In My Bag

When burning MP3s downloaded from Napster and WinMX to CD-Rs was the “in” thing, before the days of MP3 players (or at least, MP3 players becoming mainstream AND affordable!), you better believe I was right there. At the time I had Roxio Easy CD Creator, and later, Nero. Well, almost three years ago I got my first iPod, so worrying about CD burning software became a thing of the past.

Until I became really into taking photographers, and thought to myself, “Hey self, it might be a good idea to back up all of these photos!”

So last week I bought a spindle of DVD-Rs, thinking the process of transferring a few gigs of photos to a blank DVD-R via Windows Explorer would be a piece of cake. Right. As if anything with Windows, particularly Windows Vista, would be simple. After three instances of DVD-Rs being “burned” only to show up blank or corrupted, I decided to try out CD burning software once again. I went right to Nero.

Nero 8.0 was easy to install, easy to configure, and most definitely easy to use! I haven’t done any type of media CDs or DVDs, but I would imagine they would be as simple and straightforward as a data DVD was. With Windows Explorer I had to wait for it to format the DVD, pull its head out of its ass, and then take three to four HOURS (I am not exaggerating). With Nero 8.0, I waited four to seven minutes.

In summary, I would definitely recommend Nero for your CD/DVD burning and ripping needs.