Try having Nero burn at a slower rate of speed like 4x or 8x. If the computer is an older, slower unit, with less memory, slower processor, etc., the read buffer in Nero might be running out.
If you ask tech savvy users for CD burning software recommendations they usually propose Nero Burning Rom as the commercial software to pick, but chance is that they will list five to ten free CD burning software programs.Not all of the free alternatives to Nero provide all the features that Nero comes with, but most do a very fine job when it comes to basic CD, DVD and Blu-Ray burning tasks.But money is not the only issue for most users. Nero has become bloated over time with lots of additional burning tools that most users do not need.The free CD burning alternatives are usually lightweight and tend to concentrate on the popular operations that most users do when burning CDs.
Free CD Burning Software ImgBurnThe review could probably end here as ImgBurn is a complete CD burning software. It supports a wide variety of disk images, most Microsoft operating systems, video CDs, DVDs, HD DVD and Blu-Ray disks as well as audio CDs.The only drawback is that its usage can be complicated at the beginning. I have used ImgBurn for a couple of years and believe the feature set is second to none.I do however have reservations about the interface, even after using it for so long I’m still not completely comfortable with it. Yes I do know how to use it but still I find it intimidating, I would would personally prefer an interface that looks like neroCDBurnerXP.To give you an example, most people including myself have to read a tutorial before burning an audio CD with it, an everyday feature like this should be intuitive. When I used Vista 32bit I was a big fan of InfraRecorder. After I upgraded to Windows 7 64bit InfraRecorder no longer worked and would crash just before the burn process started. Their web site also doesn’t appear to be updated all that often which lead me to believe (possibly mistakenly) that development had ceased on the project.Thanks for posting this article as I have been looking for other free alternatives now that I have upgraded to Win7.
Hopefully ImgBurn supports crossfading audio tracks (or making gapless audio tracks). That was my favorite feature of using Nero to burn Audio CDs.