CD and DVD Burning Software
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Although CD and/or DVD copying applications allow you make copies of your data, they generally include a licensing agreement that prohibits you from transmitting, distributing or procuring software or other information for which you are not the legal copyright owner. It is important that you abide by the terms of the licensing agreement set forth in any copying package you choose. Note that in no way do we endorse the illegal distribution of data in any form for which you are not the legitimate copyright owner.
Popular CD and DVD Software

The following list identifies the most commonly downloaded CD and DVD copying packages1 on the market. This provides a loose representation of the latest consumer trends, identifying what software people are interested in trying or buying:
Nero 6 Ultra Edition is an all-in-one solution for data, audio, video, photo, and backup. Nero has combined its best applications (over 16 applications included in the Suite) to satisfy all your digital-media needs, making the applications accessible through Nero StartSmart, the command center for all tasks. Now you can capture, edit, author, and burn your photos and home videos without buying different software packages. Nero Recode 2, ultra fast transcoder, allows you to recode DVDs and videos to Nero Digital format providing top-quality audio and video for your home theater.
 
You can backup non-copyrighted DVDs without any visible loss of quality by converting DVDs to Nero Digital files, and fit an entire movie on one CD, including 5.1 Dolby surround sound. You can then playback your media files with Nero ShowTime or share with Nero MediaHome server with H.264/AVC support, the new standard in high definition support.
Alcohol 120% can handle the creation of 31 virtual CD and DVD-ROMs, allowing the user to play discs without needing the physical disc. Users can copy CDs and DVDs to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, and DVD+RW discs. The reading speed of a virtual CD-ROM is 200x. It supports normal CD, DVD, and CD RAW subchannel reading methods. The RAW reading method enables users to emulate all CDs. Alcohol 120% supports numerous CD (CD-DA, CD+G, CD-ROM, CD-XA, VideoCD, Photo CD) and DVD (DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio) formats and all current (ATAPI & SCSI) drives. The latest version adds two more profiles to the data type options and includes support for unusually formatted DVD+RW discs formatted by other software.
Acoustica MP3 CD Burner is intuitive music-burning software. Not only will it burn your music in the order you want, it also will let you edit each song to get rid of silence or extra-long applause, or fade in to or out of incomplete songs. Boost or EQ each song individually so you don?t have to constantly adjusts the volume. Burn all major types of audio files, including MP3, OGG, WMA, and WAV. Rip your CDs to make your own MP3, OGG, WMA, or WAV files. Squeeze 200 songs on a CD or 1,000 on a DVD.
 
In version 4.01 new IMAPI audio burning engine allows burning for those on XP that are not supported via Goldenhawk. This version fixes EQ glitch, WMA tagging, library corruption issue.
Sonic RecordNow is a state-of-the-art CD- and DVD-mastering tool that takes the guesswork and complexity out of CD and DVD burning. With an all-new task-based user interface designed by usability professionals, it's never been easier to get the most out of your CD or DVD burner. RecordNow includes all the features needed for creating music CDs, data CDs and DVDs, exact copies, disc images, and bootable discs, and it can all be done with a few clicks of the mouse.
This media converter, editor, recorder, burner, ripper, and player has features such as audio, video, data-CD, and DVD burning; video editing; video creation, combining, and extracting; batch-video processing; video capture; audio merging; and lyrics searching. Conversions include CD to WAV, MP3, WMA, and OGG; WAV, WMA, and OGG to MP3; MP3, WAV, and OGG to WMA; MP3, WMA, and WAV to OGG; MP3, WMA, and OGG to WAV; WAV, MP3, WMA, and OGG to CD; WAV and MP3 compression; and two-way video conversion among MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, etc. MPEG conversion options are available for VCD-, SVCD-, and DVD-compliant output. Video editing is available for AVI (uncompressed), AVI (compressed using any available codec), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, and ASF files.
 
Version 6.1 includes various internal enhancements and improvements as well as additional format variation support.