CDRoller

CDRoller Soft Co. Ltd.

CdRoller is a tool that will solve a lot of problems, because it allows us to recover the data of a CD in bad conditions. Do you remember the scratched cd with your travel photos which was under the sofa and wasn't read any more? Look for it, it's time to recover your desired photos. CDRoller even recovers CD and DVD data created by standalone devices that record directly onto disks, including: Sony digital cameras, DVD camcorders, CDRoller rescues the data from scratched, damaged or defective discs, supports Joliet extensions,... And all this under an easy to use and intuitive interface which will allow novices to use the program as if they were experts.

CopyToDVD

VSO Software

Do you want to burn a cd/dvd with your files? Do you think it is a difficult process? Don’t worry, now you can download this simple application and you will burn your cds’s as if you were an advanced user. CopyToDVD provides you with a variety of ways to create CD/DVDs, such as user friendly frontend, integration to shell, or FileDepot technology. It supports all CD and DVD formats: CD,CDR, CDRW,DVD,... and you can add files, audio, video or anything you want. Of course, if you are an advanced user you will be able to access to more features and customize your CD or DVD. In addition, if you are a developer, you can integrate CopyToDVD in any application.

OrangeCD Player

Firetongue Software

OrangeCD Player is a lite CD player which remains in the system tray and lets you manage your sounds right from the system tray. From now on you will not have to open Windows Media Player or Winamp when you want to listen to an Audio CD. This minimalist player can fill in the information having to do with the songs being played and show them on screen (title, artist, cover art,...) In addition, you will be able to setup the buttons which will appear on the system tray, so you can decide if you want a lot of buttons or just the play button. OrangeCD Player can be really useful because it doesn’t disturb you when working and doesn’t consume a lot of resources.

FinalBurner

ProtectedSoft

FinalBurner could be a good choice if you want to forget those expensive programs which offer practically the same features with only one and important difference: The price. FinalBurner is free and it offers you all those features you can find in all other CD/DVD burners. Create data, audio, and video disks and burn them onto any type of media: CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL. Don't worry about the process, because it is really easy, just choose what you want to burn (data, movies, music,...) and then, press burn, it will automatically select the burn speed. Without any doubt, you will not miss any feature and you will save a lot of money.

Burn4Free

N/A

Burn4Free is a practical recording tool chosen by many users as the ideal app, due to its features, recording efficiency, and price (it’s completely free). Developed in a clear and intuitive interface, Burn4Free allows for the recording of any CD or DVD. The program allows you to record disk images, audio CDs with supports for WAV, MP3, WMA, and OGG formats, data DVDs, etc. In addition, it includes multisession functions, as well as rewritable drive support. With Burn4Free, you can be sure that your recordings will be carried out correctly, since the app includes an exceptional error correction function, in addition to using up very few resources.

InfraRecorder

Christian Kindahl

Infrarecorder is a free CD/DVD burner that features two different interfaces. Choose if you want an advanced view or a simple but effective one. The main window lets you add your files to the disc layout window and then manage and burn the content, while Express mode provides a simpler but quicker means of burning discs. Copy discs on the fly, burn all kind of cds and DVDs, even dual-layer, produce and write image files,... If it is related to cd and dvd burning it can be managed by Infrarecorder, the free DVD writer that will make you forget Nero and you will not have to touch your wallet.

Album cover finder

Amphonic Designs

Album cover finder is a very good cover searcher, very easy to use and really accurate. You only have to insert the artist and the album, and Album Cover Finder will find your desired cover in just a few seconds. The covers are saved as small bmp format pictures, so they are not very good to be printed, but perfect to be used in your cataloger. In addition, it will show you the tracklist for the desired album.

Jetbee

Complex New Technologies

Nowadays, we're used to the famous disk burning suites for making copies of our disks or for creating new ones. However, there are high-quality alternatives available in more light-weight versions and they're just as good, if not better than the other applications. This is one of them. Jetbee is a disk burning tool for Windows that allows you to make copies of your CDs and DVDs and save images to them for later use. It's a seemingly simple app, but when you begin to use it, you'll see that it offers a wide variety of options. You can copy disks, create, or save virtual disk images easily thanks to the integrated double file browser that can be used to quickly and easily find your files. All of these features make Jetbee a fantastic disk burning tool that is worth trying for yourself.

AutoPlay Menu Builder

Linasoft

With this complete utility, you can freely create the interface for the menus of your CD-ROMs without the need of any type of experience. You will only have to change and move the elements to your taste. The program includes a series of predetermined templates that vary according to the type of menu you want to design. You can design menus for CDs with samples of a software product, a movie or a tutorial. The templates are completely customizable. You can add, delete or modify any element that can be found in them. But if you don't want to establish anything, you can create the menu from a blank page. Once you've created the design and the interface, you can insert the elements like executables, films, direct accesses to web pages, audios, etc. Creating personalized menus for your CD-ROMs has never been this simple!

cdrtfe

Oliver Valencia

Cdrtfe offers a good interface for a group of command lines that allows you to burn CDs and DVDs. The names of the applications are cdrtools, Mode2CDMaker and VCDImager. The burning activities that can be performed through Cdrtfe are the following: Data CDs and DVDs, including rewritable CD; audio CDs, VCDs, SVCD and videoDVD; and XCD (a burning format that allows you to burn a 13%more of data. Cdrtfe can be also used to rip songs from Audio CDs and transform them into several audio formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC.

Xilisoft Ripper Pack Platinum

Xilisoft

InfraRecorder Portable

Christian Kindahl

Are you tired of complex CD/DVD recording applications? Then, you'll welcome InfraRecorder Portable. This portable version of one of the most comfortable CD/DVD recording programs is the perfect choice to have in your USB Stick. The program is very easy to use and is interface is really intuitive. No matter if you are a novice, you will ebe able to record CDs andDVDs without any problem. Furthermore, as it is a portable version, you can store it in your USB stick and use it on any computer just pluging it in. It consumes very few resources and it does its job very well, that's why we think it's a good solution as a portable CD/DVD recording program.

Magic DVD Copier

Magic DVD Software

Magic DVD Copier is aburning tool for DVDs that offers an interesting branch of options through a simple but effective interface that simplifies the process. Create exact copies of your DVDs in just 2 clicks and wait for your DV burner to eject your new DVD. The new DVD will have the same quality of the original one. Magic DVD Copier offers the possibility of burning DVD9 into DVD 4,7 in two ways: by compressing the video and loosing a bit of quality or by dividing the original DVD into two DVDs. Finally, Magic DVD Copier eliminates some restrictions included in the original DVD, such as CSS, Region, RCE or Sony ARccOS.

Apollo Audio DVD Creator

Apollo Multimedia

If CDs are not enough for all your music Apollo Audio DVD Creator offers you an useful alternative. Apollo Audio DVD Creator allows you to create audio DVDs that can store more than 1000 tracks. It is very easy to use, you can decide how you are going to add and burn your songs. You can add songs from a folder, the whole folder or extract audio tracks from audio cds in the drive. Thanks to its intuitive and accurate interface, we will access to its advanced features very easily and fast. It includes an editor which you will be able to give your personal touch with. Now you can enjoy even more music thanks to Apollo Audio DVD Creator

Totally Free Burner

DanDans

Totally Free Burner is a CD/DVD burner that stands out because of its low resource consumption and because it only offers the most basic options. That doesn't mean that Totally Free Burner is a residual program, in fact it can be extremely useful for all those novice users who want to copy a CD but they don't know how to do it and feel lost when using advanced burning applications with lots of buttons and options. If you are going to use the burner only sometimes, Totally Free Burner is a very good choice, it will cost no money and you'll have great results in a snap. Totally Free Burner supports CD and DVD burning and it offers four basic options to burn Audio, Data, Video or images (ISO, BIN/CUE or VideoDVD). Finally, if you are using rewritable CDs, you can erase it. If you don't want an advanced burning application and you only need a basic program, this can be a perfect choice.

CD-DVD Diagnostic

InfinaDyne

You probably already know that your CDs or DVDs won't last forever and that the passage of time can damage them the same way just as a lot of other supports. As a consequence, the data, photographs, music or documents you saved on those disks can suffer a loss that would be difficult to recover without a program like CD/DVD Diagnostic. CD/DVD Diagnostic is an application that scans CDs and DVDs and allows you to recover the content of the disks even if they are physically damaged. The program works with various usual formats (ISO, UDF, HFS, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, etc.) and allows you to recover the damaged files in various sessions so you can do it when the equipment is free. CD/DVD Diagnostic offers various ways to recover the files depending if they are damaged or not (you can also make safety copies) and even includes some minor diagnostic tools that can help you to analyze the trustworthiness of a disk before saving something on it. In short, an interesting program for those who often use their recorder.

Smart Audio Burner

SmartSoft

For anyone who doesn't frequently burn music CDs, it's easy to forget how to use some of those complicated CD/DVD burning programs that are loaded with extra options and features. Smart Audio Burner is a program for converting and burning MP3 tracks to normal audio CDs. The great thing about this program is that it's really easy to use, and includes just the right amount of options. You may not be able to specify things like burning speed or the delay time between tracks, but Smart Audio Burner is a great option for anyone who just wants to burn a CD without making their life difficult in the process. Its interface is very clear, so all you have to do is select the tracks that you want to burn from the Smart Audio Burner file explorer before launching the operation.

DVD Cover Plus

TopByteLabs

Nowadays, burning a CD or DVD is as usual as listening to music or watch a movie but sometimes you'll prefer to know your burn DVDs and CDs at first sight instead of having to read the handwritten title. DVD Cover Plus is an excellent choice for those people who want to have their discs identified and ready to be shown to any friend. You'll be able to create any cover from any picture, add text and edit the composition, so you'll have an easy-to-recognise cover which will make your CD and DVD collection to be more beautiful than ever. Finally you'll be able to print them from DVD Cover Plus so you won't need a third party program.

Amok DVD Shrinker

Dirk Paehl

Do you want to copy a DVD but it's very large? AmoK DVD Shrinker shrinks DVDs up to one fifth of the original size without any noticeable quality reduction. Thanks to that size reduction the copy will be able to be burned on a 4.7 GB DVD. You won't loose any information: DVD's menus, subtitles, audio tracks and more stay preserved. Though you can decide the contents you'll include on your own copy. Amok DVD Shrinker is a free program that allows you to eliminate some contents from the original DVD and make it fit a DVD5 so you can copy it and enjoy your own DVD in your DVD player.

Complex Evolution

Complex New Technologies

Autorun Pro Enterprise

Longtion

AutoRun Pro Enterprise is a powerful visual tool to create professional autorun interfaces and presentations for your CD/DVDs. AutoRun Pro Enterprise is a easy to use program which will help us to create and edit professional autorun interfaces and generate autorun files for CD/DVDs. It includes a wizard which is very interesting, it will guide you through the program and you will have its help at any time. It’s so easy, you will only have to click, point, place and test (preview). Furthermore, all is fast and simple. AutoRun Enterprise includes page and object templates and lots and lots of effects to make our interface more attractive. Your CDs will be different when using AutoRun Enterprise.

CD Archiver

Pedro Miguel C. Cardoso

Have you felt that your CD and DVD collection is becoming bigger and bigger? Doe it take you along time to find the DVD you want to view tonight? Take it easy, here is the solution you need. CD Archiver is a free full featured program which will help you when keeping inn order all your cds and dvds. Ok, now you think it will be really difficult to do that, because now you have lots of CDs and DVDs all around your room. But maybe a bit of work now will have its reward a few weeks after ordering all of them. Now you can stay some time introducing all data in this organizer, but when you will want to have one, it will be in your hands at te momment, just writting its name, and it will be shown on screen where it is. In addition, it is really easy to use, the interface is really attractive and intuitive and includes a category tree browser which will make that task even easier. Forget about that time searching and searching your beloved movies, now you can have them n your hands in a matter of seconds.

Adusoft DVD Creator

Adusoft

avi2vcd

John Schlichther

LightScribe System

Hewlett Packard

The ultimate in CD/DVD recording is called LightScribe, a technology that lets you burn labels directly onto your discs, be it a stock image or a fully customized drawing. LightScribe System is the software that allows you to maximize the performance of this technology. It consists of a control panel with all kinds of interesting settings. The LightScribe System is supported on a number of disk drives and recorders. Those that support this technology will display the logo on the tray. You can't just use any disk either, only those which carry the LightScribe logo will work. To print the label, remember to flip the disc over after recording the content. If you do not want to hand draw the image to go onto the CD / DVD, you can download dozens of templates on the application page, some of which are very bright and attractive.

Active ISO Burner

LSoft Technologies Inc.

Active ISO Burner is the ultimate image recording application for PC. Underneath its simple interface a powerful tool is hiding with which you can easily burn an ISO. The user only needs to choose the image file he or she wants to record, the device that will take care of it and the record speed. As you can see, in no more than three or four clicks you will have completed the ISO recording process. Active ISO Burner supports the following disc formats: CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, CD-RW, DVD-RW and DVD+RW. On top of that, the program can be executed from the command line.

Blaze Music DVD Creator

Blaze Corporation

Quick 3D Cover

Nervepreserve

For sure that you have lots of CDs at home, most of them are burnt CDs and copies which only have their name handwritten on them. What if you could have them with printed images on them or even stored in covers designed by you. Now you can do it easily thanks to Quick 3D Cover. Choose the kind of cover you want to create from the range of more than 50 it offers you and select the images you want to include. It is really easy, in just three simple steps youi will have them created and ready to be printed for you special covers. What are you waiting for downloading it? Download it and enjoy your new cd/dvd collection.

Automatic Autorun Creator

Sicasoft

OpticalInfo

Alex Nolan

OpticalInfo is a small tool that will indicate the specs of each one of the CD/DVD players you have installed on your computer. Surely on more than one occasion you have found yourself with a CD/DVD player that you didn’t know anything about. The problem happens when you want to burn a CD or DVD with info from the hard drive and you don’t know if you can do it. OpticalInfo creates an elaborate list with all the reading and writing capabilities of these devices. Lastly, thanks to OpticalInfo you will be able to retrieve information such as the reading and writing speed as well as the buffer size of the burner.