Astroburn is the best choice for those who want to have quick and easy-to-use home program with essential features to perform disc burning.

A. Insert a disc into your drive;
B. Select data or an image file;
C. Start burn.

You can also personalize your Astroburn Lite — just select a skin for program interface you like the most.

Burning CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays was never that simple!

Key features:
 · Burn CD/DVD/Blu-ray media.
 · Burn image files.
 · Burn custom files.
 · Select a burning speed.
 · Verify a burning process.
 · Erase discs quickly.
 · Select a language for program interface.

Runs on Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista and Windows 7.

Download: Astroburn Lite 1.2.0

Free Disc Burner writes any files, folders (data) to any disk. Writes multi session disks (there is a possibility to write up files to the same disk), lets erase information from a disk, supports Blu-Ray.

Supported Media Types: BD-R / BD-RE (Blu-Ray), DVD-R Double Layer, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+R / DVD+RW, DVD-R / DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, CD-R / CD-RW.

Device Features:

- supports buffer protection technologies (BurnProof, JustLink, etc.);
- advanced speed detection;
- advanced file system detection anywhere on the disc;
- automatic selection of write modes;
- erase functionality.

Data Features:

- writes multi-session or disc-at-once to ALL supported media formats including Blu-Ray (BD-R and BD-RE);
- creates disc images on-the fly (no staging to hard drive is required);
- easy file/folder manipulation;
- imports existing data from any supported file system or from any session and appends or edits;
- supports UNICODE file and folder names for multi-byte.

Supports Windows XP and Vista.

Download: Free Disc Burner 2.2.3.57

FairStars CD Ripper is a free powerful software for ripping audio CD tracks to WMA, MP3, OGG, VQF, FLAC, APE and WAV formats files on-the-fly. Free CDDB is supported (Querying & Submiting). It supports normalization when ripping, and also support ID3 tag. FairStars CD Ripper also supports playback with its built-in player.

Main features
– Rips CD to WMA, MP3, OGG, VQF, FLAC, APE and WAV on-the-fly.
– Supports automatic volume adjustment (normalization) during ripping.
– Supports multiple CD/DVD drivers.
– ID3 tag support.
– Support automatic saving ID3 Tags when converting, and also support ID3 tags display and edit.
– Query and submit CD disc information from/to the freedb (the Internet Compact Disc Database).
– Audio Playback control function Support.
– Easy-to-use user-friendly interface (skin support).

Requirements:
. Windows 2000/XP/XP MCE/2003/Vista/2008/7.
. Full-duplex sound card.
. CD/DVD drivers.

Download: FairStars CD Ripper 1.31

WildFire CD Ripper is pulling out the data (music) directly in digital format from an Audio CD; this kind of software is in general known as a CD Ripper or a CDDA utility. The resultant audio file can be a pure WAV file (useful for making compilation audio CDs) or the ripped audio data can be compressed using an audio encoder.

Here are few supported encoders:
- Lame MP3 encoder
- Internal MP2 encoder
- APE lossles audio format
- Ogg Vorbis encoder
- The Windows MP3 encoder (Fraunhofer MP3 encoder)
- NTT VQF encoder
- FAAC encoder
- Windows WMA8 encoder

Additionally, WAV files on the hard drive can be converted to a Compressed Audio File (and vice versa). WildFire CD Ripper also supports numerous audio file tag formats like the ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags, which can be automatically inserted as part of the ripping procedure.

System Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7.

Download: WildFire CD Ripper 3.6.0.0 (Adware)

DVDFab HD Decrypter is a simple version of DVDFab Platinum. It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying. It also comes with full HD-DVD and Blu-Ray support (Removes AACS).

Download: DVDFab HD Decrypter 6.2.1.8

Download: DVDFab HD Decrypter 7.0.1.2 Beta

CdCoverCreator is a powerful tool to create your own CD covers for both Audio and Data CDs. Use CdCoverCreator to create your covers, inlays, labels, and even booklets.

Operating System: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7.

Download: CdCoverCreator 2.5.3

Hiren’s BootCD is a wonderful live CD containing various programs such as Hard drive recovery, Hard Drive Partition, Hard Drive Backup, Hard Drive Testing, RAM (Memory) Testing, System Information, MBR (Master BootRecord), BIOS, MultiMedia, Password, NTFS (FileSystems), Antivirus, AntiSpy, Process, Windows Startup, Registry tools, Windows Cleaners, Optimizers, Tweakers, and many others…

As it is a bootable CD, it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted. We may call it as an emergency cd which every computer technician or home user must have.

Download: Hiren’s Boot CD 10.2

Video DVD Maker is a freeware authoring tool that allows home movie enthusiasts to create DVD disks in three clicks. You can capture video from TV tuners, web cameras, DVs and import most video formats, and burn an output onto a CD/DVD disk.

Video DVD Maker FREE Features at a Glance:

· Capture video from any video device (DV camera, web camera, TV tuner, etc.)
· Import from any video file (AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV, etc.)
· Burn to any type of media (CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL, etc.)
· Intuitive user interface;
· Freeware.

Video DVD Maker Free version can be used for personal purposes only. No business use is allowed for this version.

Download: Video DVD Maker Free 3.26.0.67

Explore&Burn – a free lightweight CD and DVD burner

Explore&Burn is a free CD/DVD burning application with intuitive and easy to use interface, integrated with Windows Explorer. It is the easiest and fastest way to burn files and ISO images on your computer to CD or DVD. Explore&Burn is extremely lightweight comparing to other bloated burning applications today on the software market and does just what you need.

Burn and Update Data Discs
Burn any files to new CDs and DVDs or update discs burned earlier by adding new files and folders.

Burn Disc Images
Burn ISO images from your hard disk to physical media quickly and easily.

Supports Wide Variety of Disc Types
Burn on CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM discs including Dual Layer discs.

Supports All Major Disc File Systems
Burn single-session and multi-session discs with ISO-9660, Joliet and UDF file systems.

Multilingual user interface
The application is localized in Chinese(Simplified), Chinese(Traditional), English, French, Dutch, German, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian languages.

100% Clean and Free
Does not contain Adware or Spyware and is Absolutely Free for home and commercial use.

Explore&Burn works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003/2008, 32-bit and 64-bit editions.

Download: Explore&Burn 1.5.3

FinalBurner is a freeware alternative to expensive CD and DVD recorders. It allows users to produce professional data, audio, video disks and ISO images. Many types of media are supported, including CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL.

Main features:

· Burn Data CD/DVD
· Burn Audio CD
· Burn Video DVD
· Burn ISO images

It does not contain any spyware.

Download: FinalBurner 2.18.0.181

Accord CD Ripper Free is a free audio CD extracting software, with it you can easily extract audio CD tracks to various audio formats.

Key Features

· The best of all, it’s a FREE cd ripper.
· Rip audio CD tracks to WAV, MP3.
· Incredibly high ripping speed.
· Fully optimized for SSE/Hyper thread technology and get extra speed boost on multiprocessor systems.
· Retrieve album info from remote and local CDDB (Compact Disc Database) servers.
· CDDB info can be edited/revised/saved.
· On-the-fly ripping, no temporary file generated.
· An elegant and intuitive user interface, very easy to use.
· Automatically write metadata of the output audio files.
· Build-in latest Lame MP3 encoder which is generally believed as the the best MP3 encoder in the world.
· Plain audio CD Player.
· All kinds of CD and DVD drives are supported (including IDE, SCSI, USB etc.).
· Multiple disc media supported, including CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW ,DVD+RW.
· Multisession (CD-Extra) supported.
· All events are logged for future diagnosis.
· ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) supported.
· Windows Vista compatible and works with Windows 7.

Download: Accord CD Ripper Free 6.2.5

DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for creation professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played on any DVD player, but also creation of own-designed DVD menus. It is Open Source Software and is completely free.

Features

· creation and burning DVD video with interactive menus
· support of AVI, MPEG and other file formats
· support of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, AC-3 and other audio and video formats
· using MPEG and VOB files without reencoding
· allows put files with different audio/video format on one DVD (support of titleset)
· user-friendly interface with support of drag & drop
· flexible menu creation on the basis of scalable vector graphic
· import of image file for background
· placing of buttons, text, images and other graphic objects anywhere on the menu screen
· changing the font/color and other parameters of buttons and graphic object
· scaling of buttons and graphic objects
· coping of any menu object or whole menu
· dvd scripting

Runs on Windows and Linux.

Download: DVDStyler 1.8.0.1

BurnAware Free is a free CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc burning software. It is ideal for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, MP3 music, DVD-Video discs and burning disc images. Free, easy to set up, it enables you to save your files to disc quickly and provides clean, flexible interface to help you complete your burning tasks much faster.

Key Features
· Create data, bootable and multisession CD/DVD/Blu-ray Discs
· Create Audio CDs and MP3 CD/DVD/Blu-ray Discs
· Create DVD-Video
· Record boot disc images
· Create and record disc images
· Supports all current hardware interfaces (IDE/SCSI/USB/1394/SATA)
· Supports UDF/ISO9660/Joliet Bridged file systems (any combination)
· On-the-fly writing for all image types (no staging to hard drive first)
· Auto-verification of written files
· Supports CD-Text and unicode characters
· Supports Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 (32 and 64 Bit), no drivers required
· 100% Free for personal, home use

BurnAware Free does NOT contain any spyware, adware, banners etc.

Download: BurnAware Free 2.4.4

Download: BurnAware Free 3.0 Beta 5

PowerEnc is an easy to use and fast CD ripper and encoder which will allow you to easily and fastly switch between different audio formats.

Download: PowerEnc 2.4a

Extract audio from CDs in perfect digital quality

Express Rip is a CD ripping program for Windows that lets you extract digital audio tracks directly from audio CDs to mp3 or wav audio files.

 · Perfect quality CD digital audio extraction
 · Fastest CD Ripper available
 · Extract audio from CDs to wav or mp3

By using direct digital extraction, pure audio quality is maintained when you convert CD audio to mp3 or wav. Express Rip is also the fastest CD ripper in the world using proprietary optimizing systems.

System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 and Windows 7

Download: Express Rip 1.70

Alcohol brings a new meaning to the word multimedia! It is without a doubt a leader in it’s class, bringing the ability to emulate and record CDs and DVDs together into one amazingly easy to use software program.

Using the latest technology the program is constantly being developed and improved to add new features, allowing it to maintain it’s position as a leading software package.

Imagine being able to store your most used CDs as images on your computer and just call them up at the click of a button! And then run them at 200x the speed of some CD drives and without requiring the CD itself! How about being able to make a backup of that CD onto another CD either using the CD itself or just using the image you have created? This is what Alcohol allows you to do and much more.

This version of Alcohol 52% is for private, non-commercial, single home computer use only.

Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista

Download: Alcohol 52% Free Edition 2.0.0.1331

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. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

Main features

• burn all kinds of discs
• audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks
• burn and create ISO files
• data verification after burning process
• create bootable discs
• multi-language interface
• bin/nrg → ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!
• Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista/Windows 7

Download: CDBurnerXP 4.2.7.1893

Download: CDBurnerXP 4.3.1.1500 Beta

WinX Free DVD to iPhone Ripper – 100% Free for iPhone, iPod + touch, Apple TV

WinX Free DVD to iPhone Ripper, completely different with other so-called free DVD to iPhone Ripper, is a totally unique free version, could perfect rip and convert DVD movies to iPod, iPhone, apple TV video formats. It is the first DVD ripper which could read DVD sector-by-sector meanwhile supporting commercial DVD, protected DVD, encrypted DVD. Within 1 minute to download and a few clicks to install, enjoy whatever great video or audio files at anytime and anywhere.

The first switch from commercial software to free software DVD ripper.

The first DVD ripper based on DVD disc sector I/O technology, 100% stable.

No watermark, time and other limitations.

The newest and best free DVD to iPod, iPhone, Apple TV Ripper.

100% Clean, No Spyware, No Malware, No Adware and No Virus.

Without any functions or features reserved.

Support ripping in single and batch mode.

Support all kinds of DVD include CSS protected DVD, region 1-6, Sony ArccOS, encrypted DVD, commercial DVD.

Platforms: Microsoft Windows 98, NT, 2000,2003, XP, Vista, Windows 7

Download: WinX Free DVD to iPhone Ripper 3.2.5

WinX DVD Ripper – 100% free dvd ripping software

WinX DVD Ripper is a free software program that facilitates ripping the content of a DVD to computer hard disk drive and converting to popular video formats. It offers powerful yet easy to use functions, excellent video/audio quality, fast ripping speed, small size makes it fast to launch. This Free DVD Ripper includes additional features, such as the ability to decrypt DVDs, remove copy preventions, making disks unrestricted and region-free. It is absolutely a great free DVD ripping solution. Free Download right now!

As a professional DVD ripping program, WinX DVD Ripper owns an easy and friendly interface which may help you a lot when you start ripping process. To rip DVD to popular video formats at users’ will, this free DVD ripping software allows users to control all the video/audio parameters to adjust output video/audio quality, image size and set aspect ratio, video resolution, video frame rate and also video splitting. It is definitely a good choice for ripping DVD.

Supported DVD
Normal DVD, CSS protected DVD, region 1-6, Sony ArccOS, Commercial DVD

Output video formats
AVI, MPEG, FLV, MOV, MP4, WMV, MP3

Platforms
Microsoft Windows 98, NT, 2000,2003, XP, Vista, Windows 7

Download: WinX DVD Ripper 4.4.5

DVDAuthorGUI is a basic win32 frontend for the DVDAuthor project. The guiGUI is meant to be an easy means to create a basic DVD.

Projects used by DVDAuthorGUI are:
- dvdauthor, spumux (dvdauthor-0.6.14)
- mplex, jpeg2yuv, mpeg2enc, png2yuv (mjpegtools 1.6.2)
- gm (GraphicsMagick 1.0.4)
- mkisofs (mkisofs 2.01a20-cdrtools)

Features of DVDAuthorGUI include:
· multiple titles (pgc)
· multiple titleset menus (still and motion)
· m2v still creation
· chapters
· subtitles
· multiple audio streams
· basic navigation commands
· iso creation

Download: DVDAuthorGUI 1.021

In the great tradition of Ashampoo software, this CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning application makes it really easy to create & copy your own data, video, audio and multisession CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

Many current CD/DVD burning programs are universal “everything including the kitchen sink” applications that are overloaded with countless confusing functions. Ashampoo Burning Studio 5 makes life easier by concentrating on what you really want to do!

- Create MP3 CDs/DVDs/Blu-ray discs
- Burn Movies as Video DVD, Video CD (VCD) or Super Video CD (S-VCD)
- Create and burn CD/DVD/Blu-ray Images
- Load and save project files
- Erase CD-RWs / DVD+RWs / DVD-RWs / BD-REs
- Drag&Drop functions for adding files directly from the Windows Explorer
- Supports file names with up to 127 characters for DVDs and Blu-ray and 64 characters for CDs
- Burn speed and other options can all be set automatically
- Burns WAV, MP3, FLAC, WMA and Ogg Vorbis files directly to Audio CDs without any plugins
- Create copies from audio, video or data discs easily
- Interactive troubleshooting assistant that helps to solve hardware and media problems
- Integrated support for over 1,700 CD, DVD and Blu-ray burners
- … and much more!

Ashampoo Burning Studio 5 also helps you to save money on CD/DVD/Blu-ray blanks. Since it produces “multisession” discs you can always add more files later provided that the disc isn’t completely full. This feature makes Ashampoo Burning Studio 5 ideal for everyone who needs to make occasional backups of important data!

More than 1,700 CD, DVD and Blu-ray writers are supported.

Ashampoo Burning Studio runs under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7.

Download: Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 Free 6.77

Download: Ashampoo Burning Studio 2010 9.10 Free