BurnAware Free Edition 1.2.9

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BurnAware allows you to easily perform the most common disc burning operations: write to all CD/DVD media types, including Blu-Ray (BD-R/BD-RE); create and burn disc images; write multi-session discs; verify the integrity of files; burn your compilations directly on optical media, without having to wait for hard drive staging first and much more. Its proprietary burning algorithm provides the highest level or fault-tolerance, error-free burning and data integrity. BurnAware Free Edition has a modern interface and supports Windows NT/2000/XP and Vista (32 and 64 bit). The application is free and contains absolutely no adware or annoying banners.

Version 1.2.9 automatically switches to UDF mode while using Blu-ray discs.

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Editor's review of BurnAware Free Edition

Without a doubt, BurnAware Free is one of the best freeware burning apps around. It has all the basic features you need for burning, and can easily handle ripping data discs, audio CDs, DVDs, and ISO discs. Beyond that, though, it's a bit light on features.

The main interface is based on the Windows XP Control Panel layout, so it should be instantly recognizable. Under each heading is a link to the control panel for that choice. We were disappointed that drag-and-drop was not available, but the internal system for adding files was not clunky. Audio files get automatically converted from MP3, WMA, or WAV as they're burned to disc. There's also a Tools section, which has two erase modes for rewritables, and a Hardware Info subsection that gives a huge amount of detail on both your hardware's burning abilities and the type of disc in the drive.

Neither pretty nor ugly, BurnAware handles all the major, basic functions you could want a burning app to control, and the price of absolutely zero is absolutely impossible to argue against. Give it a shot.

User reviews of BurnAware Free Edition

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  BurnAware Free Edition

  terrible itll waste your blank disks

  by: chainsore on 01-May-2008 09:13:19 AM

  Pros: free it works once in 10 tries

  Cons: it works 10% of the time, otherwise it gives failed to burn errors and leaves your bin full of wwasted dvd-r disks. terrible software. roxio or avs were good, nero i hate, ashampoo wastes didks too...i need free good burning software help!!

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  BurnAware Free Edition

  Works well!

  by: joshuasdee on 06-May-2008 04:51:09 PM

  Pros: I like it! Works great on my Vista computer with no problems. I'd recommend it.

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  BurnAware Free Edition

  excellent product ,definitely better than nero

  by: sw_tester on 30-Apr-2008 11:32:08 PM

  Pros: i use the paid product nero.i wanted to burn linux os iso. so in nero smart essentials i clicked burn image to disc and followed instrutions-result ,nero burned back another iso image as image.nrg on my hard disk!!! so i was desperate for an iso burner. donno whether vista has a built-in iso burner. fortunately got burn aware on download.com. this product did the task immediately.

  -the UI is very friendly. there is one click to burn iso image to disc. immediately lets us choose and starts the burning process. the UI is also good-looking

  -most importantly its very fast than paid products about 3x fast i'd say, and we can work on other programs while this product does its job quitely,unlike other paid products which tend to freeze the system.

  Cons: none

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  BurnAware Free Edition

  Great. Fast, Easy, and Free.

  by: carsonhw on 18-Mar-2008 10:10:43 AM

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  I like this program!

  by: rronenow on 23-Apr-2008 07:26:00 PM

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