CD/DVD/BD WRITING  

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Nero 11
Multimedia
Suite

  The Nero 11 Multimedia Suite features an abundance of software for creating great looking multimedia projects. Features such as Nero Kwik Media manages photos, music and videos and provides the option to create slideshows and photographic products. Nero Video 11 allows you to work on your videos while Nero SoundTrax and Nero WaveEditor ensures projects can be edited and embellished as required for a professional finish. Nero Recode 11 converts and optimises video files for playback on tablets, smartphones and other devices. Nero Burning ROM 11, Nero Express and Nero CoverDesigner ensure that you can burn your masterpieces onto CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs.
 

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Software
Nero Lite

   Nero offers you the chance to enjoy Nero’s world-renowned data disc burning and copying features for an unlimited time, absolutely Free. Enjoy basic data burning and copying capabilities for your CDs and DVDs from the world’s most trusted digital media brand, Nero.

Nero Free and Trial versions are strictly for personal, non-business use.

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ImgBurn

   ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray image burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit.

ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.

It's a very flexible application with several advanced features that are often lacking in other tools, especially when it comes to burning DVD Video discs. It supports all the latest drives without the need for updates (including booktype / bitsetting / advanced settings on many of the major ones - i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, LG, NEC, Plextor, Samsung, Sony)
 

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BurnAware

   BurnAware is the ultimate disc burning software. BurnAware Free is ideal for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, video discs and burning disc images. Free, easy to set up and maintain, it enables you to save your files to disc quickly, provides more flexible interface to help you complete your burning tasks much faster

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Burn4Free

   Burn4Free CD & DVD is a burning solution that's compatible with more than 3,000 DVD and CD burners. Burn data and audio from different file types (WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, FLAC, WavPack, and CDA). Burn and save ISO files, open and save your project to disk, verify content, print compilations, copy DVDs, and import your audio compilation from M3U and ASX playlists.

The drives supported include dual-layer DVD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM (SCSI, IDE, EIDE, and USB 1.0 and 2.0).

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CDBurnerXP Pro

  CDBurnerXP Pro is a free CD/DVD burning solution. With this software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.

Writes all kind of mediums apart from double-layer DVD (follows in next version). Burning video-DVDs is limited.

Burn audio-CDs with & without gaps
Burn on the fly / Burn-proof
Supports  IDE, USB, Firewire and SCSI drives.
Rip Audio-CDs to harddrive
Obtain track-information from Internet
Burn and create ISO-files
Customizeable with many settings
Data verification after burn
Create bootable discs
100% freeware - no adware or restrictions
bin/nrg->ISO converter
Simple cover printing and much more!
 

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Windows 2000 or Later

DVD Flick

  DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks, subtitles as well as a menu for easier navigation.
 

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  ISO IMAGES  

All Versions of Windows Supported

Virtual
Clone Drive

Optical Media Emulation

  Virtual Clone Drive doesn’t help you create CD copies, but instead it has the ability to create a virtual drive, so that you can easily mount images and browse the files without too much effort. It acts just like any other physical DVD drive, but the main difference is that you can easily insert a “disc” by double clicking on the image file stored on your computer.

Supports all common image formats such as ISO, BIN, CCD.

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DAEMON
Tools Lite

Optical Media Emulation

   DAEMON Tools is an advanced application for Microsoft Windows which provides one of the best optical media emulation in the industry. DAEMON Tools enables you to use your CD/DVD images as if they were already burned to CD/DVD.

Emulate virtual CD/DVD-ROM/HD DVD and Blu-ray drives or create ISO, MDS/MDF and MDX image files from original discs inserted in physical CD/DVD/HD DVD or Blu-ray drives.
 

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All Versions of Windows Supported

ISO Buster

  The Ultimate CD & DVD data recovery tool

IsoBuster is a highly specialized yet easy to use CD and DVD data recovery tool.  It supports all CD and DVD formats.

IsoBuster is must-have-software for every PC user and is deliberately kept low priced to be able to offer a solution for everybody, even if it is much used in the professional optical and data forensics world

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Windows 2000 or Later

Active
ISO Burner

  Active ISO Burner is a simple-to-use dialog-style software to burn CD/DVD/Blue Ray ISO images compatible with the ISO 9660 standard. Automated burning is also supported.

The freeware application allows you to burn an ISO image files to CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, CD-RW, DVD-RW, DL DVD+RW, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

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Windows 2000 or Later

LC ISO
Creator

  LC ISO Creator is a very small program that creates ISO files from CD/DVD-ROM.

Just insert your CD/DVD, select your optical drive from the drop down box (if not automatically selected) and click the 'Create ISO' button. Finally enter the file name of the ISO image you are about to create, then sit back and let the program do it job!

  CD/DVD LABELLING  

Windows 2000 or Later

LightScribe
Simple Labeller

   LightScribe simple Labeller is a free program to laser-etch images onto LightScribe media.

LightScribe is an innovative technology that uses a special disc drive and media to burn labels directly onto CDs and DVDs.

Because the labels are laser-etched—not printed—there's no ink, no smudging, and no peeling. All LightScribe label designs appear as grayscale images.
 

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Windows XP and below

ExPressIt SE

   ExpressIt SE is a free DVD and CD labeling software package, it is a cut down version of  PressIt's popular ExpressIt software.

ExPressit SE is a Java based application, and requires the Sun Java Virtual Machine (JVM / JRE), which is available as a free download, simply click here to go to my 'PlugIns & AddOns' section where a link to the Java download is listed. 

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Windows 2000 or Later

Undercover
XP

  Undercover XP is a small program to easily print CD and DVD covers. It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP formats and can automatically scale front covers, back covers, front + inside, inlays, DVD Boxes, Digital Pictures and CD/DVD labels to the correct sizes. Other formats can be easily added via a graphical format editor.
 

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