ImgBurn freeware links burn speeds to specific media

ImgBurn freeware: A "Nero killer"?
I was looking for a "Nero killer" -- a freeware application that could do what the commercial software application Nero does, or at least offered a substantial subset of its features. Now in its 2.3 revision, the ImgBurn freeware utility has a raft of familiar features—creating , burning and verifying CDs and DVDs, mainly—but comes loaded with so many other additional functions that I'm compelled to pay for it. With its new features, the product can:

Additional ImgBurn features

The ImgBurn freeware utility even has a feature that I haven't see

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n in any for-pay burning application: the ability to associate burn speeds with specific devices or even media types. If you know a certain kind of disc can't be burned over a certain speed, or can be burned at a certain speed, you can set the program to automatically switch to a designated speed when that media is inserted. For instance, I have a pile of DVD-Rs, certified at 4x, which I found worked fine at 8x speed, and was able to let the program automatically burn them at 8x whenever they were used.

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