Why Do So Many People Hate Nero?

[wulf109]

I've used Nero for years,starting with version 4.0. It's been a reliable,stable burning program. Data,VCD,SVCD,and DVD burned with no problems. Why do so many people have problems?

[handiman876]

any program you pay good money for and have as many problems as i did deserves a thumbs down. the main issue for myself was constantly having to dl the full prog for updates. the fact that it was every week, no list of fixes, and the adoption of a new prob really pissed me off. it seems nero was never upgraded for xp. that's my two cents. peace out.

[housepig]

I think some of it is people who rely on it to do more than burn.

I've used it as a burner for years, since version 4, and I still use it as my day to day burner. (Ver. 5.5.10.42)

but I've never tried to use it as an authoring, encoding or converting app, and I wouldn't - I'll use dedicated software for those needs, and let Nero do what it was built to do - burn the finished product.

[Baldrick]

site feedback??....no...it can't be my fault that nero su*#¤#¤# .

[energy80s]

The two big problems with Nero in regards to DVDR is that it produces incompatible discs and it is very bug ridden (just like MS Windows) and the company have to keep releasing updates every few weeks just to get their software to function as required. If this was the same with every other DVD burning tool, then there wouldn't be the same complaints. But it only seems to be Ahead Nero that can't get its act together.

[RabidDog]

And dont forget he burnt rome to the ground..
I use nero5.5 for burrning various CD types.. and it works fine.. However it doesnt fully * support 90/99 min cdr, even now. It beats the inbuilt win/xp writing tool tho..



* multisesion discs in the 700+mb range..

[bottle-necked]

I've never liked Nero myself. These newer versions with all that junk is just too much. I like RecordNow DX and B's Recorder Gold. They are good simple burning program.

[MOVIEGEEK]

God help us not another "why does Nero suck?" topic.
Just use what works for you and be happy.

BTW...RecordNow Max is better.

[Bodene]

The two big problems with Nero in regards to DVDR is that it produces incompatible discs, and the company have to keep releasing updates every few weeks just to get their software to function as required

Just like the others who posted above....I use Nero for all my burning needs and have used it for years for burning CD's and DVD's. I've never, with 4 different versions, on 3 different puters and operating systems (98, 98SE, xp), had an issue with it at all. It's always burned discs properly and never produced a coaster.

As for downloading updates...I agree....it is a pain in the arse to have to download a 20mb file to upgrade. However, if I desire newer applications they bundle in with it, or if a new version makes it compatible with a newer burner I may purchase, then downloading a 20mb file every 6 months is a small price to pay for flawless burning. Personally, I have no need to upgrade every time they come out with a new version. I use 6.0.0.28.

I can't help but wonder if the folks who have all the problems with Nero are dicking around with the settings, or trying to micro-manage every aspect of the burning process to the extent that problems become inevitable. I've always used the settings that Nero defaults to in every area, and have no trouble playing my DVD's in every player I've tried em in (8 different brands).

[garryheather]

Nero works for me, and always has done. I recommend Nero and have had no complaints to date.

[Pop's]

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[rhegedus]

Don't know w.t.f. people are on about - been usinf 5.5.10.28 for a year and it's never let me down on over 500 burns!

[sacajaweeda]

It's problems are with the user not the software.

[freestyler]

nero is the godfather 3 of dvd burning

some folks never use it and talk trash, and others think its the greatest thing...

real question is - does it work for you? do you really care what other folks think?

[MachineMan]

I've never had an issue with Nero Express 5.5.10. I use it for DVD burning and data discs. Came bundled with my year old NEC ND-1300A.

[mob]

its good at burning. but then they add alot of useless junk to it that hogs your system.

if it was just a regualr burning program it would be good, but all those useless programs built into it make it bad.

its installing too much stuff which i dont need.

[DaveS]

I burned a dvd w/ Nero and when I put it into my sony set top recorder, my recorder went into an endless loop and had to be sent back to sony to be fixed and for the disk to be removed!

Now, it shouldn't be possible to put in any dvd into a player and kill it like that (e.g. even w/ a bad or defective disk, ejecting the disk should still be an option), but I do wonder what nero fed it that the sony guys hadn't thought of.

[sacajaweeda]

Funny you should say that, because whenever I burn a DVD with anything other than Nero, every set top player I put those discs into the whole player just explodes like a fragmentation grenade.

[Moloko_Plus]

I like nero, the only problem I had was with that overburn bug a few months back, but that was it.

Any difference in nero 5 and 6? Personally i use 6, and update the thing once a month or so.

[DaveS]

Funny you should say that, because whenever I burn a DVD with anything other than Nero, every set top player I put those discs into the whole player just explodes like a fragmentation grenade.

I was serious - what I said in my post actually happened.

[offline]

...he fiddled while Rome burned..

but he did not burn it..

...also his toga was too short

[indolikaa]

I like Nero.

[bugster]

I burned a dvd w/ Nero and when I put it into my sony set top recorder, my recorder went into an endless loop and had to be sent back to sony to be fixed and for the disk to be removed!

Now, it shouldn't be possible to put in any dvd into a player and kill it like that (e.g. even w/ a bad or defective disk, ejecting the disk should still be an option), but I do wonder what nero fed it that the sony guys hadn't thought of.

IMHO, thats the SONY players fault, not Nero's

[marvel2020]

Because I/we just do.

[sigpop]

seems like a great package for simple burning of cds/dvds. but their dvd authoring interface is a pain.

[mingus]

I've been using Nero for awhile and it's always worked well for me, but recently I bought a DVD burner and got NeroVision Express. For some reason, no matter what brand of media I use, NeroVision says "You cannot write to this type of disk". But, when I try to burn it with regular Nero it works fine. Anyone have any idea why this would be? I have a LITEON burner.

[DaveS]

I burned a dvd w/ Nero and when I put it into my sony set top recorder, my recorder went into an endless loop and had to be sent back to sony to be fixed and for the disk to be removed!

Now, it shouldn't be possible to put in any dvd into a player and kill it like that (e.g. even w/ a bad or defective disk, ejecting the disk should still be an option), but I do wonder what nero fed it that the sony guys hadn't thought of.

IMHO, thats the SONY players fault, not Nero's

I agree w/ you... I tried to get out of them what it was that the player didn't like, but they wouldn't say. Nor does it seem to be user-recoverable, which taken w/ the error is a bad combination (the little eject hole for the burner is coverd by part of the faceplate).

It scared me a bit - what if I create a disk for someone any their sony player has the same problem? I think it would be less of a chance of happening in a regular player since the settop is a burner & some firmware which is most likely different that the firmware in a regular player, but that's all supposition.

In any case, I think you're right and it's too bad I can't get any more info on what the prob. is. The only thing I think it may be is that I created the disk using a disk at once session (read & burn simultaneously) and bet that if I ripped my dvd & then burned it might not happen, but I'll never know b/c I can't risk locking up the set top again.

anyway, sorry for such a long reply but hopefully this helps someone else.

[andkiich]

Because Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Dag-gone him!

[Coopervid]

I actually like Nero and liked it especially very much for CD burning. However, I have a picky Daewoo 5800 player that refused to load DVDs burnt with Nero or sometimes I had to open- close the tray for several times until the discs were accepted. Now I do an image with ImgTools and burn with DVDDecrypter. Every disc loads just fine now.

See also here what the author of ImgTools discussed with Ahead. Might be fixed now in the latest versions. But I stick with my method. Never change a winning team!

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=75604

[Vejita-sama]

I've been burning CDs and DVDs for a while. Back in the day Nero had problems burning SVCDs, didn't including the correct files (had to add them manually). They fixed that but had another problem with the scandata(IIRC) file so you couldn't FF/rew on all players, fixed that but the time stamp was wrong, etc. etc. For DVDs UDF 1.05 (WTF?) with NO way to set it depending on the verison you have.

And that's the problem, the shear number of verisons. They keep releasing new verisons because there are just so many bugs. For freeware that's fine (expected even). But for CDs CDRDAO is rock solid stable and doesn't have these problems. If I pay for a product I expect it 'work', I don't think that's asking to much

With that said LOTS of people use nothing but nero and have no problems, great to each his own. But I personally can not recommend nero (and don't).