This latest version of the Nero digital-media suite is easy to use and has great media-sharing capabilities, but we wish it had more advanced video-editing and DVD-authoring functions.

But new times and new blood have conspired to make Nero Kwik Media Free, a gratis version of the company’s multimedia librarian, player, burner and transcoder–intuitive, of all things.

Yowser! I must admit that a free version of Nero’s burning suitecaught me by surprise. I suppose it shouldn’t have, as there areenough free disc burning alternatives out there–and ...

The Nero Digital Audio encoding software is available via download --free of charge-- for personal and non-commercial use. Downloading the software is a simple process with step-by-step instructions.