BurnAware Home 4.7 Beta / 4.6

BurnAware Home 4.6 is considered as a simple yet useful CD, DVD and BD disc-burning tool which is designed specifically for users who do not need professional features, but need some flexibility and additional functionality besides the basic feature set. The program allows you to create and burn all kinds of CD, DVD and Blu-Ray discs, including audio, video, data and bootable discs.

Like the basic free version, BurnAware Home easily handles such tasks as data backup to various optical media, creation of fully configurable bootable discs, creation and writing to multisession discs, conversion of popular audio formats and creation of Audio CDs, creation of DVD discs that can be played on home DVD players and popular consoles, as well as disc image burning and grabbing. Extras include the ability to create disc copies directly to another drive, extract files from sessions and music tracks from Audio CDs.

• On-the-fly burning
• Small installation size
• Easiest-to-use, multilingual user interface
• Lowest CPU usage while burning and copying
• Supports all types of optical drives and discs
• Uses the most fastest and stable burning engine
• Supports all major audio and disc image formats
• No banners, adware, spyware

Major Features:

1. Data Compilations
2. • Burn, backup or copy your files to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Discs.
   • • Supports recording from command-line and BAT scripts for automating routine actions.
     • Supports CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE and DVD-RAM media, including high-capacity double-layer media.
     • Supports UDF (Universal Disc Format 1.02-2.60), Bridge and ISO9660 (Level 1-3, Romeo), including Joliet Unicode extensions.
   • Create Bootable CD or DVD. Use it as a very big floppy boot disc for recovery purposes.
   • • El Torito creation support with advanced options: emulation type, sectors, platform, load segment and boot message.
   • Append or update Multisession discs.
   • Create Audio CDs. Play a CD on your traditional CD player or car stereo.
   • • Supports MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, M4A, AAC and FLAC audio formats and M3U playlists.
     • Supports title and track CD-Text, including Unicode.
   • Create DVD-Video discs and MP3 CDs/DVDs.
3. Multimedia Compilations
   • Make and burn standard or boot disc images.
   • • Supports ISO and CUE/BIN image files.
     • Supports UDF (Universal Disc Format 1.02-2.60), Bridge and ISO9660 (Level 1-3, Romeo), including Joliet Unicode extensions.
   • Copy disc to ISO image. This feature can be used for disc backup, as well as for disc copying.
4. Disc Images
   • Copy CD, DVD or Blu-ray Discs. Make exact copies of your DVD-Video, Audio CD or standard Data discs.
   • Recover files. Extract files from different sessions, corrupted discs or extract audio tracks from Audio CDs.
   • Erase re-writable CD, DVD or Blu-ray discs.
5. Utilities

Enhancements:

• Added Misc tab to Options.
• Added option to choose method of speed detection (predefined values or detection).
• Added option to fill bad sectors with blank while copying disc to image.
• Reduced time of processing files and adding files to compilation.
• Resolved problem with wrong drive selection, if more than one drive installed.
• Minor improvements were applied.

Requirements:

•  The software supports the most popular Windows versions, including NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 (32 and 64-bit) and does not require the .NET framework.