Foobar2000, Burning without Nero
I don't wanna say much about Nero. We don't install a huge piece of crap just to burn some discs.
ImgBurn has always been the perfect replacement. It's free, it's compact and it's powerful. I will also recommend to you the open source InfraRecorder. Ok, I won't go too far.
The official component (or say "plugin") foo_burninate.dll enables foobar2000 of burning discs, but it needs to invoke the Nero API, which means Nero is required to be installed. Canar from hydrogenaudio forum provided an alternative, yet it didn't satisfy me.
Let me get this straight: You want to burn discs using foobar2000 but don't want to keep Nero. You take all necessary files from Nero, then wipe it off your hard drive, and you cheat foobar2000 into thinking that Nero is still present.
I've been doing this for like 3 years, treated a ton of lossless stuff, and it's proved to be fairly reliable. Read on if you wanna know how, but you hack at your own risk.
1. Get Nero Burning ROM v6.6.1.15c, install it. I picked this version because it's relatively small. I haven't tested this with 7.x or greater.
2. Copy these 10 files from where Nero has been installed, put them to (for example) "D:\foobar2000\nero\".
CDROM.CFG / CDROM.dll / Generatr.dll / image.dll / MMC.dll / Nero.txt / neroAPI.dll / neroErr.dll / neRSDB.dll / newtrf.dll
3. Open notepad and ctrl c/v the following codes, save it as nero.reg, then merge them into Windows registry.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ahead\shared]
"NeroAPI"="D:\\foobar2000\\nero"
4. If there's a 4th step, it's only supposed to be the uninstallation of Nero. Happy burning with foobar2000!
Updated: I seem to remember that you can open the Nero6 installer with WinRAR and extract the necessary files without installing for even once. It's been years since I last used Nero, thanks znix for reminding me!
