Nero 9, does anyone use it?

I have an HP coming in the mail running Vista Ultimate (64) and I bought Nero 9 before I saw all of the negative user comments (ie on Amazon, Newegg, and I Googled it).

Anyone here have a bad exp with it? I thinking those naysayers might have been trying crcked or copies, not legit, therefore all of the horrible problems they posted probably came from that.

Does anyone have a good exp with Nero 9?

 

I find Nero has bloated itself way too much. Version 6 was the last version I used and kept as a result.

I now use CDBurnerXP instead, much lighter and works just for what i need it for.

 

I use Nero 7. I use a shortcut key to just open up the Nero Rom itself and does a fine job with data/music discs for CD/DVD's. Also does ok for burning DVD5. But the dual layer on seven is crap.. Always messes up the layer break. I'm wondering if they ever fixed that? But IMG burn does layer breaks (lets you manually choose them) which is probably the only way you are going to be successful with DVD9. I hate the Nero smartstart and all the Nero wizard applications.. But you can generally still run just the nero rom from start menus and I strongly advise setting up a shortcut key to that. Nero Rom has always been pretty good for basic burning/ music stuff. If you start doing dual layer or other transcoding jobs then use other softwares. But I also like Nero's ability to convert flac, ape, etc.. music to cd on the fly with all the plugins that are available. Nero does a good job with some things and fails miserably on many others. Its never been a all one solution center for burning IMO. But maybe 9 will prove me wrong but I doubt it.

I agree with the above poster that version 6 was all around the best and least bloated. Version 7 and above added more features but IMO does a poor job at them. The reason I upgraded to seven was to get dual layer support and it can't manage that even. I'm using 7 but from what I do, it might as well be 6. At least version 6 could do everything successfully that it was intended to do.

The Nero rom is the one exception less the dual layer functionality.

Edit.. I see version 9 can author BD blu ray etc.. If that is something you are interested in then yes, Nero 9 may be worth getting. The question is if the added functionality will work.

 

I have been using Nero 9 ... Lite version to be exact.
I also agree Nero became overly bloated for no apparent reason.
I just need the burner and nothing else.
Seems to be working fine from my perspective.
No issues here.

 

I use Nero Lite also and it just gives you want you need. Burning software.

 

I'm still on Nero 8, since I actually paid for it.
EDIT: Post 900! Yey.

 

I agree with him. I never had issues with it.

 

Keep in mind i ran mine on windows xp not on vista. So not sure if that makes a difference.

 

Agreed.
Nero Lite is just way better for simple burning tasks.
I just miss Nero Recode, which was really great to make DVD backups.

 

I'm on Nero 8 on my Vaio - but its 32 Bit.

As far as I can tell trouble free.

 

yea i just got it almost 600 mb for a burning program. i also did a custom install and basically took out everything that didnt have to do with burning like there photo view and tv recorder, and it was still 600 mb, huge.

 

I bought Nero 8 primarily for the included 'Recode' program, but figured it'd be a good all around suite to have just in case. Haven't seen any big need to upgrade at all.

 

Nero 8 lite FTW.

9 lite is still oversized. :<

 

I agree with all of you - Nero is just too bloated. Its got all these extra services running, and it has such a huge footprint.