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With Windows 7 becoming the popular operating system for newbies and tech savvy users, it is a pain in ass job to look around for freeware CD/DVD burners or simply say you want burner for free. None the less most popular burners come for a price while still there are equally competitive and compulsive alternate CD/DVD burners out there as good as paid counter parts. Some people still stick around with cracked shareware burners. Here is a list of 20 freeware CD/DVD burners which supports nearly all popular Windows platform( Win XP/Vista/Win 7 ) and compatible with the most of the hard ware writers. Many of this burner also supports Blu-Ray disc apart from CD/DVD. These freewares have given the paid counter part the run for their money. Nero developers too came up with Nero 9 Lite freeware, a striped down version of Nero 9 with just the basic feature. With all such options in hand, do we need to purchase a DVD burner software? Look at the list below:

1. ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application. ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI. It can burn Audio CD's from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM - including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV. You can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease.If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes. It's a very flexible application with several advanced features that are often lacking in other tools, especially when it comes to burning DVD Video discs. It supports all the latest drives without the need for updates.

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2. CDBurnerXP

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

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3. BurnAware Free

BurnAware Free is a free CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc burning software. It is ideal for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, MP3 music, DVD-Video discs and burning disc images. Free, easy to set up, it enables you to save your files to disc quickly and provides clean, flexible interface to help you complete your burning tasks much faster.

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4. Burn4Free

Burn4Free is the new free burning solution. Easy to use. Compatible with more than 1100 CD/DVD drives. Burns data and audio from different files types (WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG and .CDA (Import from Digital Audio Disc File)) Burn/Save .ISO file. Verify content. Import your audio compilation from .M3U and .ASX Plyalists. CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW/DVD-RAM drives (SCSI-IDE/EIDE-USB 1.0/2.0) are supported. Multi-languages. ISO support.

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5. Explore&Burn - a free lightweight CD and DVD burner

Explore&Burn is a freeware CD/DVD burning application with intuitive and easy to use interface, integrated with Windows Explorer. It is the easiest and fastest way to burn files and ISO images on your computer to CD or DVD. Explore&Burn is extremely lightweight comparing to other bloated disc burning software, and does just what you need.

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6. DeepBurner - Powerful CD and DVD burning package absolutely for FREE

DeepBurner is an advanced and extremely powerful CD and DVD burning package that comes absolutely for FREE. It removes the hassle of making CDs, DVDs, and autoruns. It even makes it easy for you to create and print your own labels and booklets. DeepBurner supports a very wide range of internal and external (USB 2.0 and FireWire) CD and DVD writers. Burn any data, copy any disc, make backups, make ISO CDs with this very easy to handle software.

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7. Ultimate CD/DVD Burner

Ultimate CD/DVD Burner is a powerful and easy to use CD DVD burner software. Ultimate CD/DVD Burner is a free, fast, powerful and easy to use CD DVD burner software that burns data, audios, videos, and images to CDs or DVDs.

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8. SilentNight Microburner

The multi award winning SilentNight Micro CD Burner is a small standalone multimedia burner without need of any dll files or aspi layer to operate. You can even run it from a USB-Key. If you need to backup or burn some data/movies etc. or would like to duplicate a CD/DVD or even create some .ISO files, well... this is the burner for you.

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9. UsefulUtils Discs Studio

This free utility supports SCSI, ATAPI, Parallel port, USB and FireWire devices with features like On-The-Fly burning, PerformOPC, Over-burning, Test burning, Buffer Underrun Protection, various burning modes, bootable discs, Multi-session disc burning with choice of session import, multiple disc copies and audio track ripping with conversion to WMA, MP3, OGG and FLAC with FreeDB support. A Full-functional compact application for burning data, DVD-Video (miniDVD) and AudioCD on optical discs in Windows 98/NT/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Win7.

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10. Totally Free Burner

Totally Free Burner is a CD/DVD burner with a nice, minimalistic interface and an excellent range of features which will cover most people's CD/DVD burning needs.

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11. Ashampoo Burning Studio 6.76 FREE

Ashampoo Burning Studio is a free burning studio software allows you CD, DVD and Blu-Ray burning, multi-disc file backup, burn multiple discs, disc verification after burning and more. Beside that, you can also rip music tracks from Audio CDs and create or burn disc images in ISO or BIN/CUE format using Ashampoo burning studio. Ashampoo Burning Studio Free is focusing on what you want: burn discs quickly, easily, with maximum quality and minimum hassle.

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12. Nero Lite 9.4.12.708

Nero Lite is basically a stripped-down version of the original Nero suite. In fact it's so reduced it only lets you burn data discs and also create copies of discs. Nero Lite works with CD and DVD, and offers some basic options such as the ability to simulate the burning process before actually doing it or verify data on disc after burning. Nero Essentials also includes tools to analyze your disc and also erase re-writable discs.

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13. Plato CD DVD Data Burner Free 10.11.01

Plato CD DVD Data Burner Free Burn your data on CD, DVD, Double Layer with Plato CD DVD Data Burner .It supports all major drives including CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM, supports multisession, disc image and has easy file/folder management. Simple interface make it a most convenient software to create data CD and DVD.

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14. RZ Free DVD Burner

The RZ Free CD DVD Burner application was designed to be an easy to use burner software, that can help you burn files on any writeable disc, burn ISO files, burn AudioCD from wav audios, and burn Video DVD from hard disk Video DVD folder.

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15. Freaky Burn

Freaky Burn - CD / DVD burning software, allowing you to burn games, movies, data, audio, MP3, documents, and much more in a matter of few short clicks. Freaky Burn is using the latest technology in the market, with one of the best burning engines, allowing you to burn even faster then you thought your burning recorder is capable of. Version 1.2 is a bug fixing release.

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16. Free Easy CD DVD Burner V3.9

Free Easy CD DVD Burner. Complete free and easy CD & DVD burning solution. Burn data and audio (WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, FLAC, AAC, M4A) to your CDs & DVDs is now very easy with Free Easy CD DVD Burner. Burn and save ISO files, copy your CDs DVDs. Save your favorite audio CDs to mp3 with the internal grabber (CDDB request to get information about the album). Standard ISO9660 Joliet, buffer UnderRun protection, Support multisession. Support for dual-layer DVD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW.

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17. ICBurningRom

The ICBurningRom is a program for writing to CDs, DVDs, Blue-rays and all other types of discs. The ICBurningRom is one of the quickest too and you can configure lots of options in it. Before burning ICBurningRom is configuring your laser on CD-ROM so the CD-ROM will work longer. Version 1.1.10 features Audio burning and new design.

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18. Astroburn Lite

Astroburn Lite is a handy utility that was designed in order to help you quickly burn your files to disc in batches. It also supports writing disc image files. Handy tool for burning and mastering CD, DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD media.Astroburn allows you to perform burning, copying, erasing operations with all types of optical storage media: CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE, HD-DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM. Program also works with a wide variety of burning hardware.With Astroburn you can easily grab original discs to create image files and save them on your hard drive or compile disc images with the data or audio projects. Create CDs and DVDs with just a few mouse clicks. It’s easy to learn and to use.

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19. Express Burn 4.27

Express Burn you create and record MP3/WAV formats to CD in Windows for free. With Express Burn you can record a CD quickly and easily by dragging the files you want onto the Express Burn icon and clicking 'Burn'. The software then does the rest, including converting the files to .cda. Audio is recorded with direct digital recording (so perfect audio quality is maintained). Audio CD burning supports wav, mp3, wma, au, aiff, ra, ogg, flac, aac and a number of other audio file formats. Can burn audio CDs in seamlessly mode (with no pause between tracks). Normalize audio volume of tracks. Supports multi session recording to Audio CD. Records CD Recordable (CDR) and CD Re-recordable (CDRW) discs. Features a trial of Paid functionality - Video DVD Authoring and Data DVD Recording.

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20. StarBurn

StarBurn is a powerful burning tool for grabbing, burning and mastering CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD media. StarBurn supports all types of optical storage media as well as a wide variety of burning hardware. The advantages of StarBurn burning software is their DVD Splitting Wizard you can split DVD-Video discs into smaller parts and burn them to DVD writable discs or share them with the StarPort DVD-ROM emulator and watch DVD video directly on your PC. This enables you to create copies of 8.5 GB dual layer DVDs with just a few mouse clicks.

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