SimplyBurns428

Brilliant little piece of Freeware. It's simple to use and rock solid. For most tasks it's better than many commercial programs.

Developer's on a looong hiatus from posting, I guess, because there's a new 64 bit version available at <https://sourceforge.net/projects/simplyburns/files/> (Don't know what's with this link, but if you paste it into a Safari window, it works.) Haven't had occasion to do any burning yet, but it DOES run in Catalina.

Doesn't work. Using Mac OSX High Sierra and an external Pioneer CD/DVD drive. Failed to rip or burn a single CD.

Like quite a few Mac users, I found doing Finder burns of dual-layer DVDs for data backups becoming increasingly problematic. Eventually, it got to the point that it no longer mattered which brand of disc I tried or whether I used my mini’s built-in disc burner or an external one. Even trying slower burn speeds didn’t help. Single-layer DVDs? Usually no problem. But dual-layer ones eventually achieved unbroken solidarity in giving me upraised middle fingers every single time. Perusing Apple’s support forums offered little help. The problem appeared to be common, longstanding, associated with a wide variety of hardware/OS combinations, and largely unsolved, with no attempted fix working consistently or reliably for any significant number of users. So something finally occurred to me: What if the problem has something to do with the fact that I’m using the Finder for burning? Maybe I should try a dedicated burning application. Since I can be a cheap bastard, I decided to give first crack to freeware and chose the one with the most recent release date. That was SimplyBurns version 428. I’ve never looked back. Since I started using SimplyBurns, and only SimplyBurns, I’ve burned a little over 200 data discs (not all of them dual-layer DVDs, but most of them; sometimes a single-layer is enough) and experienced only two failures. And those were not failures to burn but failures to verify. (Yes, I always verify.) Bonus: Every one of those was achieved at full available burn speed. I have never once had to sacrifice burn speed for burn reliability. The dual-layer discs I’ve used are Verbatim DVD+R and Memorex DVD+R. The single-layer discs I’ve used are TDK DVD+R, Sony DVD-R, and Sony DVD+R. Since I abandoned Finder burns, I’ve moved from a Mac mini (Late 2009) to a Mac mini (Late 2014), from Mavericks to El Capitan, and to a newer external optical disc burner. But SimplyBurns continues to work like a champ. Not bad for an application that was last updated Oct. 28, 2011.

I use this for most of my burning. It's very easy to use, and it does a good job. There are some things it can't do, but I can't remember them at the moment - maybe burn bootable DVDs, or read bin/cue files? Anyway, one thing I have noticed is that, if I burn the same project over and over again, it'll start to behave a little strangely (for example, it'll burn a disc but not show a progress bar; instead, it just says "Medium: Busy" for the duration of the burn). Eventually it crashes. This is somewhere in the range of 15-18 consecutive burns. Quitting and relaunching returns it to normal behavior. (So does letting it crash.) Luckily I burn such a high volume of discs (30+) very infrequently, and quitting/relaunching such a lightweight program only takes a second. Still, it would be nice if something could be done about that.

How Do I make a MP3 CD? On "Burn" it has MP3 CD settings, so I can fit a fair bit of music on one CD. I looked all over the developer site and could not find anything on this.

i am getting the following error message when I try to rip a dvd "DiscOperation_ErrorKey" = "HdiUtilError_CreateFailed"; "DiscOperation_RealTaskDurationKey" = 3.292999982833862; "DiscOperation_ReturnCodeKey" = 1; what am I doing wrong?

A little bit of software gem, congratulations to its creator.

Brilliant little piece of Freeware. It's simple to use and rock solid. For most tasks it's better than many commercial programs.

I have a CDimage.ape, CDImage.ape.cue and a CDImage.cue file ... can this program burn a CD from these (Windows produced) files? I've tried using the Image portion of the SW but the resulting burned disc is 3,460 GB !!! No drive let alone optical media for that. The .ape is 326MB. Thanks

I have used the copy 1:1 feature once with success. I wanted to burn several DVDs but I am not sure how to do this. I see a copy again button that is greyed out and do not seem to be able to access a previously created project. I would like to be able to keep burning new disks whenever needed from the first image, is it possible to save it as a project or find it on my drive?

This is a well-made piece of freeware. I'm glad it's ready for Snow Leopard now. Too bad I can't download it because the developer's link and site are having problems.

Tried burning CDs via iTunes on my MacBook several times using various speeds - CD wouldn't play in my car. Burning CDs via iTunes on my PC works fine but not on my MacBook (bought new less than a year ago). Downloaded SimplyBurns, created CD using same tunes I had in the iTunes playlist - SUCCESSFUL!! Very simple, I didn't have to fiddle around with options, preferences: just dragged the tunes from iTunes to the SimplyBurns list area, clicked on 'Burn' ...that's all folks!!! I wasted about 10 blank CDs trying to burn via iTunes. I wasted 0 blank CDs burning via SimplyBurns. Found SimplyBurns via Google search. Very glad I did!!

New added GUI really helps get this a 4 to 5 star rating -now doing a 1 to 1 copy is right on and straight forward帠鋑궰ᘅꪠ鋐

Leopard support in the days following 10.5 is an excellent news as SimplyBurns is already my baseline software :-)

Oh yeah, sorry. I forgot to add that the problem I have occurs during "1:1 Copy Mode".

Great program! Excellent for non-commercial DVD reproduction. Only one thing, and it doesn't really effect anything, it's more of a cosmetic thing - when I burn multiple discs, a "ghost image" of the last transfer stays on the screen. Can you fix this?

Excellent! Keep up the work! I've only burned 1 DVD so far with great results, when Mac The Ripper couldn't do the job. I am impressed and I expect I will eventually donate! Thanks for the good work.

I really like this little application! It's nice and simple (as the title suggests) It's friendly to use even for someone like me who is fairly ignorant of the finer points of burning. It's nice and small Holy cow, it's free! I was able to successfully burn a dual-layer dvd the first time I used it with no trouble at all. Wow. Thanks to the developer for making this great, stable app!

Great little application. Very easy to use and invaluable arsinal for your toolbox.

I am glad to see that's still being developed. Keep it up! =)

Looks very good, better than DiskBlaze. Please persistent to develop.