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What is the best free CD/DVD burning software for Windows 7?

Marty999
Marty999 Posts: 728 Forumite
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I was looking at ImgBurn but understand the CD copying could be easier. Any other recommendations please?
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  • Donnie
    Donnie Posts: 9,862 Forumite
    InfraRecorder?
  • BillScarab
    BillScarab Posts: 6,027 Forumite
    The inbuilt burning software works pretty well for me.

    You could try Deepburner or as yous said before imgburn is pretty good.
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  • SmudgeUK
    SmudgeUK Posts: 264 Forumite
    I always use Nero, you get oem copies around the place i got a few here, if needed
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  • Marty999
    Marty999 Posts: 728 Forumite
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    BillScarab wrote: »
    The inbuilt burning software works pretty well for me.

    Yes I have used this successfully for burning CDs, but I can't see an easy way to copy them..?
  • Marty999
    Marty999 Posts: 728 Forumite
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    SmudgeUK wrote: »
    I always use Nero, you get oem copies around the place i got a few here, if needed

    I was quite happy using Nero under XP but when I tried to install it on Windows 7 I got a message saying there are known compatibility issues. I am using version 6 so I guess this is just too old now for W7. Which version are you running?
  • markharding557
    markharding557 Posts: 3,116 Forumite
    Marty999 wrote: »
    I was looking at ImgBurn but understand the CD copying could be easier. Any other recommendations please?
    depends on if you pay or not.
    free: cdbunerxp or infrarecorder or
    if paid for nero or roxio creator
  • davb
    davb Posts: 1,293 Forumite
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    Marty999 wrote: »
    I was looking at ImgBurn but understand the CD copying could be easier. Any other recommendations please?

    Imgburn will do it fine - it is just two operations:
    source CD > image file
    image file > destination CD

    Depends what you are doing, but it may be an advantage to create an image anyway if you want to run a media server.
  • Conrad
    Conrad Posts: 33,137 Forumite
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    I'm a music producer (by night) and use NERO. Used to have a very expensive hardware CD burner, but find NERO running of a PC with 17 chips very reliable.
  • Marty999
    Marty999 Posts: 728 Forumite
    500 Posts
    Conrad wrote: »
    I'm a music producer (by night) and use NERO. Used to have a very expensive hardware CD burner, but find NERO running of a PC with 17 chips very reliable.
    Pardon? Sorry but I'm not sure what you mean.
  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
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    davb wrote: »
    Imgburn will do it fine - it is just two operations:
    source CD > image file
    image file > destination CD

    Depends what you are doing, but it may be an advantage to create an image anyway if you want to run a media server.

    Does that work with copy protected cds too?
    :idea:
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