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Summary: best cd burner product
Review: This is the best cd burning software out there hands down.
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Summary: Nothing But a headache!!
Review: I purchased a Dell Dimensions 4300 a couple of months ago, and have had a shutdown/restart problem from the moment I opened the box. After several weeks of isolating various programs and other possible sources, we determined that it was a combination of the Norton Anti-virus and Roxio. After removing both, the problem appears to have been solved, for the moment anyways...
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Summary: Easy CD Creator 5.0 Platinum
Review: After reading previous reviews I was concerned about installing
5.0 platinum with windows XP.
It was an easy install taking 5 minutes and the program is working great. I did not install take 2 as advise by Roxio and I don't need the CD copy program because you can copy CD's with easy CD creator or Soundstream.
The secret for an easy install is . . . 1 - 2- 3
Download the two patches from Roxio.
1. Install the software-5.0- restart computer
2.Install XP up exe. restart
3. Install 5.02v upgrade and restart.
Thats it and the normalizer is great and the photo slideshow is spectactular with a different look
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Summary: Don't even bother
Review: When we had to upgrade our computer to Windows xp, I wasn't exactly thrilled to have a new burner program installed as well. (I believe it is called Riox) It just seems to be a waste of time, in order to create mixed cd's you have to go through the process of downloading and then saving and then converting the files. I never had to do this before with my old version. I also find this program not be user friendly at all. I don't recommend it.
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Summary: Stay Away
Review: It only cost me [money] plus the time I spent installing and uninstalling and then attempting to keep my 2 day old laptop from crashing and then losing everything on my hard drive to burn 2 coasters. Even if you have already bought this and opened it, do not install it if you have Windows XP. You will be much happier being ... poorer with a working computer than you would be being ... poorer and having to spend hours on the phone with tech support only to lose everything on your hard drive anyway...
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Summary: Lost a Week from this software
Review: I had Easy Creator 4.0 bundled with the Phillips CD-RW external USB I bought in Jan 2002 to backup my Compaq Presario notebook data files and the JPEG files on the notebook from my new digital camera. The CD-RW worked great with 4.0, no problems at all, but I wanted to burn CDs with a slideshow program so I could give CDs to friends and family with pics and an autorun slideshow program, so I bought Easy Creator 5.0 Platinum. The box said it ran on Windows 98, which was on my notebook, so I uninstalled 4.0 and installed 5.0.Oh the horror! It started changing the Windows registry which I never noticed any other software doing, then hung up, so I rebooted and got the blue screen of death everytime I tried to access the CD drive. Without the CD drive the notebook is useless. I couldn't even reinstall 4.0. A computer shop fixed the CD drive but I lost all my custom settings and the CD-RW wouldn't work after reinstalling 4.0. So I had to call Compaq, paid $35 for the latest 2-disc Emergency Recovery disk, and basically reformatted my notebook back to factory settings and reinstalled everything. Thank goodness I burned all my data files to CDs before this happened. And to think I was deciding between FlipAlbum 4.0 Suite which does the same thing except with more fancy slide shows, but got this P-O-S Roxio software and then had to pay more for repairs and then more for the recovery CDs and lost my notebook for a week.
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Summary: Awsome product!
Review: When installed correctly and updated version patches used( you may not need version updates, usually for newer cdrw-roms)this is a solid user friendly piece of burning software! "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."
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Summary: I wish I could give this ZERO stars
Review: I wish I could pay another...and get back the time i've wasted on this garbage. Ever since installing Easy CD Creator, my XP machine has been plagued with random crashes and errors. After trying unsuccessfully to burn a CD, the first thing I did was install the WinXP patches on the Roxio site. Big mistake! After patching, my machine would crash before it even finished booting. It took me almost an hour holding for tech support, an emailed file, and booting off the XP cd in "recovery mode" to get my machine back to a working state. Its a shame that this software's quality is so terrible, because the user interface is actually quite decent. From what I understand, Easy CD Creator works quite well under Win98- but don't try using it with Win2k or XP unless you are a glutton for punishment.
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Summary: Do a full backup before installing...
Review: and have a second computer available to use while you sort out all of the installation BS with this product. It was actually working well, until I put a Zip disk into my zip drive - then a blue screen reboot and nothing but trouble.
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Summary: Easy CD Creator plus Windows XP equals DISASTER
Review: Adaptec's earlier software worked fine until I upgraded to XP Professional. As required, for XP, I bought Easy CD Creator 5.0 Platinum. What a disaster! Ruined CD's, locked up programs, caused the normally stable XP to crash. I'm suspecting it caused some other strange phenomena as well. If you have XP, do NOT buy Easy CD Creator.
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