Answer for #43 ...probably the only free version of Ashampoo Burning Studio available on the internet is the version 6.77

http://download.cnet.com/Ashampoo-Burning-Studio-Free/3000-2646_4-10776287.html

It's been around for years and does a great job,.. check out the reviews at CNet and Snap Files.
If you really need the later version, I suggest you visit your local store and check the various computer magazines when they come out each month because they quite often offer the 2009 version absolutely free,.. that's how I get mine.

Can this software close the multi-session dvd+r disc that was created by using windows vista home premium sp2 ???

If not, does anyone know how to close multi-session dvd+r disc created by using windows vista burn feature?

Can anyone tell me if this will work to copy published movie DVDs onto a portable usb drive (or a backup disk)? I would like to consolidate my collection of movies and keep backups. If this does not work, does any one hav a suggestion of an easy to use software to accomplish this?

@ #9 The best free alternative probably is Ashampoo Burning studio 9 or 2009 which is free now at many places on internet.

Where? Every site I go to, it's only "free to try" then $39.99

Heavy, heavy thoughts... Who can tell me, does this program support multisession discs? Not a mention about it on the official site! If not, this program is hardly more useful then ImgBurn, which is absolutely free. Yes, ImgBurn can't rip music from CDs, but all people with brains use Exact Audio Copy for this purpose.

#26...Hard Drive? I use a 32GB USB Drive for my system drive and the 1TB WD Passport to Hold everything...I have a AMD 2 CPU processor with 6 GB Ram, I essentially Boot off the USB and launch Virtual PC.

Haven't had any problems with slowness and with Virtual PC ,
I have my PC Copy the Virtual Hard Drive to an archive folder everytime I shut it down. If software causes a crash then I restore the archive and am good to go.

Wes

I visit this site on a daily basis,and have found many very good progs
but I always download and test it before making any comments,but it appears that most comments here are given before the software is even used.Please download and try the software before making comments (duh).

Just been looking at the makers website, GOTD has this as BurnPro 5.1.1 but the lastest BurnPro the makers website are offering for download is BurnPro 4.1.0 see below
File Name Size Description
BurnPro.exe 4.71 MB BurnPro 4.1.0

#16 Bernardo: You may use the good and free MP3Gain for normalizing music. I have been using it for years.

A CD\DVD burner? Are you serious? There are tons of free burners. Why waste a day offering something we can get in under 2 minutes in any search engine. I understand you need to offer programs to pay the bill.... but please.... offer something worthwhile.

thanks Jeff...forget it,is a no,no ask toolbar..now burn pro says:
select Copy to image/ Burn disc from image and you’re ready to copy
-after copy is image deleted?

Nero lite is free, however, it requires you to install the Ask toolbar and more importantly, you cannot burn a playable DVD from an image with Nero lite. You must upgrade to the pay version for that function to work.

Optical storage media like CD/DVD... will be out run by USB flash devise due to the efficiency, capability, and also the small size of the object and it's reusable 1000 times/5 years minimum for most flash USB drive, longer life span, etc.

Now days you could even 'burn' your OS bootable installation image into USB for fresh OS install (anyone who interested Google for: WinToFlash or WinSetupFromUSB). Not every computer have a CD/DVD... burner, but surely there will be a USB port on it, some of the home use CD/DVD ... player has already equip with a USB port with support playback for AVI, WMV ,RM, MP3, FLAC etc. format direct from your flash USB drive.

Just to be frank, I can't really see the future/advantage for Burner Software. Further more, it's costing for $29.95, and there is lots of free burner out there already.

#1: "... “idea” is to add bluray support, read the information before wasting space. ..."

FWIW, not being able to erase a BD RE, IMHO it could use [more?] BD support.

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If there is really anyone out there without a burning software then get it while it’s going. I’ll stick with Nero and CDBurnerXP thanks.

#5: "... it could not rip video from DVDs I bought ..."

Check DVDFab & SlySoft sites.

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#6: "... Surely it is still the case that ONLY RW discs can be re-burned…Or is what they claim correct? That any old “data discs” can be re-burned with updated or new data ?? ..."

You can easily find more info on-line [IMHO the ImgBurn site/forums are a great place to start], but in a nutshell you can erase/re-write some discs, or just not finalize them so data can be added whenever, which also writes a new *table of contents* each burn, & is how you delete files/folders. Additionally there is the DVDR & similar formats, & the drag/drop methods available from Roxio & Nero, which [simplified] use the disc somewhat like an external storage drive.

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#24: "... Does this software do any thing that Nero can not? ..."

Depends on the version of Nero. Compared to the full version or the one noted below -- no.

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#27: "... I get all 3 of these for free either as a download or bundled with any burner I buy. ..."

Just a quick note: the Nero &/or Roxio versions included with [normally retail packaged only] burners are *usually* extremely limited versions, like most bundled software. While you sometimes get a nice surprise [Nero Essentials 9, version 2 is nice], most of the time it's hardly worth installing [e.g. the really bare version of Nero Essentials vs. http://store.purplus.net/ne9essu2.html].

#6 + #15 + #21
That must have been quite a pretty big rock lol.
There have also always been rewritable CDs/DVDs that you can format or wipe and write new or also you can delete single files and add new files i.e. update.
Using DLA (Drive Letter Access) you can even treat such a CD just like a normal drive and save files directly from applications to the medium.

Burn Pro is a small [~21MB], almost portable app [you'd need to use the portableapps.com format to move the Applications Data folder alongside the the one for the app], & it includes the proven StarBurn code. On the downside, while it does include some audio functions [readily found elsewhere], when it come to burning discs, I don't see anything Burn Pro does better than the smaller [~4.4MB], already portable, free, very well-proven ImgBurn.

IMHO ImgBurn has a somewhat less friendly interface, so I always keep my eyes open for alternatives -- in this respect Burn Pro at 1st seemed promising, but by the time you click through all the windows necessary to burn a disc, the only improvement it has to offer is a bit more color in the initial window. It takes too long to scan for optical disc drives [which I had to do every time], has no verify option [to make sure the burned disc is a 100% copy], won't let you set up a burn unless you have a blank disc inserted in the selected drive [a nuisance if/when you do a lot of burning IMHO], & though it's supposed to work with Blu Ray drives, it refused to read or erase a BD RE [Blu Ray Re-Writable]. Less important, it wouldn't recognize or work with either my DVD or DVD/BD burners from inside 7's XP Mode VM.

All in all I found Burn Pro very usable [simple DVD burns seemed to work OK], but I just don't see any compelling reason to use it. The major alternatives = Roxio, which has a huge impact on Windows, & includes quite a few advanced options as well as bundled apps [MyDVD, VideoWave, disc & media converters etc]; Nero, whose full suite is pretty much the same; & ImgBurn, where the "by-the-book" approach, sticking 100% to specs does an excellent job, but while extremely usable, it has a UI that's not as friendly. Somewhere in between are the Nero Essentials OEM version 2 CDs/licenses, selling for ~$3 - $10 online, which is friendly [easy on the eyes & nice when you don't want to take the time to think about what you're doing, i.e. ImgBurn], cuts out a Lot of the fat found in the full suite, but still has a larger impact on your system than I would like.

question for post11 Ezra..does that nerolite comes with "any" toolbar"..and how much space it takes...imgburn has asktoolbar
and burnpro..how to copy disc to disc?...like nero.

Can anyone verify the "update previously burned discs by adding and removing files and folders" claim?

I've been looking for burning software that can recognize that files are on an RW disc, allow you to tag the files you want deleted, rip the non-tagged files to the hard-disk, then erase the RW and re-burn the ripped files back to the RW (effectively "deleting" the tagged files).

If this app can do this, then I may run it beside my all-time-favorite ImgBurn, because it seems that's the only useful thing missing from it.

Nero and Roxio are just okay. ImgBurn does everything I need and more. I get all 3 of these for free either as a download or bundled with any burner I buy. So, why in the world would I go pay for yet another software that does exactly what these 3 all do for free??? It is a good program for free, but not worth paying for.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/starburn-v12/

starburn-v12 comes with a starburn.dll of higher version.

Has anyone tried this on 64 Bit systems (Win 7 or Vista)? Does this software do any thing that Nero can not?

I think these are two good question, that should help members decide if they need this software (including me, lol). Thanks again GOTD...

#6 , I think you have been under a rock....
As with Virtual PC if you install the software on an O/S image within it you can use that virtual image to use the Giveawayoftheday software on another machine. I keep a virtual image on a WD passport then just plug that into any machine and launch the image with virtual pc 2007 ( FREE from Microsoft ) and run the registered software from it.

#15 even if you close the session there is software that can reoprn the CD to write more to it, It is when you Finialize it that you can no longer write to it.

So, the BurnPro website says the program is v. 4.1, GAOTD says 5.1.1, and the installed program is v. 5.5.1. Who is right?

@ #6 I find their info very confusing about that point. They say you can erase RW but they don't say anything about writing to RW. They only talk about "burning".

@ #15 One cannot update data once it has been burned. Yes one can add updated data to a disk that hasn't been closed, but that isn't the same as updating (overwriting) the data itself which is what they seem to be implying.

Once data has been burned (not written) to a disk it is a done deal and can't be changed. When data is written to a RW disk it can be changed and updated.

#6, #15, RW means that it can be rewritten over the existing data. Or added to, I suppose. In my experience, the DVD disk has to be +r (plus write) to add to an existing DVD that has been written, unless it is finalized of course. If it is finalized, then the +r format will not be changed.

I have not seen this information in any DVD burner info that I have ever seen. I cannot find if there is a CD +R format.

I hope that this helps.

Nero is good, but the word "bloatware" must have had Nero in mind. Its about TEN times the size in MB (GB almost) it needs to be. I'll use this and try it. Wouldn't pay that though (still have Nero 8 on my comp to be fair !)

forgot... yes Charles , it saves you from all the media software Nero has added in the past years...

Actually the gui is the same as many other burners out there. i don't think it can get much simpler than that: choose burning output -> put files in -> choose burning options like speed etc(optional) -> burn

Hi,
looks interesting and worth to give it a try.
Prelominar question: Is there a way to normalize
music pieces before burning ?
ThanX !

#6. If you do not close your session when burning data, you can add files or add updated versions of the files. it requires extra space on cd, i.e you will not get full 700mb depending on how many times you do it

In addition to some of the free alternatives mentioned above, there is also a more comprehensive, and sturdy StarBurn available as a Free edition from Rocketdivision at http://www.rocketdivision.com/download_starburn.html .

Absolutely Great! Now I can avoid the MASSIVE bloatware called Nero!!!!

Been waiting for a give away like this for a long time! Very well done Give Away team!!!!

HUGE Thumbs Up!!!!

I hope it doesn't go against the rules here to mention other products. ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/ and InfraRecorder (note separate 64bit download) - http://infrarecorder.org/, as well as Nero Lite - http://www.filehippo.com/download_nero_lite/ all do a great job for free. A REALLY great job.

I realy have to agree with Hamtey (see comment 1) nero is kind of defacto and any burning software mostly is free an my burner does Litescribe also which i got when i bought my burner with free updates for the forseable future so cant realy see why anyone would pay for this.
Simply put this is lame rubish and not worth paying 50p at a car boot sale.
Tip of the day ! Save your hard drive space and look elswhere.
Z

The best free alternative probably is Ashampoo Burning studio 9 or 2009 which is free now at many places on internet. Nero also has a free version but not as good as Ashampoo Burning Studio.

Unlike Nero, this can't simply burn a .avi/mp4 etc. to work as a DVD.

There is also ImgBurn which is excellent...

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•Burn and update data discs: Burn data to discs and update previously burned discs by adding and removing files and folders

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Maybe I have been living under my rock for tooo long...Surely it is still the case that ONLY RW discs can be re-burned...Or is what they claim correct? That any old "data discs" can be re-burned with updated or new data ??

Same as other users...to many good free ones out there. Even with this being free, it is only good until you buy a new computer, then you loose it and have to go back to a free one! Stick to the free one to start with...I say :)

recommended freeware alternative CDBurnerXP:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Data-CD-DVD-Burning/CDBurnerXP-Pro-beta.shtml

rated Very Good (4.4/5) by 776 users,
5/5 Softpedia Pick

PROS:
* Smooth download, installation, activation, registration on Vista x32 OS.
* Very simple, easy-to-navigate, easy-to-understand, attractive GUI.
* Supports Data Burning for: Data CD, Data DVD, Data HD DVD, Data Blu-Ray Disc.
* Supports Music Burning for: Audio CD, Grab Audio CD.
* Supports Video Burning for: Video CD, Super Video CD, DVD Video Files.
* Supports Other Tools for: Disc Eraser, Device Info., ISO Creator, ISO Burner, ISO Grabber.
* Easy to use and operate.

CONS: - price tag is a bit high compared with freeware options that are equally capable and feature-rich.

Summary: - Program is easy to use and does as it says - so a big thumbs up for today's program - thanks, GOTD and MEPMedia.

Freeware Alternative:

Burnaware FREE - CNET User Rating: 3.5/5

To Proxidian, whose "idea" is to add bluray support, read the information before wasting space.

As a whole, I'm not sure how this is value for money. Most burners come with some software like Nero, and there's plenty of freeware alternatives. $29.95 (£20.00) seems a bit steep, unless they can prove it sings and dances as well.

If there is really anyone out there without a burning software then get it while it's going. I'll stick with Nero and CDBurnerXP thanks.