This GAOTD is a very powerful CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc burning software, especially suitable laptops and notebooks.

And it sports an impressive array of options which cannot be found easily in many other FREE and PAID ALTERNATIVES out there(so it's not true, as somebody instead said above, that it can be replaced by tons of FREEWARE)

For example it can:

- compile and burn bootable discs and disc images (great option for burning ISO FILES containing your OS, for instance)
- extract tracks from Audio CDs
- extract data even from unreadable and/or multisession discs

So THUMBS UP from me!

If you don't need these advanced functions and/or are not eager to pay a little fee for future updates, then you can use FREEWARE ALTERNATIVES.


BEST FREE CD/DVD BURNING SOFTWARE

* ImgBurn (==> Softpedia Editor Pick and my Personal First Choice)
http://www.imgburn.com/

* Ashampoo Burning Studio Advanced FREE 2012 10.0.15 (==> Softpedia Editor Pick)
http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Data-CD-DVD-Burning/Ashampoo-Burning-Studio-Free.shtml

* (Portable) CDBurnerXP (==> Softpedia Editor Pick)
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/en/features

* (Portable) cdrtfe 1.4.1
http://cdrtfe.sourceforge.net/cdrtfe/index_en.html

* (Portable) InfraRecorder
http://infrarecorder.org/

* StarBurn
http://www.starburnsoftware.com/products/starburn/features


To extract any audio tracks from your CDs and then convert them to MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC etc....:

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de
http://www.fairstars.com/cdripper
http://www.goodkatshare.com/kat-cd-ripper.html
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Audio-CD-Rippers-Encoders/CDex.shtml

And finally, if you want to extract data from an unreadable disk but don't know how to do it, relax...Giovanni is here to help you:

http://code.google.com/p/copycat
http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/CD-DVD-Rip-Other-Tools/Recovery-Star.shtml

Enjoy!!

Giovanni  –  11 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+217)

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You don't need me to tell you that there are many other free and paid programs for burning CD's and DVD's. In fact this publisher offers a free option. Look at this link for a comparison of their products...

http://www.burnaware.com/products.html

I hope this gets a good response here. I have tried their free version and it works quite well. I will install this and greatly appreciate the offer. I am afraid that the competition just may be too great for this to stand out. Thank you GOTD team and to BurnAware Technologies.

dadams  –  11 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+120)

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Before you use CDBurnerXP, read your end user agreement:
(at the bottom...)

B. OpenCandy End User License Agreement

This installer uses the OpenCandy network to recommend other software you may find valuable during the installation of this software. OpenCandy collects *NON-personally identifiable* information about this installation and the recommendation process. Collection of this information ONLY occurs during this installation and the recommendation process; in accordance with OpenCandy's Privacy Policy, available at www.opencandy.com/privacy-policy

GeeDeePee  –  11 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+87)

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The file "readme.txt" mentions an "activate,exe" program, but this program is not found in the package !!!

raduf  –  11 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+13)

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Dear users,

there is no need in activation for this title. Setup.exe will install registered version.

Sorry for the mistake in the readme.txt file attached. The archive is updated.

--
Thank you,
GOTD team

<b>Dear users, there is no need in activation for this title. Setup.exe will install registered version. Sorry for the mistake in the readme.txt file attached. The archive is updated. -- Thank you, GOTD team</b>
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Giveaway of the Day project team  –  11 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+68)

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I've been using their free product for quite some time and it has never failed me, unlike some other burners out there that seem to go on the blitz every so often. The only thing I wish this company would do is create one of those check lists that quickly show the features in each of their products. The free version does so much so well, that this almost seems redundant for my needs, but I'm installing anyway because I like the free version so much.

I know there are a lot of free burners out there, I have a few, but this is the one I use all the time. It is stable, fast, and very dependable. I can't think of one time when this program locked up or failed a burn, whereas I can think of quite a few times with the other freebies mentioned earlier in the comments.

I highly recommend this program, regardless of field "saturation".

Melika  –  11 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+60)

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