Unimpressed by the overly bloated Nero Burning ROM (and also its price tag) when all you want is a simple CD burner? Me too.
As a Windows Vista user I have some simple CD/DVD burning support built-in, but I find it unsuitable... fiddle as I might with the settings, it's a choice of either a UDF disc that doesn't seem to work on Mac or Linux (boo, hiss!) - no matter what version of UDF you set - or a 'mastered' disc which creates a fairly standard ISO9660 disc but insists on creating an image beforehand which takes as long as the burning itself.
This is where third party burning software usually comes in.
CD Burner XP Pro was good, but it was last updated in 2004 and doesn't support Vista.
Windows Fanatics pointed out (some time ago) in this blog entry an app called FinalBurner. And hoorah, it works! It's not pretty but it's relatively easy to use, low overhead, and does the job reliably.
Until there's a Windows equivalent of Linux's fantastic "K3B" burning software, this is a good option.
Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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