I had always claimed that by using Easy CD by Adaptec and WinOnCD by CEQuadrat, that I would have the most comprehensive burner software, however when I discovered Nero 5.0 I had to eat my words. Initially I was slightly dubious about Nero, given the fact that it demanded that I uninstall DirectCD, a tool I had found very useful (when it didn't have problems with new fangled OSes). However it soon became clear, Nero offered all the functions that hitherto a combination of packages had offered, and then more besides. As well as the normal straight backups and designing a CD from scratch (nopun intended!) Nero provided me with options to back up my harddisks, my system  Read the complete review

I can remember when I was a lad back in the olden days, when I had just purchased my first CD burner. Oh what glorious days they were - no pollution, no cars. We could play in the middle of streets you know! Well, after just finishing a game of street footie at junction 24 on the M11 I popped indoors to find some software to put on my PC to burn CDs with. I remember first going to all sorts of places on the internet, looking for CD burning software. I did of course have some software that came with my burner, but I found that it was full of bugs and it wasn't worth the effort of wasting thousands of CDs on. I came across about 5 possible candidates, and in ...  Read the complete review

Ahead Software's Nero Burning ROM 5.5 (the latest version as I write) came bundled with my CD rewriter, so firstly I do not know how much it costs (I think I've seen it for about £40) and how it fares against other CD recording software. All I know is that it works well for me, and I got it for free! Unlike a few other CD recording programs (i.e. Adaptec's Easy CD Creator), Nero doesn't demand much computer power to run, requiring only a 486DX and 8mb RAM, though still an exact spec is dependent on your drive. And the whole suite only takes up about 50mb of hard disk space - worth it when you can offload a lot more to CD. The Nero 5.5 ...  Read the complete review

You've been paying over the odds for music for too long now. You're sick of handing over all that cash when if your mate had it on tape instead, you could run off a copy just like that. Capitalism is bad, profit margins are even worse, and the mere thought of Eminem making a living out of his work makes you sick. So, what do you do? You get out there, install Nero 5, and start making backup copies for your own personal use. Nero has rightfully earned a reputation as the best CD mastering software on the market. With its vast support for CD drives, it now comes shipped with almost all new burners and this has given it the edge over all competitors. When I ...  Read the complete review

I first became aware of Nero Burning ROM (a rather clever play on words, add an "E" to the end of the product name and you might get it) when I received a free copy with my Hewlett Packard based Medion CD Rewriter which I bought from Dixons almost exactly a year ago. I can only say that I am very glad that I did! Nero is streets ahead of the opposition. (I am thinking particularly of the dire Easy DC Creator software bundled with most CD Writers). Nero is manufactured by a German company called Ahead Software. It really is their flagship product and as such they make a big effort to constantly improve what has always been a superb ...  Read the complete review