Ah, the good old days when the hottest thing on the block was a freshly burned CD-ROM with some MP3s on it. Software to make that happen, such as Nero Burning ROM, was the coolest software on the planet. Well, the world has changed.
Newer versions of Nero has dubious installation prompts for bundleware and Nero is simply not the best anymore. Try some open source alternatives that can be inspected and guaranteed for the safety of both your computer and your sanity.
Another major flaw of Nero is that it's only available on Windows, so if you are looking for an alternative for Linux, Mac, or other platforms, we have you covered, of course!
Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly. Features - Supports multiple backends: cdrtools, growisofs and libburn(optional). Note: compiling against libburn is not enough.
K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX CD/DVDs. It can also perform direct disc-to-disc copies. The program has many default settings which can be customized by more experienced users.
Lightweight CD/DVD burning software designed for Xfce, but it runs on Gnome, KDE etc as well. It can blank CDs and DVDs, burn and create ISO images and burn personal compositions of data. At the moment it is at heavy development.
SimpleBurn is a minimalistic application for burning and extracting CDs and DVDs.
Silicon Empire is set of tools to Burn, Copy, Backup, Manage and … your optical discs like CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays. When you start working with silicon Empire Just feels everything done easily and quickly with high quality. You Burn, Copy, Mount and … your discs in few clicks and short time. Just Test it to Understand … Silicon Empire Windows Version and Mac OS X Version not released yet, but you can compile silicon source on this platforms manualy.
cdw is an ncurses front-end for command-line tools: cdrecord/wodim, mkisofs/genisoimage, growisofs, dvd+rw-mediainfo, dvd+rw-format, xorriso. It utilizes ncurses library to build user-friendly interface and it can be used in UNIX terminal window or in terminal emulator (like konsole, xterm, rxvt or gnome-terminal) in X Window environment. cdw supports only ISO9660 filesystem for optical media. Other filesystem for optical media are not supported nor recognized.
GnomeBaker is a CD/DVD burning application for the Gnome desktop.
Recorder is a graphical frontend of cdrkit/cdrtools, cdrdao, mkisofs and growisofs. It aims to be simple and easy to use, free of large configurations and useless options, following the KISS principle and offering a disc burning of quality, nothing more.
About BashBurn A long long time ago in a small room in small house in the middle of nowhere in the Swedish countryside, a young man was desperately trying to burn some CDs on his Linux system. Application after application failed him, and finally he said to himself: “Screw this, I’m writing something myself” And so it began. In the beginning BashBurn (Or Magma as it was called then) could not do very much except from burn a data CD. Barely.
Basically, it is no more than a Terminal User Interface (TUI) frontend based of the CD burning shell script called BashBurn for Linux®; this originally does not have the best eye-candy CD-burning UI, nevertheless, MyBashBurn uses dialog boxes/functions which draws (using ncurses) windows onto the screen. MyBashBurn dialog boxes offer good functionality, and has very good capabilities of automatically finding dependencies and auto detecting devices CD/DVD RW.
Nrg2Iso is a linux utils for converting CD (or DVD) image generated by Nero Burning Rom to ISO format. Thanks to Guenter Knauf, there's a Win32 binaries too.
ManDVD is an application for creating video DVDs from a wide variety of video formats. Using this application, you can also create eye-pleasing menus with video, audio, and chapters. Available languages: English, Swedish, Portuguese, German.
Bombono DVD is a DVD authoring program for Linux and Windows. It is made easy to use and has nice and clean GUI (Gtk). The main features of Bombono DVD are: - Excellent video viewer: Timeline and Monitor - Real WYSIWYG Menu Editor with live thumbnails - Comfortable Drag-n-Drop support - Transcoding, if necessary (from AVI/MKV/MOV/MPEG4...
X-CD-Roast is a flexible frontend for optical disc authoring. It combines command line tools like "cdrecord", "cdda2wav", "readcd" and "mkisofs" into a nice GTK based graphical user interface. Features included: -Portable: runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, HPUX, Irix, AIX etc.
FlBurn is an optical disc burning software for linux based on the libraries FLTK and libburnia.
