CD/DVD Tools
Being able to play back compact discs, digital video discs, and Blu-ray Discs is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what you can do with them on computers with the power of software. This category includes tools to burn, rip, or copy disks, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs; create audio CDs, DVD videos, or slideshows; extract audio and video files; and edit, convert and manage your multimedia collections.
- Alcohol is a powerful Windows CD and DVD burning software that makes it easy to create backups of DVDs* and CDs.
Bundleware
The free version of Alcohol 52% contains an optional adware toolbar bundled. It also installs Smart File Advisor without allowing you to uncheck this option during setup.
- Paid
- Windows
- Nero Burning ROM, commonly called just Nero, is an optical disc authoring program. As of version 6, the program has been a part of Nero software suite.
- Freemake Video Converter lets you convert videos and rip online videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and 50+ sites.
Bundleware
The installer contains OpenCandy. Be careful during the installation: Forum
- Freemium
- Windows
- BurnAware is a full-featured and free burning software to create CD, DVD and Blu-ray of all types, including M-Disc.
Bundleware
The installer contains bundled adware. Be careful during the installation: Forum
- Freemium
- Windows
- DVDShrink is software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc.
Discontinued
Development was discontinued in May 2005 resulting in the final version. Latest OFFICIAL Version, 3.2.0.15, can be downloaded from Filehippo.
- Free
- Windows
- Ashampoo Burning Studio is a versatile software to burn CDs, DVDs and BDs. Movie discs with animated menus, slide shows and audio discs are also equally easy to create.
- VVV is an application that catalogs the content of removable volumes like CD and DVD disks for off-line searching.
- The sound conversion application for the GNOME environment.
- MagicISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file creating/editing/extracting tool.
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 5.5(build 281), released in February 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- Freemium
- Windows
- AnyDVD works in your computer's background to automatically remove the copy protection off a DVD movie, allowing you to rip the DVD onto your computer.
- Free application that converts audio files to MP3, AAC, AC3, E-AC3, WMA, FLAC, M4A, OGG, Opus, WavPack, AIFF, MKA or WAV format.
- Lightweight CD/DVD burning software designed for Xfce, but it runs on Gnome, KDE etc as well.
- DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool.
Discontinued
As of Oct 2015, the project seems to be abandoned and the installed versions do not function. Last version, 1.3.0.7, released in June 2009, can be still downloaded from SourceForge
- Free • Open Source
- Windows