Nero alternatives

[t0rek]

Recently, Nero is getting heavier in size (last release weights 200 mb) , turning into bloatware. Some people is starting to call it "the norton of the cd /dvd recording". So my question is, is there any good alternatives available? Better if they are free..

 

[WhiteX]

Easy CD creator?

 

[Lord Budweiser]

A free good alternative is CD Burner XP Pro. It is free. I'm not aware of recent updates, but as far as I know it is good, but not great.

 

[t0rek]

Easy CD creator?

AFAIK is has even more bloatware than Nero

 

[Mantorok]

FinalBurner (right down the bottom). Pretty basic, but it's free.

 

[Agozer]

DeepBurner Free. Simple and easy.

 

[Doomulation]

ImgBurn may help. It burns ISOs even better than Nero and can burn files directly. It's free to boot.

 

[smcd]

As mentioned above, DeepBurner Free and CD Burner XP are both nice, and free - can't beat the price/performance ratio there

 

[Miretank]

Deepburner saved my life once. I just forgot to test it on Vista.

 

[ScottJC]

200mb, don't make me laugh, with broadband these days that is nothing! It takes me roughly 10 minutes to download that. Nothing stopping you visiting the shop and picking up a copy that way if you can't be bothered to wait.

 

[Stezo2k]

Yeah, but nero is quite bloated these days though...

I personally say go back to nero 6 like I did, no bloat and does everything i want it to

 

[Doomulation]

200mb, don't make me laugh, with broadband these days that is nothing! It takes me roughly 10 minutes to download that. Nothing stopping you visiting the shop and picking up a copy that way if you can't be bothered to wait.

I hate to say it, but it's bloat. In Nero 6, you could roughly download 3 packages á 30 mb each. Now you have to download the entire 200 mb package, which contains a lot of crap you just don't need. Not to mention how buggy Nero 7 is. The file list in the application, for example, is inferior to a normal one and is buggy. They also seem to have removed the option that lets you choose if to eject the drive when done with something. Yet, Nero 7 seems to be BIGGER than Nero 6. Hmmm, figures...
Bloat. Just bloat.

And to think of those poor 56k-ers... 30 mb was bad enough and now, 200 mb!?

 

[t0rek]

Is not the download waits that bothers me... Doom explain it very well...

 

[Toasty]

I was never able to get version 7 to properly encode my 24 fps AVIs to DVD either. Version 6 did it flawlessly. There's probably a way to do it, but I've never gotten around to trying. (I like free encoding software better anyway.)

 

[blizz]

I never bothered to upgrade to version 7, but these free alternatives you guys mention look interesting.