Whats a good cd/dvd burnig software to be used mainly if not only fot data?

[Denvers Dawgs]

I'm looking for a good free burning software that will 99% of the time only be used for burning data discs (no dvd or video files)

[gadgetguy]

imgburn

[redwudz]

ImgBurn can do DVD or CD data discs. Use the 'Build' mode.

[guns1inger]

I use Imgburn for everything except audio CDs, for which I use Prassi ONES.

[Denvers Dawgs]

thanks guys.....

[balli]

@ guns1inger,

why do you prefer Prassi ONES for audio CD?

[hech54]

I use Prassi Ones exclusively for audio CD's too. (It is a shitty ripper though)
It recognizes and utilizes the entire capacity of my 800MB/90 minute recordables(with my LG drives - and none of that overburning nonsense) AND it writes CD text to the disc that can be later read in programs like ISOBuster...in case I want a quick list of what is on the disc.

[guns1inger]

And because Imgburn doesn't do Redbook audio. It can burn audio files as data, but not as a Redbook compliant audio CD.

[GKar]

You can try Exact Audio Copy ( EAC ) for the audio portion. EAC rips well and burns and is free, though I haven't tried the burn portion, I just ripped for use in my portable player.

[nbarzgar]

This thread is a bit old now, but it deals with my question to a tee:
I love Prassi ONES and use it exclusively for practically any burning I have to do, mainly data these days. The burning engine is extremely reliable and even using the PC for additional tasks never produces any coasters!

BUT I also have a question: Probably you have noticed that Prassi always shows the capacity of a 4,7 GB DVD blank disc as being 4,38 GB? Prassi's not developed further so is that the problem? (have got v. 2.1.358, it includes the update)

Can I do/install anything to solve this problem?

Thanks.

[AlanHK]

BUT I also have a question: Probably you have noticed that Prassi always shows the capacity of a 4,7 GB DVD blank disc as being 4,38 GB?

It's using the binary gigabyte (2^30), as opposed to the decimal one (10^9).
It's the same actual number of bytes.


4.38 * 2^30 = 4.38 * 1,073,741,824 = 4,702,989,189 = 4.7 * 10^9

See notes on https://www.videohelp.com/dvd#dvdsizes

[redwudz]

Prassi is correct. A DVD-5 disc holds about 4.37GB. From 'WHAT IS' DVD to the upper left on this page

* In the computer world is 1 KB data = 1024 bytes so 4 700 000 000 bytes / 1024 = 4 589 843KB / 1024 = 4482MB / 1024 = 4.37GB. See section 3.3 in the DVDDemystified FAQ here.