According to the results of the Poll
Recommended Apps - CD Creation Software, Ahead
NERO was the choice with 55% of the vote. It was followed by Roxio Easy CD Creator which received 39% of the total responses.
Nero v5.5 is the latest release from Ahead Software AG. Some of Nero's features include:
- Bootable-CD
- from floppy disk
- from hard drive partition
- Audio-CD
- Track-at-Once and Disc-at-Once
- extraction of multiple audio tracks
- speed setting of digital audio extraction
- playing tracks digital and analog
- format conversion "on-the-fly"
- variable pause-length, ISRC
- filters for de-click and de-hiss
- additional filters: wide-stereo and normalize
- compile audio cds by drag&drop from cd-rom drives
- supporting of MP3 and WMA (MS Audio) as source for audio tracks
- CD-Copy
- Track-at-Once and Disc-at-Once
- Image-copy for most reliable copy
- "on-the-fly"-copy for fast and easy copy
- complex read-error handling
- Images
- Track-at-Once and Disc-at-Once
- importing ISO 9660, HFS-images and others
- writing third party images, also from other platforms
- Burn options
- Track-at-Once and Disc-at-Once
- performance test
- multiple copies
- automated process of performance testing followed by
- automatic selection of maximum speed, simulation and burning
- dynamically disables auto-insert-notification
- 80 min CD-Rs
- overburning
- Multi-functional user interface
- Explorer like
- drag & drop within Nero and from File Manager/Explorer
- built-in file browser
A complete list of features may be found here. Although Nero supports a large variety of burners, it's best to check out the information on the Supported Recorders page before downloading.
NERO can be run on any Microsoft Windows® platform, including XP. It requires a 486/33 or higher processor, 8 MB RAM minimum and a WinASPI driver layer. NERO can be purchased for $69.00 U.S., however, if you download the trial version, then the cost for a serial number is only $49.00
Information on the other applications either included within this poll or mentioned within the thread can be found at the links below:
