DVDs and CDs are still used as a standard storage medium by people who wish to store their stuff for longer periods of time. DVDS are mostly popular as a safe place to keep all your personal data such as photos or videos or even to keep a copy of your favorite movie and music collections.
Although USB allow writing and rewriting of data and more storage, CDs still have a place of its own. Data has to be burnt to a CD or DVD. You can't just copy paste a file or folder and expect the CD to store it.
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Burning can be done with many CD/DVD burning tools available. Here are some of them.
ImgBurn can be used to burn images or text files into a DVD or CD. It is a free tool and is compatible with Windows 10, 8.1, 8 and 7 and even the older versions such as Windows XP. The application is light weight. However, the customization options are limited.
There are different modes you can work upon in ImgBurn; Read mode where you can read a disc to an image file. In Write mode, you can write a picture file to a disc. There is a Verify mode where you can check if a disc is 100% readable. And you can also have ImgBurn compare it against another given image file to see whether the actual data is correct or not.
Using ImgBurn, you can work with formats such as BIN, CCD, CDI, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI. It can also be used to burn Audio CDs of any of the file types supported via DirectShow / ACM - including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA, and WV. HD and Blu-Ray video discs can also be created.
You can also run it on Linux using Wine. Several images can be burnt, all at once using a queue system that ImgBurn offers.
AnyBurn works with Windows 10, 8.1, 8,7 or Windows XP. Apart from burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu Ray discs, AnyBurn can rip CD to MP3 /FLAC or WMA files. Altogether, it supports around 30 formats such as ISO, BIN, CUE, VMDK, VHD, VDI, IMG, DMG, VCD, WIM, and much more!.
You can also create bootable USB drive with this. You have options to create image files from hard disk files or CD / DVD / BD discs. It is a free tool and is quite easy to use with a primary interface, and it is very fast to work with. You can't however, directly burn video discs other than video folders. Although, the full options are available on BurnAware Premium and BurnAware Professional versions, the basic and most necessary burning options are available with the free version. You can create text, audio, DVD video and BDMV/AVCHD, or have disc spanning for
simple backups, burn images.
There are options to create regular and bootable ISOs. The best thing about BurnAware tool is that it is a quite efficient one, even with the free version! Data can be written into Blu-Ray discs, CDs, DVDs with so much ease. You can also erase or format re writable discs or burn data across multiple discs or extract files from multi session or corrupted discs, saving a lot of time.
It has a very elegant user interface that makes the user handle the tool comfortably. It supports almost all the latest Windows platforms.
And the Pro edition, which is basically for business use offers a lot of advanced options. These include BOOT settings, UDF partition and versions, ISO levels and restrictions, session selection, CD-Text for track and disc, byte by byte verification, direct copying, disc spanning and much more.
Nero Burning ROM is a very popular burning software. You can burn CDs, DVDs, and Blu Ray discs. Also with Nero, it is easy to rip audio CDs and convert music files. For oversized files, you can always split them and burn into multiple discs. Different drive types like CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Discs can be combined to reduce them to fewer in number.
The new Nero Burning ROM allows recording on up to 32 different recorders simultaneously. It can also create auto-starting discs. Nero also considers data safety and protection with encryption, password protection, and digital signatures.
And with the latest Nero Air Burn mobile app, you can wirelessly send content from iOS or Android smartphones and tablets to PCs via Nero Burning ROM. Now that's cool isn't it?
Winx DVD Author is a useful DVD tool primarily to make free tool DVD videos from movie files. Although the interface and customize options are limited; it is still a reliable option for storing movies. This tool is easy to use for beginners with crisp and clear instructions for each step during the entire burning process.
It supports MKV, MP4, FLV, MPEG, MOV, RM, RMVB, H.264, AVI to DVD and other popular formats. The tool has good speed with the software taking than one hour to make a full 4.3 G high-quality DVD, while not compromising on the audio and video effects. You can also create DVDs with your favorite images with pictures on the background.
CDBurnerXP can burn CDs, Blu-Ray, and HD-DVDs. You can also burn and create ISOs. There is data verification feature after burning process. It supports all modern Windows versions. You can also spread the data across multiple discs. It allows burning of data on CD-R/CD-RW/DVD+R/DVD-R/DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM/BD/HD-DVD, including double layer mediums.
It allows supports burning data on permanent backup M-Discs. MP3-CDs can be used to store many audio files on one single disc. Data is automatically verified after the burning process. You can also drag and drop files directly from any Windows Explorer window. It supports formats like MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, WMA, APE, MPC, WV (WavPack), ALAC (Apple Lossless).
DeepBurner creates videos and audio from almost all kinds of formats. It also has advanced DVD menu creation wizard and is capable of making and printing DVD labels and booklets so that your DVD is capable of playing on any standalone DVD Player. And everything else you need to make DVD video capable of playing on any stand-alone DVD player.DeepBurner is available in free and paid versions.
The Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE allows burning CDs quickly. The main feature of this burning tool is its simplicity. It offers many features of some of the paid tools for free.
There is a simple file-based backup tool with encryption and disk spanning support and options to create or burn images in various formats (ISO, IMG, CUE, ASHDISC). You can also crop videos and add soundtracks, subtitles and even create slideshows.
Power2Go is a CD burning tool with a very attractive user interface that makes you fall in love with it. Comes with an attractive Interface and features similar to many paid burning tools. It has multiple writing capabilities along with extreme protection with 256-bit encryption. Almost all standard formats and ISO files are supported.
You can change the default speeds and other customization at your ease. Easy drag-and-drop is available with the Desktop Burning Gadget. You can also the kind of disc you want to burn, and then drag files, folders, discs, music or video onto the gadget. System recovery disc options are available to recover your PC system if it corrupts.
NCH Express Burn allows very fast and reliable burning. It runs on Mac OS X 10.4 apart from being compatible with major Windows versions. With direct digital recording being perfect, the audio quality is maintained while burning.
You have options to normalize audio volume and customize the pause between tracks when burning audio CDs. All standard audio/video formats are supported.
Most of the CD or DVD burning tools are free and easy to use with simple and comprehensive instructions. Get any of these and store the priceless moments that you had with your loved ones forever! Or make your signature collection of movies, videos or images.
