What are the best options these days for burning CDs and DVD's?

In My Humble Opinion
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I’ve been using Win 7 to burn smalll cd’s. So far I haven’t trusted it for 3 or 4 gigs of data for a dvd.

I have an old copy of Roxio. Roxio cost me a lot of money with their ignorant defaults for burning speeds. The stupid thing tried burning like 12x or 16x and wouldn’t let me change it. :mad: Makes me sick too think of the money down the drain with ruined blank dvd’s. I need something that will let me set my own burning speed. I much rather burn at 4x and know without any doubt the darn thing will be successfully burned. I could care less if it takes an extra 20 minutes burn. I want it right. speed doesn’t matter a flip to me.

What are people using these days? Win 7’s burner is pretty simplistic. Select the files, right click and select burn. But is it reliable for 3 or 4 gig burns? You get your buffer overruns (and ruined blank dvd’s) with big burns. A small 400 or 500 Meg burn is usually not an issue.

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I use CDBurnerXP for burning (in conjunction with VirtualCloneDrive for handling ISOs, AnyDVD for doing that neat thing that it does).

CDBurnerXP went through a patch about two years ago where it burned coasters for a while but has been reliable and solid for me in about 6 years of use.

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I use “Ashampoo Burning Studio.” It’s free, and hasn’t failed me yet.

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I use ImgBurn. It’s low profile. The default “burning complete” sound is a bit obnoxious though.

In the past, Nero or Alcohol, but those got a little bloated.

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I’ll try burning a full dvd with win 7’s software this weekend. If it gives me any problems then I’ll try one of the free programs mentioned here.

I agree. Nero and Roxio are horribly bloated. Its a bad idea to buy either.