CD burning Software?

[Electric Amish]

I have Nero at home and EZCD at work.

I prefer the EZCD interface, personally.

amish

[Kastuvas]

Nero, burn baby burn, hehe also use CloneCD

[Colin Morey]

Nero under Windows, Cdrecord under *IX (got to put that in :P)

[Beezer]

I'm curious about Nero. Overwhelmingly people perfer it. I have never tried it so I don't know what makes it better than the rest. Gurm gave reasons for his choices, how about others?
I only have experience with Roxio Easy CD and CloneCD. So far CloneCD has worked for all my needs and seems pretty easy to use.

The reason I bought CloneCD was that it was able to copy one of my kid's favorite games that had gotten damaged. Roxio couldn't read it and a couple friends tried on their systems with no luck (don't remember what they used).

I'm just curious if Nero is worth looking into....

[Wombat]

Nero lets you do almost everything you'd want, and it doesn't nag you along the way. It doesn't handle .cues (that I know of), but it is very quick to assemble a new CD, or copy another disc, set up for overburning, and it doesn't mess up the rest of your computer, like a lot of burning programs used to (do?).

[orangejulius]

Nero used to be good, but has gotten pretty bloated.
Sony CD Extreme does pretty much everything Nero does, but is smaller, faster, and free.

[lindberg]

hey people, NERO do handle *.cue's. Mine does, just select "burn image" then select "view all files" and select the cue-file then burn and live happely ever after

Nero Rulez!

(only technical teachers and lamers use Eazy CD and similiar progz)

[xortam]

Pardon my ignorance but what is a .cue file? I normally burn only to archive data. EZCD has done me fine so far but now I need to attempt an overburn.

[[GDI]Raptor]

Use both Nero & CloneCD on my Plextor 1210TS SCSI Burner
I'm very satisfied with Nero, I used to use WinOnCD, but it had some problems with Windows XP in the start....

[Cookiemonster]

GnomeToaster. I really like Linux' multitasking, I can work or play games at same time that I burn CDs =)

[Gurm]

The problem with EZCD is that it either works fine for you or it don't.

If it don't, nothing will make it work - no patch, tweak, or fix. The engine is just flawed.

And it often screws people's machines beyond repair.

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Nero, OTOH, lacks a few of the features that make EZCD good.

Can SOMEONE please recommend a volume equalizer for me, to make sure all my tracks are the same volume before burning an audio CD? Nero won't do it, and it was always just a checkbox for EZCD.

- Gurm

[Colin Morey]

.bin and .cue files are images created by, (i think) winonCD, for single tracks they're pretty much burn image, select .bin, but multiple tracks, with different sector sizes is a little more difficult.

However, later versions of Nero do support burning of .cue's natively.

Nero is powerful, it's growing in size, but it's still small enough for me not to worry about downloading the latest version. It can also burn VCD's from video files, with some conversion on the fly.

C

[Beezer]

I forgot to mention that I also use Clean! (by Steinberg) for compiling CD's and (most importantly) transferring cassettes (bootleg concert tapes) to CD. It works pretty good and is easy to use. Best of all it has a good compliment of "restoration tools" such as Normalizing the volumes, equalization, de-clicking, de-noise, de-rumble, stereo seperation, etc. And converts .wav to .mp3
It is not free however. Paid about $50 for it.

[Gurm]

Colin...

Those files are created by CDRWin, not WinOnCD. Fireburner also burns them 100% correctly. Nero and Disc Juggler have... sub-par handling of them.

(Reasons I still keep CDRWin installed...)

- Gurm

[box]

Nero, but you really should've had BlindWrite in the list and multiple choices