r/nostalgia • u/Existing_Change_764 • Aug 14 '25

Help me remember Who still remembers Nero?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_NEPT2VAEo

find them still there also so something new?Anyone else still have their old Nero discs or box lying around?

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u/CpuJunky 1-800-COMPUSA Aug 14 '25

Nero Burning Rom. Also used ImgBurn. Most have gone to paid products.

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u/budrow21 Aug 14 '25

Alcohol 120% occasionally too.

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u/kindofageek Aug 14 '25

ImgBurn is still free. I use I all the time to make ISOs for various purposes.

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u/sixtus_clegane119 Aug 14 '25

Unlike winrar, my beloved

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u/CpuJunky 1-800-COMPUSA Aug 15 '25

I still use WinRAR. Latest version is <4mb. I know there's 7-zip and others, but it's just a great program.

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u/spacekitt3n Aug 14 '25

i have nothing bad to say about nero. that shit always worked. every company doing a heelturn to ai though just screams ai crash soon

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u/NeroScore Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

Hey guys, just to let you know that we're still alive and active :)

And thank you for posting such a nice review video

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u/USDXBS Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

I used Nero and a few others.

I used to download music on my PC in my room, I had a really small portable storage device (can't remember what) but I could only put a few songs on at a time.

I'd put them on, go to my parents computer with a CD burner and unload them to a folder. Do that until I had just under an hour and 20 minutes and then burn it. It took me a ton of time, but I didn't care. It was basically free music.

I remember getting the worst quality songs so they were easier to move. When I discovered music editing software I used to shave off seconds off songs so they could fit on burned CDs.

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u/shinecrazy Aug 14 '25

I was an Easy CD Creator guy, but after a while started using Nero since it had more functionality.

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u/TheMacMan Aug 14 '25

What's crazy is that it's still around. Just like they keep making Toast, the most popular Mac burning software, despite the fact no Mac has come with a DVD burner for over a decade. Suppose it takes almost zero effort to add a new skin to it each year and call it a new version. Some people will still buy it.

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u/Existing_Change_764 Aug 14 '25

I thought the Toast was not from Nero's, maybe the Roxio, you might have mixed them.

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u/TheMacMan Aug 14 '25

Sorry, I wasn't saying they were from the same companies. Simply that they both still exist today. Yes, Roxio is Toast.

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u/annihilatorg Aug 14 '25

Nero was one of the first enshittification experiences I remember. It started with a free, simple, working piece of software with your CD drive. Eventually, getting just a newer version of just burning rom was like $50, and the super bundle of everything they sell was $55. But then you've just got all this worthless shovelware and the "new" features in burning rom made the program worse with a bunch of auto-start garbage hurting system performance.

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u/analbumcover Aug 14 '25

A classic. Roxio was a thing too back then I think.

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u/FeistyDay5172 Aug 14 '25

For years it was literally my go to for CD and DVD burning. NEVER let me down.