CD and DVD burning is something I find I don’t do as much anymore. With good reason. Most music I listen to is either done on my PC or on my portable music device. Most video I watch is either DVD’s or through websites like Hulu or Netflix. Since I have pieced together a full time Vista media center, Ive been having problems with the really slow network times when it comes to transferring files between that PC and my Vista laptop. I realized that burning those files to a disc were a lot faster than waiting for the files to transfer. Problem is, I never installed any cd/dvd burning software on that Media PC. The dvd drive came with Nero but at the time I didn’t feel like looking for it. That’s when I decided to download and try out CDBurnerXP.

I have to admit, I am a fan of Nero and have been for years, I never look at anything else. I was pleasently surprised by CDBurnerXP. First of all its FREE. When I first found it, the listing in Google called it a free Nero Alternative. This little piece of software does indeed have a lot of features. Support for CD, DVD, Bluray and HDDVD. Yep I did say Bluray and Hddvd. Other features include some ISO tools and Litescribe integration. Its really a full featured disc burning solution.

The interface is pretty standard, when you first load CDBurnerXP, you get the window asking what type of disc you want to burn then you are taken to a file explorer style screen where you can then select your files and add them to the compilation.

So far, things have been working out great and I can see installing CDBurnerXP on any of my machines if I dont specifically need Nero. Read more or download it here. (I know it says XP but it works in both XP and Vista)