- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT
- Date added: March 11, 2008
- Total Downloads: 1,004,562
- Downloads last week: 19,649
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A newer version of BurnAware Free Edition is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 121 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Without a doubt, BurnAware Free is one of the best freeware burning apps around. It has all the basic features you need for burning, and can easily handle ripping data discs, audio CDs, DVDs, and ISO discs. Beyond that, though, it's a bit light on features.
The main interface is based on the Windows XP Control Panel layout, so it should be instantly recognizable. Under each heading is a link to the control panel for that choice. We were disappointed that drag-and-drop was not available, but the internal system for adding files was not clunky. Audio files get automatically converted from MP3, WMA, or WAV as they're burned to disc. There's also a Tools section, which has two erase modes for rewritables, and a Hardware Info subsection that gives a huge amount of detail on both your hardware's burning abilities and the type of disc in the drive.
Neither pretty nor ugly, BurnAware handles all the major, basic functions you could want a burning app to control, and the price of absolutely zero is absolutely impossible to argue against. Give it a shot.
Publisher's description
From Burnaware Technologies :BurnAware allows you to easily perform the most common disc burning operations: write to all CD/DVD media types, including Blu-Ray (BD-R/BD-RE); create and burn disc images; write multi-session discs; verify the integrity of files; burn your compilations directly on optical media, without having to wait for hard drive staging first and much more. Its proprietary burning algorithm provides the highest level or fault-tolerance, error-free burning and data integrity. BurnAware Free Edition has a modern interface and supports Windows NT/2000/XP and Vista (32 and 64 bit). The application is free and contains absolutely no adware or annoying banners.
Version 1.2.9 automatically switches to UDF mode while using Blu-ray discs.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.2.9 automatically switches to UDF mode while using Blu-ray discs.
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User reviews of BurnAware Free Edition 1.2.9
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 121 votes
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: BurnAware Free Edition 1.2.9
"terrible itll waste your blank disks"
Pros: free it works once in 10 tries
Cons: it works 10% of the time, otherwise it gives failed to burn errors and leaves your bin full of wwasted dvd-r disks. terrible software. roxio or avs were good, nero i hate, ashampoo wastes didks too...i need free good burning software help!!
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Version: BurnAware Free Edition 1.2.9
Pros: I like it! Works great on my Vista computer with no problems. I'd recommend it.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: BurnAware Free Edition 1.2.9
"excellent product ,definitely better than nero"
Pros: i use the paid product nero.i wanted to burn linux os iso. so in nero smart essentials i clicked burn image to disc and followed instrutions-result ,nero burned back another iso image as image.nrg on my hard disk!!! so i was desperate for an iso burner. donno whether vista has a built-in iso burner. fortunately got burn aware on download.com. this product did the task immediately.
-the UI is very friendly. there is one click to burn iso image to disc. immediately lets us choose and starts the burning process. the UI is also good-looking
-most importantly its very fast than paid products about 3x fast i'd say, and we can work on other programs while this product does its job quitely,unlike other paid products which tend to freeze the system.
Cons: none
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: BurnAware Free Edition 1.2.9
"Great. Fast, Easy, and Free."
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: BurnAware Free Edition 1.2.9
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