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BurnAware Freeware 2.1.5

Freeware

Designed to burn your data and audio discs, as quickly as possible. It will support just about every burning media from a single 700MB CD through to a Blu-ray writable disc. Assuming you have a Blu-ray burner. Enables you to take data, audio and video content and produce either a CD or DVD.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

CDBurnerXP 4.2.2.1012

Freeware

If you want to burn your discs, quickly, using the latest media suites can take a time to get to the correct application. This free burning tool is designed to get the job done as quickly as possible with the minimum of fuss. Burn any kind of disc, from CD through to Blu-ray.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

Floola 4

Freeware

Standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation that supports all commonly used iPod features including artwork, podcasts and smart playlists. It's also able to convert audio or video incompatible with the iPod so that you can copy almost any file to it.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

ImgBurn 2.42

Freeware

Designed to manage and create ISO distribution images. If you have an ISO you want to burn to CD/DVD, simply select the ISO image and burn. If you want to create your own ISO image, simply select the files you want to add to your image and save the contents to your hard drive.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

Ashampoo Burning Studio 8

Freeware

Strips out all the non-essential extras, so that only the pure disc authoring tools are left, letting you create data, music or even some video CDs with the minimum of hassle. Don't assume this approach means the program is lacking in features, though.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

FinalBurner 2.6

Freeware

Alternative to expensive CD and DVD burners. This 4-Mb application enables you to create data, audio, DVD disks and burn them onto any type of media, such as CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL. You can also create an ISO image of a disk. Restricts the complex process of CD recording to a few mouse clicks

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista