Reviewer, 2009-02-26 09:45:00

BurnAware will show you that CD/DVD burning can be easy and enjoyable. Use it for free and get access to a full range of major burning operations without obligations - no ads, no limitations, no spyware - wrapped into an attractive modern package.

Features: BurnAware Free Edition is essentially a disc burner. It can burn all CD/DVD media types including the Blu-ray media. You can create data, bootable and multisession CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs. Creating DVD video is part of the agenda of course. But there are various other things this application can do otherwise. Creating a boot disc image, creating and recording just disc images are part of the functionalities. It can create audio CDs and MP3 collections on CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs. The writing is on the fly for all image copying, no staging required. Written files are verified automatically.

UDF/ISO9660 and Joliet Bridged file systems or any combination of those can be handled. The burner is able to operate through a range of hardware interfaces that include IDE/ SCSI/ USB/ 1394/ SATA. CD-text and Unicode characters are supported. It can work in Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 (32 and 64 Bit) environments.

Overall: The interface is nice and clean. Options are grouped together quite well. You can choose image burning, multimedia burning that include creating MP3 discs, utility tasks such a erasing a disc and so on. Integrated with explorer like interface when picking the files for burning.