Best burning software for macbook?

Should I pay for a burning program or is there a good free one that is equivelent to nero or a free one for windows?

I will be doing some .iso files (or whatever the mac equivelent is)

If I could find a free program to mount files and programs that would also be great for backups etc.

Free is the best

 

I don't do much burning, so I have no true experience in this area, but Finder does basic burning.

You can also look at Disco, which costs money. Its less than Toast Titanium though, which is more powerful and more pricey.

http://discoapp.com/

http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html

 

I use Toast Titanium, but that costs money. I'm not too sure about free ones though.

 

Well, technically the command line "hdiutil" will do basically everything,

Opensource Burn is much more macish:
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/

 

toast gets the thumbs up from me

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Disk Utility - can mount/burn .iso straight out of the box and it's already inside your computer.

 

Definitely a very good point.

Before paying $$ or considering alternatives you should first explore OS X's native burn support, Disk Utility.

Though, Disk Utility is not equivalent to Nero. Toast Titanium has similar features to Nero. You may want to just boot your MacBook into Windows and use Nero anyways.

 

I agree, start with the cheapest and then work your way up. I would start with Disk Utility and that open source one above. If they don't work out for you, try out the demo of Disco ($29). If that does not work, then Toast ($79) last. I would only get Toast for a specific feature you need because it is quite large and rather costly when most of the others listed will likely do what you want.

 

does disk utility convert .mp3's to make audio cd's to be played in a cd player?

 

Can't you do that in iTunes? The CDs I burn in iTunes work fine.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60784

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/7.3/en/540win.html