Craig, So what does this registration do? I am confused. :/

Hello Ant, That is the strange thing. As far as I can see because I haven't investigated all the features of the program, it doesn't do anything except change the name of the registration.
It seems that the only difference between the free and the GOTD version is who the registration is attributed to.

Eldad, According to a google search, it's a "Optical burning tool":

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/controlled-applications/StarWindLite.aspx

Eldad,
>What is StarWindLite that came bundled with StarBurn?
As I understand it ...
Look at the list of supported systems and you will notice there are Server OSes listed as well as the common computers/workstation OSes. Imagine you have multiple computers/workstations all connected to one server, but none of the workstations have a DVD burner, ... but the server does. You need a way of connecting the workstation to the DVD burner on the server. The solution is an iSCSI Initiator, of which StarWindLite is. You can install StarWindLite on the server, and install StarBurn on a workstation, and then be able to burn your DVD on the server. The StarWindLite is a service that runs on the computer that has the burner (if it is different from the computer that has the StarBurn).

Microsoft makes an iSCSI Initiator as well, and most servers with a DVD burner will already have the Microsoft version. StarBurn should work with the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator just fine. If however, your server does not have a DVD burner, and therefore, may not have the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator, but you want to add a DVD burner, then you could use the StarWindLite to make the connection between the two computers.

By the way, the two computers do not need to be on the same network, and the burner could be at a remote location that you connect to via the Internet. So, if you do not have a DVD burner, but your friend on the other side of the world does, and you are dying to send that person a burned DVD, you could work together to get the DVD burned on their computer. Granted, it may not be fast over the Internet, but at least you wouldn't have to buy the DVD blanks.

Eldad,
Also note on the StarBurn choices, there is an option to "Add Remote Device." That is how you would connect to the other computer that has the DVD burner.

Of course, the DVD burner does not have to be on a server; it could be any other workstation as well, as long as you can connect to it via a network or the Internet (by the way, the first i in iSCSI stands for Internet). You only need to install the StarWindLite when there are two computers involved, and of course, it gets installed on the computer that has the burner only. These days, most computers, even laptops have a DVD burner.

When you think about it, it was mighty nice that the developer included StarWindLite, and at no extra charge.

Eldad, https://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/controlled-applications/StarWindLite.aspx

Chris, TK, Gary,
Thank you all for the detailed replies.
I installed StarBurn on both my XP PC and W7 laptop. The later does not have a disc drive, and I thought of trying to use it with a stand-alone USB2 DVD drive.
I wonder if you or anyone tried to do that, as far as I checked - USB disk drives are not mentioned in the StarBurn Instructions or Help.
Eldad

Thank you TK.
I think that USB2 is probably fast enough to burn music or data cds, perhaps at X24. What do you think?

Thank you TK, most helpful!

Hi Trying 2 b Helpful. :-)

It's not GOTD's team fault.
See starburnsoftware.com/products/starburn/features:

"Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me (Millennium Edition),
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, Windows 2012 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2016,
Windows 10 are supported. Both 32-bit and 64-bit."

They should probably edit that webpage.

xilolee, What I was saying is the software itself is compatible with all listed, BUT the GOTD wrapper is *not*, therefore the GOTD team should go by the minimum the wrapper is compatible with, not the software...

Never mind- it doesn't apply today as there is no wrapper! LOL Hadn't installed it yet so I didn't know that...

SoftwareJunkie, in this case, it means it will rip the music from your physical media. Long ago, I used a program called AudioGrabber whose entire function was just that: grabbing music from CDs. So there is a precedent for using that word in that way from long before people imagined capturing streaming media.

SoftwareJunkie, http://www.starburnsoftware.com/help/index.html?grab_audio.htm hope this helps,

Jim,
hmmm...call me crazy but, if you've "been waiting forever for this" why not just pony up the (less than) 5 bucks this program costs and you won't have to wait at all. Seems like a reasonable idea to me. I'm almost certain that the software developers rely on sales to stay in business. ..
But i could be wrong, i guess.

jeff matthews, why would Jim pony up 5 bucks for a program that crashes when he tries to use it?

sjbehr, how could Jim know this program crashes if he doesn't pony up 5 bucks.

Michael, That is the whole point of GOTD, to try/test software before you waste your money on software that you don't need or doesn't work. This is Obviously a great tool for the software developer too. They see that their software is not working for some. So they get a chance to use us as beta testers and we get a chance to get some really great software or not as in this case.

Kerry Voss, at last someone understands the gist of
what really goes on at this site.

jeff matthews, First of all the expression "waiting forever" doesn't need to be taken literally. Jim just means that he is glad to see the program on offer. In second place, the StarBurn is offered as a free program and can be licensed as such with no cost at all. So nobody needs to 'pony up' anything.