Have you spent few dollars on purchasing a CD/DVD burner like NERO, only to find out later how it fell short on your expectations? If you're someone who likes to own everything free, you might want to try BurnAware Free, an inexpensive (read, free) alternative to the CD/DVD burning utilities available in the market today.
BurnAware enables you to accomplish most common disc burning tasks, such as, burn data to almost any type of disc, including blu-ray (BD-R/ BD-RE); create audio CDs from WAV, MP3, or WMA files; create and burn disc images (.ISOs); write DVD-video files (like VOB files) to a DVD; or write multi-session discs to all supported media formats.
The interface is neat and simple to use. The best part is it does not contain any annoying spyware, adware, or banners. The landing screen contains different burning options. Once you select an option, the screen minimizes to your taskbar (similar to Nero and Roxio) and a new window appears, allowing you to customize whatever task you selected.
Using BurnAware, you can leverage full support for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD formats. The utility works on all the current hardware interfaces and contains auto-verification of written files.
Currently in beta, BurnAware Free operates on Windows 98/NT/2000/XP and Vista (32 and 64 bit), and supports unicode for multi-byte languages.