Opinions please - CD burner

[Angelstardust]

I usually like Serif.

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[ken]

I have only bothered using Ashampoo for years and I am using Ashampoo 8, as I dont need Blu-ray at the moment. You can get a download of Ashampoo 9.10 for 7 quid at the moment and that has Blu-ray as well as everything else. As for Fireman and Honetech, they cant be that popular as I have never heard of them.

The dont come any easier to use than Ashampoo and it doesn't bog the system down like some of the better known big ones. Its the only one I recommend, for general use.

[Angelstardust]

I have been using Nero since I started, but thought I might give the Serif one a try. I take your point, but I'd not heard of Ashampoo for burning.

[ken]

The Ashampoo Burning Studio is the only decent piece of kit that Cleaverbridge make. All their other stuff is garbage, except perhaps the photographic programs. I haven't tried them.

[mikkh]

While stocks last !

They must have a BIG pile because all the reviews I found were dated summer 2007

Not that old software is immediately bad, but it smacks of dishonesty to me

Nero 6 is still usable, Nero 7 was the start of bloatware and 8 onwards is a joke how much crud it puts on your hard drive

if you don't mind all the guff later versions of Nero puts on your hard drive, stick to that - otherwise use one of the many freeware ones like CDburnerXP .

I prefer the simplicity of Linux burning apps like K3B myself which doesn't try to make itself the default picture viewer, media player and tea maker like Nero does - it just burns things!

[elvisuk]

I use Gburner in W7 it's free and in Linux Mint i use K3b

[mikkh]

Gburner is not free, it's a 30 day trial version that costs $29.95 if you want to keep using it after that

What made you think it was free?

Here's a few that are free

www.downloadsquad.com/2009/04/28/5-great-free-cd-and-dvd-burning-apps-for-windows/

You can add burn4free to that list if you don't mind installing their toolbar - you can remove it later

[Angelstardust]

Thanks for that. I still have Nero 6 in use on XP.

[elvisuk]

Your right Mikkh Gburner is not Free i dont know why i thort it was

[lazysod]

Also if you want to try ashampoo as Ken recommended it is free from here just now
www.mydigitallife.info/2009/08/12/ashampoo-burning-studio-2009-advanced-free-full-version-registration-key-download-nero-alternative/
My nero did not work on windows 7 so I tried this and it does you just need to give them an email address for the key.
Also Mikkh I just tried cdburnerxp and it works as well I was just curious to see if it was any better. ;D