Heeter
Overclocked Like A Mother
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Since I had had enough of Nero 5.5, I asked in another Thread what freeware could replace Nero. Two options were givin to me.
CoatHanger007 then asked me to compare BurnAtOnce to CDBurnerXPPro.
Being used to Nero, I looked at these two progs from a Nero user standpoint.
CDBurnerXPPro definately wins in the user friendly interface. Any Nero or EZCD user can quickly figure out what to do to compile and write a CD with this prog. Pretty limited as to what you can do with it too. Audio and DVD's, that's it. No mastering. Atleast none that I can see. Size of installation:22.4Megs
BurnAtOnce was not easy for me to get working. I fried 12 CD's trying Bin/Cue, Bootable Slipstreaming, and Audio configurations. The help file was really no help at all. The forums was a big help for each of the mentioned configurations, but the moderator was not impressed that I was a newbie to the bin/cue burn using burnatonce. He seemed pissed of that I did not understand the help file and was asking a dumb question. Size of Installation:2.47Megs
CDBurnerXP Pro, does have one major fault through the 4 audio cd's that I burnt, it is that it recreates a new buffer for each song that it is going to burn. This meant an inexcusably long burn times. Average 700meg audioCD burn: 22minutes.
Between the two: I am tipping my hat towards the BurnAtOnce because of: burn times, complete control over mastering, extremely small installation footprint, but I will be posting questions about it here as I am sure that I will get removed from the forums over there if I ask another simpleton type question again. Dam newbies!!!
My computer settings for comparison: IMAPI disabled, Autoplay enabled, let prog detect max burn speed, same mp3 songs for both burns, totalling 651megs.
I have found my Nero replacement, totally freeware.
Heeter
CoatHanger007 then asked me to compare BurnAtOnce to CDBurnerXPPro.
Being used to Nero, I looked at these two progs from a Nero user standpoint.
CDBurnerXPPro definately wins in the user friendly interface. Any Nero or EZCD user can quickly figure out what to do to compile and write a CD with this prog. Pretty limited as to what you can do with it too. Audio and DVD's, that's it. No mastering. Atleast none that I can see. Size of installation:22.4Megs
BurnAtOnce was not easy for me to get working. I fried 12 CD's trying Bin/Cue, Bootable Slipstreaming, and Audio configurations. The help file was really no help at all. The forums was a big help for each of the mentioned configurations, but the moderator was not impressed that I was a newbie to the bin/cue burn using burnatonce. He seemed pissed of that I did not understand the help file and was asking a dumb question. Size of Installation:2.47Megs
CDBurnerXP Pro, does have one major fault through the 4 audio cd's that I burnt, it is that it recreates a new buffer for each song that it is going to burn. This meant an inexcusably long burn times. Average 700meg audioCD burn: 22minutes.
Between the two: I am tipping my hat towards the BurnAtOnce because of: burn times, complete control over mastering, extremely small installation footprint, but I will be posting questions about it here as I am sure that I will get removed from the forums over there if I ask another simpleton type question again. Dam newbies!!!
My computer settings for comparison: IMAPI disabled, Autoplay enabled, let prog detect max burn speed, same mp3 songs for both burns, totalling 651megs.
I have found my Nero replacement, totally freeware.
Heeter