Which CD burning apps do you use?

[Chewie]

There's a "Nero 6 or 7?" thread somewhere hereabouts but Nero isn't the only knife in the drawer, so to speak, so I thought I'd gauge what is the most prevalent amongst members.
Feel free to give us comments on why you use a particular utility and/or why you may have rejected others.

I only use Nero v6. It does everything that I need it to.
I would upgrade to v7 if people started saying it's bugs had been squashed.

In the past I have tried CloneCD, Alcohol, WinOnCD, CDRWin, EasyCD Creator, Discjuggler, Blindwrite... perhaps a couple of others, and with the exception of EasyCD Creator, they all pretty much worked OK.
Nero 6 is definitely the jack-of-all-trades for me though.

[tesco]

Alcohol for burning images to discs, creating images, mounting.
Nero 7 for burning data files, dvds from vobs, music cds (altho I haven't for a while).

Used to use clonecd a few years ago, used Nero6 up until Nero 7 came out.

[zapjb]

I'll quote myself from that Nero thread.

I vote for DropToCD. Whole program is less than 1.5MB.:lol:

I just burned an .iso to disc. No muss, no fuss. Point & click. No shutting down other processes. Takes 1/10 the rsources of Nero or less. Imo Nero is a fn joke.

http://www.sateira.com/

DropToCD (DataCD/DVD) is a very easy to use tool to create and burn data CDs and DVDs based on drag&drop technology. Just drag&drop files and folders to a little window and hit 'Burn disc' from popup menu to burn a CD or DVD. Simply as 1,2,3... Also you can burn ISO images, erase rewritable CDs or DVDs and more...

With DropToCD you are able to:
Burn data CD or DVD
Burn ISO images to CD / DVD
Save ISO images
Erase rewritable CD / DVD
View and extract sessions from multisession CD / DVD
and more...

Features:
All 32-bit Windows versions are supported
Supports CD-R / CD-RW / DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD+R / DVD+RW / DVD-RAM
Tested with SCSI, IDE / EIDE, USB CD / DVD recorders
Create multisession CD / DVD
Create bootable CD / DVD or ISO images
Supports ISO9660 / Joliet files systems, burning simulation, OPC, BURNProof...
and more...

Benefits:
On the fly burning. No temporary files
Supports long filenames and foldernames (max 108 characters)
Burn over 300000 files and 80000 folders
Doesn't use any dlls or ocxs. Built-in ASPI layer
Displays necessary information about recorder and disc
Fast ISO image building speed
and more...

[gerp]

Using Nero 6 for music cds, dvds, and so far so good.

[okili]

i use nero 7

[Appzalien]

I use Nero6 for the straight forward stuff and sometimes the old standby Nero Burning Rom (I create a shortcut to it on my desktop since Nero Start Smart decided it wasn't important anymore). But believe it or not the one I use the most, recently anyway, is not even in the list. Dvd Decrypter has its own burner that works in conjunction with DvdShrink and using it I avoid the old "data will not fit on one Dvd" bug that Nero has picked up lately. I don't know if Nero is re-encoding with out my asking or if it just doesn't see the file correctly but it really tick's me off.

[j0nathan]

I use alcohol for programs, I use nero 6 for movies and music, I think that nero 7 sucks.

[limpingjaret]

I use Nero 7 and haven't experienced any bugs to speak of, I have a lightscribe drive which nero happily supports and lets me burn images to.

[Chewie]

Excuse me, but ftw is a lightscribe drive?
I've seen them advertised but what they actually do isn't made clear. Something about writing on the surface of the disc... images?

[RealitY]

Use Alcohol and DVD Decryptor and have a drag and drop app that came with the pc that does data just fine...

[Rip The Jacker]

Excuse me, but ftw is a lightscribe drive?
I've seen them advertised but what they actually do isn't made clear. Something about writing on the surface of the disc... images? "LightScribe is an optical disc recording technology that utilizes specially coated recordable CD and DVD media to produce laser-etched labels."

It basically lets you create labels on the CDs, without like sticker labels, it kinda engraves the pictures and text onto the CD. I have a lightscribe DVDRW drive, never made any lightscribe labels though... it seems cool.

See teh photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LightScribe_CD.JPG

I use DVD Decryptor for DVDs, Nero 6 for everything else. :)

[Chewie]

Hell, that looks so cool.
Shame the etching isn't permanent, though.

[Rip The Jacker]

Yeah it apparently fades off in around 9 months... eh... can't be perfect. :P

[zedaxax]

on my usb stik i have Silent NightMicro (1194 kb)
http://www.silentnight2004.com/microburner.html

http://8.10.179.164/screenfiles/silentnightcd.gif

[graemek]

I usually use alcohol for burning / making images and then just use nero for generel cd's and data disks

[tesco]

Use Alcohol and DVD Decryptor and have a drag and drop app that came with the pc that does data just fine...
The thing built into XP?
I hate that crap, when you drag and drop you have to wait for it to copy all the data to another folder on your computer, before it can burn.:blink:
Completely useless if you're burning stuff to free up space. :rolleyes:

[Chewie]

Use Alcohol and DVD Decryptor and have a drag and drop app that came with the pc that does data just fine...
The thing built into XP?
I hate that crap, when you drag and drop you have to wait for it to copy all the data to another folder on your computer, before it can burn.:blink:
Completely useless if you're burning stuff to free up space. :rolleyes:
Yeah, it's like InCD, Microsoft-style!

[peat moss]

Hell, that looks so cool.
Shame the etching isn't permanent, though.


No but a black felt marker is ! It's all I'v ever used . :happy:

[allboy]

I now use nero 7 it´s very nice

[backlash]

I use nero 6. It works and gets the job done. No need to use anything else.

[andremario]

Nero, allways the latest version.;)

[scrambler]

nero 6 [nero 7 is buggy for me] for everything except for images where i use dvd decrypter

[fkdup74]

Use Alcohol and DVD Decryptor and have a drag and drop app that came with the pc that does data just fine...
The thing built into XP?
I hate that crap, when you drag and drop you have to wait for it to copy all the data to another folder on your computer, before it can burn.:blink:
Completely useless if you're burning stuff to free up space. :rolleyes:

It's a temp folder, and it deletes them after the burn. Sheesh. :P

I just found a decent freeware burner the other day.
CDBurnerXP Pro (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/cdburnerxp.html)
Runs sweet on lower end PCs.
i.e. My 800 MHz Pentium at teh office.

Nero, Roxio and Sonic were all fuggin off.
Tried Deepburner, it sucked bawls too on that old Pentium.
Browsed over to Snapfiles and tried out CDBurnerXP and haven't looked back.

[abcdefg]

using nero 6 ultra (long time ago Easy CD Creator)

[kukumann]

nero 7 for most of my burning but i use Alcohol for games (ISO)

[StreetBit]

Got Nero 7 Ultra a couple of weeks ago and it seems to work quite well.