BurnAware Professional

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BurnAware is a family of full-featured and free burning software to create CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs of all types. Home users can easily burn bootable discs, multisession discs, high-quality audio CDs and video DVDs, make, copy and burn disc images. Power users will benefit from BurnAware's advanced options, including control of boot settings, UDF partition and versions, ISO levels and restrictions, session selection, CD text for tracks and discs, data recovering, disc spanning and direct copying.


Homepage:

http://www.burnaware.com/

Release date: July 12, 2017

Current version:  10.4

Size:  7.6 MB



Download :

Download fully functional free edition or try free trial of any commercial edition with additional tools.
http://www.burnaware.com/download.html
You can download a full version of BurnAware Free or evaluation versions of BurnAware Premium / Professional and try it for 10 days.
If you want to download any of the previous versions, please visit this page:
http://www.burnaware.com/downloads/backup/

System Requirements:

600 MHz Pentium processor
20 Megabytes of free disk space
128 Megabytes of RAM
800x600 video resolution
Windows XP (all service packs)
Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista
Windows 7-10 (32-bit or 64-bit)
All Media Storage supported: The program supports of a wide range of optical disc data storage, including CD, DVD, Blu-ray discs, Double Layer discs, rewritable and extra large capacity DVD and Blu-ray media.
 
Program versions:

The program has three Editions, here you can see the differences between



Installation: 

After downloading the program, installation is very easy and doesn’t need any skills. Simply double click on the installer, select your preferred language and follow on screen instructions till the program is working on your computer. You will have 10 days free trial with all functions available. After the trial is over you need to purchase a license to continue using the professional version or you can use the free version.

















Purchase:

The official website offers you many purchase options for different program versions. You can choose the one suitable for you. As a registered customer, you are entitled to use a full version of the software as long as you want and update it for free within one year. After one year, you will be able to purchase another year of free upgrades with 50% discount or continue to use purchased version.



Registration:

You can register the program after purchase is done. The process is very easy, simply start the registration dialogue then enter your name and the license key sent to your email while connected online then activate. That’s all!





User Interface:

The user interface is clean, effective, easy-to-use and multilingual.  The program main functions are available on the left side bar. These include data, multimedia, disc image and utilities. The right side show the tools located under each of the left sided buttons.
On the upper part, there are 4 buttons; file, settings, view and help









Features:

Burn files and folders to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Discs.
Append or update multisession discs.
Burn standard or boot disc images.
Burn ISO files to multiple recorders simultaneously.
Create boot CDs or DVDs.
Create Audio CDs.
Create DVD-Video discs and BDMV discs.
Create MP3 CD / DVD / Blu-ray Discs.
Make standard or boot disc images.
Copy CD, DVD or Blu-ray Discs to ISO images.
Copy CD, DVD or Blu-ray Discs 
Copy from discs to discs.
Verify discs byte by byte.
Recover files from damaged discs or different sessions.
Extract audio tracks from Audio CDs.
Erase and format re-writable discs.
View detailed disc and drive information.
Burn data across multiple discs (disc spanning)
Write ISO to multiple recorders simultaneously
High-DPI monitors support, low CPU usage and very stable burning process
Support of latest OS - Windows 10

Burnaware support of a wide range of optical disc data storage, including CD, DVD, Blu-ray, Double Layer discs, rewritable and extra large capacity Blu-ray media.



What's New?

New Features:
 New disc burning engine in Multiburn tool.
 New method of file extraction in Data Recorvery tool.
 Feature to check free space on hard drive prior to save ISO.

Enhancements :
 Optimized data buffering during burning process.
 Improvements to user interface and program's performance.
 Updated installer and translations.

Bug Fixes :
 Fixed bug with arranging data in Span Disc tool.
 Resolved problem with hot keys and keyboard support.
 Resolved problem with disc erasing in Multiburn tool.
 Minor bug fixes and improvements.

To see the full list of available features, please visit this page:
http://www.burnaware.com/files/changelog.txt 
 
How to use Burnaware:

Now, BurnAware covers all daily burning tasks such as disc burning, backup, verification, image creation, copying, erasing, data recovery, audio track extraction. Besides standard options, BurnAware offers many advanced options such as BOOT settings, UDF partition and versions, ISO levels and restrictions, session selection, CD-Text for track and disc, byte by byte verification, direct copying, disc spanning and many more. To discuss all these features in details, we need to know the main key features available for use. 

The program has 4 main burning features that will help you:

Data

Data Disc, Boot Disc, Span Disc, Copy Disc

Multimedia

Audio CD, MP3 Disc, DVD-Video,

Disc Images

Burn ISO, Copy to ISO, Make ISO, Make Boot ISO, Multiburn

Utilities

Erase Disc, Disc Info, Verify Disc, Data Recovery,

Now I will discuss these features in details

Data disc:

This is the most commonly used feature, using a CD or DVD to store information and data. This will help you to have a backup of your storing important information such as articles, books, reports, and so on.
After you add the data you want to burn, select file system of the disc - UDF, ISO or ISO+UDF then start and wait till the program finish the job. Now you have many options to specify. For example; you can finalize the disc or allow multisession, verify data. Also, Buffer underrun protection (automatically stop in the event of an unplanned interruption) or use optimum writing power calibration
The program will help you to create a boot disc which is often used as an "emergency disc" to start the computer if it is not possible to access the hard drive.





If you are planning to add and burn files across multiple discs, you can do this easily using the built-in span disc feature. In addition, you can have an exact copy of your disc using the program. This feature is available only in the professional and premium versions. The process is very easy, all you have to do is to insert the disc you want to copy then start the program and specify source and destination. That’s all!

Multimedia Disc:



This format is very common nowadays and has a lot of uses. For example you can use it in educational purposes, medicine, engineering, music lovers, movies and many more. The program will help you to create your multimedia CD or DVD in an easy and quick way. You can burn audio CD, MP3 disc, video DVD.
Audio CD contains music files and can be played using all standard CD players. You can enjoy your favorite music anywhere. The program supports different audio formats. For example; MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, M4A, AAC and FLAC. You will easily add the source files using add tracks button the select output format and start. That’s all!  This feature has also many options you can specify. These include; write CD-Text (writes an extra information to Audio CD, for example; CD title, names of the tracks and artists). Disc-at-once (whole medium written in one go), Track-at-once (writes every track individually), pause (for example between tracks). You can remove pause using 0.
MP3 Disc contains music stored in one or more MP3 or WMA files. This can hold more music but has the disadvantage of lower quality and not supported by all players
DVD-Video contains high-quality video files and can be played on any DVD player. This feature doesn’t support conversion of AVI, MOV, WMV formats to DVD-Video
Audio Grabber is a built in tool which will allow you to extract audio tracks from Audio CD and save them in various formats on your hard drive.
BDMV/AVCHD tool starts a dialogue which lets you create DVD or Blu-Ray disc with BDMV/AVCHD format







Disc Images:



An ISO image is a snapshot or archive file of an optical disc. It contains disc layout, all data contents of every written sector and the optical disc file system. ISO is a common CD image format for DOS, Windows, Linux, and other operating systems. It is widely used for storing CD content.
Using the program, you can easily create ISO image using make iso feature which allows you to use local files on your computer. You will need to choose from two available file systems namely ISO9660 or UDF according to your needs. You can also make the disc bootable.
If you need to copy your disc to ISO image, simply use copy to image feature. Finally, you can use one of the main features to burn ISO image to CD or DVD. Burning ISO image feature lets you easily write ISO or CUE/BIN image to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc. The burning options are the same as those discussed with data disc.
The professional version lets you burn to multiple drives at the same time (multiburn)











Utilities:



Burnaware professional has many built in utilities that are useful for you. If you have disc of RW type, you will be able to erase all its contents either complete or quick. All you need is to install the program and have recorder with support to this feature.
Using disc info tool, you can also gain information about the disc and the drive. For example, you will find disc information such as file system, free space, sessions, and so on. You can also have many information about the drive such as compatibility, firmware and so on.
You can also check the inserted disc for errors using verify disc feature. You can recover data in the premium and professional versions. This tool allows to browse and extract files from different type of discs. For example; If have audio CD inserted, you can use data recovery utility to extract separate tracks or even copy whole disc into a CUE image







Program settings (Options):
 
 







Pros:

Burn files and folders to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Discs.
Copy CD, DVD or Blu-ray Discs
Make standard or boot disc images.
Create Audio CDs, MP3 CD/DVD, and video DVD
Erase and format re-writable discs.
Support of latest OS - Windows 10
View detailed disc and drive information.
Easy to use with friendly interface
And many more

Cons:  None

Conclusion:

BurnAware is a comprehensive burning software which allows users to write all types of files such as digital photos, pictures, archives, documents, music and videos to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. With BurnAware, you also be able to create bootable or multisession discs, high-quality Audio CDs and Video DVDs, make and burn ISO images, copy and backup discs, extract audio tracks, erase and verify data, recover data from multisession or unreadable discs. In addition, the program is easy to use, with friendly user interface, minimum requirements and affordable price. 

[baziroll]

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[lpe]

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[Starship]

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