Silicon Empire Alternatives
Silicon Empire is described as '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' and is an app in the Backup & Sync category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Silicon Empire for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac and GNOME. The best alternative is ImgBurn, which is free. Other great apps like Silicon Empire are CDBurnerXP (Free Personal), Brasero (Free, Open Source), AnyBurn (Free) and K3b (Free, Open Source).
- ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application (39 languages) that everyone should have in their toolkit. ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats. It can burn Audio CDs from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
Discontinued
Even if the developer, in a post on the official forum dated February 2015 (http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?/topic/21614-imgburn-v2580-released/page-2#entry155228), said the project is not dead, the last version of ImgBurn, 2.5.8.0, was released years ago, on the 16th June 2013. It can be still downloaded from the official website and works on Windows 10.
Bundleware
The installer contains bundled adware. Be careful during the installation: Forum
- CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free.
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Windows
Bundleware
The default installer contains Opencandy. A version with no third party offers is available in More Download options page.
Discontinued
last updated: Nov 18th 2019, 04:13 GMT
https://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Data-CD-DVD-Burning/CDBurnerXP-Pro-beta.shtml - 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.
- AnyBurn is a light weight but professional CD / DVD / Blu-ray burning software that everyone must have. It provides a free and complete solution for burning.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like computer operating systems.
- BurnAware is a full-fledged, easy-to-use burning software which allows users to write all types of files such as digital photos, pictures, archives, documents, music and videos to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs (including M-Disc).
Bundleware
The installer contains bundled adware. Be careful during the installation: Forum
- 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. Create, rip, copy, burn, edit, share, and upload online.
- 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.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- 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.
- PowerISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file processing tool, which allows you to open, extract, create, edit, compress, encrypt, split and convert ISO files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive. It can process almost all CD-ROM image files including ISO and BIN.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
Bundleware
The installer contains ads. Be careful during the installation: Forum
- dBpoweramp contains a multitude of audio tools in one: CD Ripper, Music Converter, ID Tag Editor and Windows audio shell enhancements.