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Brand: Roxio EAN: 0815227000012 Item Dimensions: Label: Roxio Manufacturer: Roxio Model: 1874900 Platform: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP Publisher: Roxio Release Date: March 05, 2001 Studio: Roxio Accessories:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Admit it: After installing your first CD burner, you transferred every byte of audio and data on your hard drive to CD simply because it was so cool that you could. Whether you're an audio-CD burnaholic or simply perform the occasional hard-drive backup, Easy CD Creator 5 offers excellent options for getting the job done. This powerful program delivers an exhaustive collection of data transfer and formatting options behind a super-slick interface. Pick just about any file format and this program provides an innovative way of storing it on CD. Burning an audio CD is a piece of cake for this tool, as is creating a video CD and picture slide shows, transferring audio from a cassette or phonograph to CD, and archiving a hard drive. A nifty CD label creator helps organize your archive as well. As expected, audio CD burning options are comprehensive. In addition to CDA-formatted audio (playable in most CD players) a great feature converts MP3 tracks into CD audio (and vice versa) and pumps up the audio quality of MP3 files lost during compression before transferring the batch of tracks to disk. A sound-transition control allows you to fade songs out or in, add a gap between tracks, or crossfade songs (great for mixed CDs featuring live recordings). For those party-mix CDs culled from various sources, a normalizer function smoothes each track's volume levels across the CD. Easy CD Creator 5 is much more than an audio-CD burner. A photo-sharing tool frames pictures into self-running slide-show presentations that can be backed with music. Videophiles will enjoy the video-CD capabilities. You can add any Quicktime, AVI, or series of still images to the layout interface, configure the layout, then burn the CD as an MPEG-1, viewable in compatible DVD players. CD burning is a CPU-taxing endeavor that'll spit out flawed disks if the hardware isn't up to the task. Easy CD Creator 5 requires a 200 MHz CPU or faster, and the recommended 64 MB RAM should be doubled to avoid those annoying buffer-overrun error messages. But if your system is up to par, Easy CD Creator 5 should churn out CD after CD of beautifully formatted disks. --Eric Twelker Amazon.com Product Description: Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum allows you to burn and share any type of data on CD. Create your own high-quality music CDs, create photo slide shows and video presentations, and archive all of your important files safely on CD. You can create high-quality customized music CDs from any source, including music CDs, cassettes, and Internet downloads. Easy CD Creator automatically converts MP3 files to create CDs that can be played in home and car stereos. The MP3 encoder allows users to go the other way as well, and transfer CD tracks to MP3 files. And the MP3 CD music project allows users to create CDs with over 100 MP3 songs to play in a computer or on an MP3 CD player. SoundStream 2 is an MP3 enhancer that allows users to improve the sound quality of MP3 files. Gap-edit control allows users to set the amount of silence between tracks, and track-transition effects add fade-in, fade-out, and cross-fade effects between songs. The software fully supports Red Book Audio for musicians and audio enthusiasts. You can also record from analog sources (phonograph, tape, or microphone): sound filtering removes pops, clicks, and hisses, and adjustable silence detection and track-splitting allows for the recording of entire albums. Easy CD Creator is also a solution for archiving and storing data. Protect your data from computer disasters; backup is achieved in three easy steps. The image-based backup allows system restoration and provides protection from crashes and viruses. There is support for automatic spanning across multiple CDs to backup large partitions. You can also create your own DVD movies: edit and save your videos to CDs that can be played on VideoCD players and many DVD players. Included is VideoImpression, an easy-to-use basic video editor with an MPEG-1 encoder that allows users to save their videos in a format that is compatible with Video CD Creator. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Disappointed with Roxio makers of Easy CD createtor 5 Platinum.I am extremelly disappointed with Roxio, the makers of CD Creators; especailly Easy CD Creator 5. I purchased Easy CD Creator 5, sometime back from an affiliate of Amazon.com. It was dispatched promptly and in very good condition. I installed it on my computer running Windows 98. After some initial problmes it was running fine. A few days back I installed Windows XP professional on my computer, and I got a message that the CD Creator was not compatible with this version of ... Read More Rating: - Burn CD's, not your money. Try other products first.The first version of Easy CD Creator I used was CD Creator 4 basic. It was okay, pretty much what it said it was: basic. I got the upgrade to that from an Ebay auction and it worked pretty good. Later due to lack of support by the manufacturer for new CDRW drives in good old version 4, I upgraded to CD Creator 5 Platinum (The version being sold here.) This too worked pretty good - for a little while. Then the operation was moved over from Adaptec to Roxio, and from that point onward, things have ... Read More Rating:  - No support; No updates; Nero incompatabilityI spent the last 3 hours trying to get support for this product. Although the site did not reject me it sent me through loops to get an "update" that when run, errored out as soon as it began. Rating: - Don't bother. Support bites! They only seem to want you to upgrade to latest versionThis program is average to below average in it's abilities. That said, just hope you don't need any Roxio tech support. Why? because Roxio's support bites! You CANNOT contact anyone online or by email for help; whenever their dis-functional "web portal" [web-based support] system traps you in an endless loop. I needed an couple simples updates for a pc that is NOT ALLOWED on the internet. It used to be you could download Roxio's PATCHES ... Read More Rating: - Will Not Load onto XPDespite many attempts and a complete reinstall of Windows XP, my XP machine refused to load Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum, rendering the progam disc and all update discs useless. Probably if you already had the program running in a 98 environment and then upgraded to XP you could keep it running with patches and updates. So take statements by resellers that they provide update discs with a grain of salt. If you cannot install the primary program, the update disc is of no use. The ... Read More |
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