disc.

7. StarBurn Free (Free, Windows) This program from RocketDivision supports a large variety of hardware including DVD, CD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players. StarBurn includes step-by-step wizards for extracting, copying and burning discs. The interface is extremely easy to use. Key features include extracting individual tracks from DVDs, saving backups of DVD/CD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD discs in 1:1 mode, and ripping sound tracks from audio CDs.

As you can see, there are plenty of programs out there to simplify the task of producing CDs and DVDs. Perhaps one of those listed above will suit your needs.

By day James is a writer who works at a leading UK based supplier of ink cartridges where he covers the latest developments in hardware and new product releases like the HP 901XL.

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ISOBuddy is a small and free tool which can convert almost any image file format to ISO. It can convert image formats like: GI, NRG, CDI, MDF, IMG, B5I, B6I, DMG, PDI, BIN and CCD to .ISO image. Apart from converting, it lets you Erase CD/DVD and Burn ISO image files to CD/DVD disc.

Use the Open button to select the source image file and ‘Save as’ to chose the target file where you want to save the output file. To erase a disc, open extras and chose the erase disk option. Supports – Windows only.

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WinX is now offering WinX DVD Author for Free (Lifetime license) worth $29.95 as a giveaway, which runs from Oct 20 to Oct 31.

WinX DVD Author is powerful DVD movie creator and DVD burning software to make DVD from various video formats, like AVI, MOV, MPEG, WMV, FLV, RMVB, XviD, DivX, H.264, etc.

With this DVD authoring software, it is easy and fast to create your stylish DVD by making DVD menu, clipping video segment, adding subtitles.

Key Features -

• Convert video to DVD and burn DVD from DVD folder
• DVD Menu maker
• Easily clip video files
• Support both PAL and NTSC
• Support both DVD-9 and DVD-5
• Support both widescreen and standard TV
• High video quality and fast speed

Promotion Link – Download WinX DVD Author FREE

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Explore&Burn is a new and free CD/DVD burning application with intuitive and easy to use interface. It is integrated within Windows Shell context menu, providing easiest and fastest way to burn files, folders, ISO & IMG images on your computer to CD or DVD.

It is extremely lightweight as compared to other bloated burning applications.

Supports: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003/2008 (32-bit & 64-bit)

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Power Sound Editor is a nice alternative to popular program Audacity.

Power Sound Editor Free is a visual audio editing and recording software solution, which supports many advanced and powerful operations with audio data. You can use it to record your own music, voice, or other audio files, edit it, mix it, add effects, Rip audio and burn it on a CD.

Key Features:

• Record new audio file from a microphone, sound card or other input devices
• Edit an audio file (Delete, Cut, Copy, Paste, Paste From File, Mix, Mix From File) and apply different effects (Amplify, Delay, Equalizer, Fade, Flanger, Invert, Normalize, Reverse, MultiTapDelay, Silence, Stretch, Vibrato, Echo, Chorus)
• Rip and Burn audio CD – Ability to rip audio CDs to MP3, WMA, WAV, and OGG files or burn audio CDs from MP3, WMA, WAV, and OGG files.
• Support major audio formats such as MPEG (MP3, MP2), WAV, Windows Media Audio, Ogg Vorbis, Audio Tracks and Dialogic VOX.
• Easy to use interface and completely Free.

Supported OS: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista

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I’ve found something which you cannot believe! Nero, one of the most popular software organisation is now providing a Nero 9 Free version as free download.

Nero 9 Free Version

What’s better than free? Free forever! Nero offers you the chance to enjoy Nero’s world-renowned data disc burning and copying features for an unlimited time, absolutely FREE!

Enjoy basic data burning and copying capabilities for your CDs and DVDs from the world’s most trusted digital media brand, Nero.

This version of Nero 9 contains simply data burning and disc copying features for CDs and DVDs. Additional features and functionality are available with an upgrade to Nero 9 full version. This is really an exciting offer from Nero

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Recently, I wrote a post on Get Ashampoo Burning Studio 6.76 Full version Free. But now I’ve managed to find a promotion, which can provide you a Full version license serial of Ashampoo Burning Studio 9 2009 worth $49.99 for Free.

Ashampoo Burning Studio 2009 Advanced lets you burn music and other data to CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs. Also, design and print the matching cover, booklets and labels easily. It is free and a real alternative to fee-paying rivals like Nero.

Key features:

• Burn and update data discs
• Back up your data to single or multiple discs
• Rip and burn music
• Burn movies and photos to DVDs and data discs
• Copy CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs
• Create and burn disc images
• Erase rewriteable discs
• Create covers and labels

How to get Ashampoo Burning Studio 2009 Advanced – Free Full Version

1. Visit this promotional page.

2. Click on the “Download” button and download the software.

3. Now Install Ashampoo Burning Studio 2009.

4. At the end of installation, select Obtain a Free full version key and click Ok.

5. A registration page will be opened now, fill your email address and click Send.

6. Now you’ll receive an e-mail with a confirmation link, click on the given link. After opening the link, you’ll get another email containing the license key.

7. Register your Ashampoo software with the license code received.

Enjoy Free Full-version of Ashampoo Burning Studio 2009 (9.0.5497).

Thanks to JK & e_sentinel for notifying about the problem.

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Ashampoo Burning Studio 6.77 a nice alternative to Nero, is now being provided as a freeware.

Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 FREE is a powerful burning suite with a simple and intuitive interface. It includes only the main functions and features and excludes the useless ones. It allows you to backup and burn your files, folders, data, music, etc. on CDs/DVDs/Blu-ray discs.

Main Features:

• Multi-disc file backup and restore on CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs
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• Burn Video DVD, Video CD (VCD) or Super Video CD (S-VCD)
• Create and burn CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc images
• Burn speed and other options can all be set automatically
• Make copies from audio, video or data discs easily
• Erase CD-RWs / DVD+RWs / DVD-RWs/ DVD-RAM/ BD-REs
• Integrated support for over 1,700 CD, DVD and Blu-ray burners
• 100% Free to use.

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