Nero Burning ROM, commonly called Nero, is an optical disc authoring program from Nero AG. The software is part of the Nero Multimedia Suite but is also available as a stand-alone product. It is used for burning and copying optical discs such as CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays. The program also supports label printing technologies LightScribe and LabelFlash and can be used to convert audio files into other audio formats.

Name

Nero Burning ROM is a

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in reference to Roman Emperor

Nero Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68), was the fifth Roman emperor and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 un ...

, who was best known for his association in the

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. The emperor allegedly fiddled while the city of Rome burned. Also, Rome in German is spelled Rom. The software's logo features a burning

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, although this is an

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as it was not built until after Nero's death.

Features

Nero Burning ROM is only available for

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. A

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-compatible version was available from 2005 to 2012, but it has since been discontinued. In newer versions, media can be added to compilations via the Nero MediaBrowser. Nero AirBurn, a new feature in Nero 2015, enables users to burn media straight from their mobile devices. The latest version is Nero Burning ROM 2017 released in October 2016 including 4.0 with 256-bit encryption. The software supports the creation of a variety of media formats: *

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files *

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discs *

DVD-Video DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD discs. DVD-Video was the dominant consumer home video format in Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia in the 2000s until it was supplanted by the high-definition Blu- ...

discs *

Blu-ray Disc The Blu-ray Disc (BD), often known simply as Blu-ray, is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released on June 20, 2006 worldwide. It is designed to supersede the DVD format, and capable of sto ...

s *

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video discs * Bootable data discs * ISO/ UDF data discs * discs Additional functions include: * Printing on discs with LightScribe and LabelFlash technology * Erasing rewritable discs * Copying audio CD tracks in a choice of audio formats onto a hard disk drive * Converting audio files to other audio file formats * Connection to the online music database

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Image format support

Nero Burning ROM works with a number of

optical disc image An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media) is a disk image that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system. IS ...

formats, including the raw uncompressed image using the ISO9660 standard and Nero's proprietary NRG

file format A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital storage medium. File formats may be either proprietary or free. Some file format ...

. Depending on the version, additional image formats may be supported. To use non-natively supported formats such as lossless

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, and Shorten, additional program modules must be installed. The modules are also known as plug-ins and

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s and are usually free, although Nero AG sells some proprietary video and audio plug-ins. Standard CD images created by Nero products have the

filename extension A filename extension, file name extension or file extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file (e.g., .txt, .docx, .md). The extension indicates a characteristic of the file contents or its intended use. A filename extension is typically ...

.NRG, but users can also create and burn normal

ISO image An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media) is a disk image that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system. ...

Varieties

Nero Burning ROM is integrated in the Nero Multimedia Suite and is also available as a downloadable standalone product. It is also a part of Nero Essentials – a slimmed-down version of Nero Multimedia Suite – that comes bundled with OEM computers and optical disc writers.

Version history

Nero Burning ROM

Note: Although Nero AG appears to no longer maintain a history of older versions on their website, release notes are archived by several third-party sites.

Nero Linux

References

External links

Official website
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