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Alcohol

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Alcohol is a powerful Windows CD and DVD burning software that makes it easy to create backups of DVDs* and CDs. In addition, the program lets you store your most used CDs as images on your computer, so you can call them up at the click of a button.

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License model

  • FreemiumProprietary

Application types

Platforms

  • Windows
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.

5 / 5 Avg rating (2)
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Features

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  1.  Portable
  2.  Built-in Burner
  3.  DVD Burner
  4.  CD/DVD Burning
  5.  Disc Burner
  6.  Virtual Disk

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Alcohol information

  • Developed by

    Alcohol-Soft
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs up to $43 + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

    37 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Backup & SyncCD/DVD Tools

Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Alcohol, and it has gotten 127 likes

Alcohol was added to AlternativeTo by Journeyman on Apr 16, 2009 and this page was last updated May 2, 2022. Alcohol is sometimes referred to as Alcohol 120%, Alcohol 120, Alcohol 52%, Alcohol 52.

Comments and Reviews

   
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PhilippeT
  
Top positive commentAug 9, 2021

It's an OG disk burning tool

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Hakan
  
Positive commentMar 28, 2019

Never really dig it, but few times I made use of it. It was alright, did its job.

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Tank
CommentMay 1, 2011

The free version is limited to 6 virtual drives, instead of 31, and is limited to burning with 2 drives simultaneously.

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scatterbrain
CommentOct 20, 2009

clean setup, full shell support. even for image formats alcohol is not suppost to work with. nice icons. quick mounting... i tried winCDemu, virtual clone cd, gizmo center and of course daemon tools (for quite a while) happy i found this piece.

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What is Alcohol?

Alcohol is a powerful Windows CD and DVD burning software that makes it easy to create backups of DVDs* and CDs. In addition, the program lets you store your most used CDs as images on your computer, so you can call them up at the click of a button. It includes Pre-Mastering function and support for Blu-ray format.

There are different editions of Alcohol:

  • Alcohol 52%, CD & DVD emulation software, is available in two versions, free and 30-day trial. The free version contains an optional adware toolbar bundled and is limited to 6 virtual drives.

  • Alcohol 120%, the complete optical disc authoring program and disk image emulator. It combines all functions of Alcohol 52% with added DVD & CD burning capabilites.