Windows CD Burning Software - Which do you recommend?

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I've done a search, but I can't seem to find any strong recommendations for CD-R burning software.

Currently I'm using Easy CD Creator and it think it sucks. It always leaves a slight pause between tracks even in Disk-at-once mode. I need seamless transitions between my tracks. Easy CD Creator also interferes with other applications, tending to "own" my CD-ROM and CD-R drives.

I'd also like to copy CD's, so I'm not sure a wave editor based application is right for me.

Which software do you recommend? Nero?

Thanks,
barefoot
 
Anyone? I'd like to get something soon. I guess I'm leaning toward Nero.

barefoot
 
Try Wavelab. Allows you to adjust time between tracks. Also supports audio extraction from CD, and includes an .mp3 encoder.

Plus you get a great wave editor in the process.
 
I guess I'm leaning toward Nero.

I have been using nero for quite a while now, and I use it a lot! I've gone through Sony's hotburn and Easy CD Creator, and nero in my opinion is the best of them all. You can download a 30 day full working demo copy from downoad.com and try it out. It is very customizable, and yet has wizards to simplify the cd creation process for common tasks. You can adjust the pause between tracks, and the new version even comes with a cd cover deisgner and wave file editor!

I've also had the lowest amount of bad cd's come out of nero due to buffer overruns, etc... compared to the other two software packages.
 
I use Nero. I've used it to burn some mixes which require that no gaps be inserted b/t the tracks. I had to remove the gaps myself by setting the space b/t tracks to zero but at least the software allows you to do so. One quick note, for some reason, Nero required at least a two-second gap after the first track, but it was okay w/no gaps b/t the rest. I simply added a short silent track as the first track w/the two-second gap and left the remaining tracks as is. In the end, my track one is just silence and tracks 2-69 are a seamless mix.
 
I use EZCD5 at work and Nero at home. EZCD is OK for basic stuff as long as you know that it overwrites some windows system files - do a seacrh, I've posted all the info before.

I use Nero at home, it seems fine. I would recomend it.

I have also sed Plextor's bit-copy program to try to copy game CDs, but it seems fairly useless.
 
Go Nero.
It is much more stable than anything else I tried.
Wavelab as a burner is OK, except that it only supports the drives with "disk at once" feature. If yours is an older drive, than Wavelab is useless.
Whatever you choose don't burn at high speed. In fact burn at the lowest speed you can reasonable afford. This way you will forget about spoiling disks due to "buffer underrun" errors.
 
Thanks!

I downloaded the Nero demo and it does work very well. The only minor thing I don't like is that you can't easily rearrange tracks in the list. Instead of just dragging and dropping them where you want, you have to cut and paste.

barefoot
 
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