Best CD/DVD burning software?

[Steve121178]

As the title says, what would you recommend? I mainly want to create audio CD's and burn data to DVD for backup purposes.

A free app would be great but I don't mind paying for something that's really good. (Not keen using iTunes to create CD's...).

Thanks.

 

[Weaselboy]

Burn is free and gets the job done.

 

[Fishrrman]

Without question, "Toast Titanium" is the premier app for CD/DVD burning and content creation on the Mac.

But as Weaselboy suggested above, try "Burn" first -- it may be all that you need.

There is also another free app out there you might try called "SimplyBurns".

 

[Macman45]

Burn, or simply a right click and burn will work if you aren't after anything sophisticated like menus, custom audio etc etc.

I guess Roxio is probably the best and we do have a copy installed on one machine....it does a great job with BRD too, but it's not the cheapest option out there.

 

[Dave Braine]

You can create audio or mp3 CDs with iTunes, and burn data to CDs/DVDs from Finder. No need to get alternatives.

 

[netslacker]

As mentioned by Dave, there's support for what you want to do built into iTunes for audio CD or finder for data CD/DVD. Disk Utility can also burn various disk images. After many years on a Mac I've never used anything else to burn a disk other than when I created a movie DVD.

 

[Steve121178]

Ok, some good info here. Thanks for the replies.

 

[kagharaht]

Disk Spanning Backup

I do like Burn. I haven't checked if there is anything new with it. What I missed with Toast is Disk Spanning. So that way you can just burn a Folder full of stuff and it will span to disk automatically.