The BurnAware Free Edition application was designed to be a lightweight, extremely powerful and easy to use burning tool for burning and mastering CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD media, which is suitable for both beginners and power users.

BurnAware Free Edition supports all types of optical storage media (including CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE, HD-DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM) as well as a wide variety of burning hardware.

· Writes to all CD/DVD media types including Blu-Ray (BD-R/BD-RE)
· Writes discs from disc images
· Writes DVDs from DVD-Video files
· Writes Audio CDs from WAV, MP3, or WMA files
· Creates disc images
· Supports all current hardware interfaces (IDE/SCSI/USB/1394/SATA)
· On-the-fly writing for all image types (no staging to hard drive first)
· Writes Multi-Session to all supported media formats
· Auto-verification of written files
· Supports unicode for multi-byte languages
· Clean, flexible, easy to use interface.