Here are two CD/DVD burning programs, if anyone still burns CD/DVDs. I still do now and then, but not like I used too. When I bought my first CD burner (DVDs wasn't around yet), it cost me $1,500 and would burn at 2X. Also, CDs back then cost $10.00 a pop and held 650 MBs. but then did go up to 700 MBs. Back then you just go to your local store and pick up CDs, you had to order them.
Back then I was burning other people's "stuff" they were saving to CDs for $100 a pop. Of course, as the price on burners came down and CD/DVD burners came out, it finally got to the point I gave it up. Also, back then I was running a BBS which I had 20 CD drives hooked up to it so people could download shareware programs, pictures, etc. I still have the three 6-disk Pioneer changers in the attic.
I also used a lot of Zip-drives, and tape drives for backing thing up. I also still have one tape drive here somewhere. Then when BIG internal/external hard drive came on the market pretty much everything else kind of went south.
Now everyone is using a cloud to store everything, but I don't. The only thing I use the cloud for is if I want to share something that is a pretty big file size. Everything I keep or backup, I do it on my own drives, that's because the cloud there is no guarantee that when you want to access your stuff, it will be there.
I read a number of times were people bought movies from Netflix and Netflix ended up pulling the movie for one reason or another. Then I just read the other day where people couldn't access their stuff on OneDrive. People had photo library's, programs, movies, backups, etc., and they had no access to there stuff. If you want to use the cloud, that's fine, I stick to my own external hard drive.
Even large hard drives have a drawback compared to CD/DVDs, that's the fact if it crashes, you lose everything, where as a CD/DVD, you can burn it, put it in its case and store it away in a safe place. At least if a CD/DVD gets scratched and won't load or something, at least you didn't lose all your stuff. Things I consider important or want to keep, I'd make a backup CD/DVD just in case.
ImgBurn
ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!
It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task:
Read - Read a disc to an image file
Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc
Write - Write an image file to a disc
Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct
Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing
ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CCD, CDI, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.
It can burn Audio CD's from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM - including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV.
You can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease.
It supports Unicode folder/file names, so you shouldn't run in to any problems if you're using an international character set.
ImgBurn supports all the Microsoft Windows OS's - Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.
It's a very flexible application with several advanced features that are often lacking in other tools, especially when it comes to burning DVD Video discs. It supports all the latest drives without the need for updates (including booktype / bitsetting / advanced settings on many of the major ones - i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, LG, NEC, Optiarc, Pioneer, Plextor, Samsung, Sony).
There is an image queue system for when you're burning several images (which you can automatically share between multiple drives if you have more than one) and an easy-to-use layer break selection screen for double layer DVD Video jobs. The Automatic Write Speed feature allows you store your favourite burn speed settings on a per 'Media ID' basis, right down to a drive by drive level. Data captured during the burn (write speed, buffer levels etc) can be displayed / analysed using DVDInfoPro.
Whilst ImgBurn is designed to work perfectly straight out of the box, advanced users will appreciate just how configurable it is.
Oh and let's not forget the best thing about it.... it's 100% FREE ;-)
CDBurnerXP
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