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Summary: Nero 5.5 is Superior to Roxio, particularly for Audio copies
Review: I have tried to duplicate Audio CDs accurately on four computers (different) over three years and always ended with shallower, "digital" sounding CDs. My friends told me Nero makes perfect or as near perfect copies as possible at the 4 speed burning setting (inaccurate error correction on DAE-digital audio extraction and burners with internal clock errors are rampant see the EAC site). They were correct. Nero on my 1.9 Ghz, loaded machine using a Plextor 40/12/40 copies audio tracks and CDs (not MP3 format of course) very accurately. Only my high end audio gear allow me to distinguish the difference, sometimes not at all. The Plextor and Nero work perfectly together in terms of burn-proof and Vari-Rec setting of 0 (4x burning speed helps too). I highly recommend Nero unless you want to pay for professional dupe software such as Furio ([...]) using it on a dedicated audio computer with Scuzi Plextor burners. That system will probably make consistently near perfect copies-professionals use it (Exact Audio Copy software does make perfect copies but it is very time consuming).Roxio also burns all data CDs faster by 1/3 or more over Roxio and has not produced one coaster after nearly 200 CDs (Roxio messed up about 5% or more out of nearly 700 CDs). Most people won't be able to tell the difference in Roxio or Nero CD copies in boomboxes and MP3 format-so the beginning comments are not directed towards you.
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Summary: Not quite ready for prime time
Review: I bought Nero when Adaptec's CD Creator required you pay the full price for the XP version of the program, when I already had the Windows 98 version. Also, the reviews here on Amazon were quite negative on CD Creator, which still appeard to have a lot of problems running under XP. One support person I talked to said he'd tried downloading the latest drivers from the Roxio website, who owns the program now, and they didn't work either. CD Creator works fine under Windows 98, but the problem is I use XP now and to burn a CD requires that I maintain a double- boot configuration and boot back into 98 to write a CD. This is a little inconvenient, so I was hoping to get something that would work with XP. Two support techs said they use Nero and it's worked for them, which CD Creator didn't. I bought Nero, but unfortunately it doesn't work very well, either, at least on my system, and it's a 2 1/2 year old HP Pavilion that is pretty typical, with nothing special in the way of hardware or software. I tried burning 3 CDs right off the bat, and it locked up in the middle of two of the three. The only one that worked was a much smaller credit-card CD that burned okay, and they only hold about 50 megs. The two other CD's were the larger ones and were for several hundred megs, and it never got to the end. Nero also seems much more sensitive to potential read/write problems. Both of the CD sessions that hung in the middle had a dialog box pop up just before they hung, saying that a read from the disk had encountered a problem, and did I want to continue? I said yes, and it went on, then a minute later the program hung, so it probably wasn't related to the bad read. But when I tried to burn the same information with CD Creator under Windows 98, it never complains about any read problem from the hard disk. In any case, you don't want the entire session to get screwed up because of one bad file; it should just skip that and continue on. Also, Nero didn't say which file was affected, only that there was a problem. In that case it might as well ignore it and just continue anyway. I also haven't tried the Nero packet-writing feature, which allows you to just drag and drop files onto the CD without firing up the entire Nero program and going through the usual file selection and burn session process. Maybe that would be more successful, but I found this to have problems occasionally with CD Creator under 98 so I've never tried it. Nero's interface is simpler than CD Creator's, but I like the latter's more detailed interface and the greater amount of information displayed, and it allows you somewhat greater control over the different options. Many people might not care about this, and I wouldn't either if Nero actually worked well under XP for me, which it doesn't. So unfortuately I have to give the thumbs down to Nero although I had high hopes for it. For now I'm continuing to boot back into Windows 98 and hope that soon there will be a fix for either Nero or CD Creator that will work with XP.
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Summary: "NO TECH SUPPORT"
Review: I was looking for a program to transfer my old LPS to CDS. The program seems to be rich in features and short on execution. I was able to capture the music into a file using the Wave Editor program. However, when I tried to write the file to a CD the burning program could not read the file.
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Summary: Adaptec? Why?
Review: I just purchased a new 48x24x48 Lite-on Drive, that came bundled with the Nero 5.5 WOW. I've been sold on Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum for 2 years, no longer. Sure the interface with Roxio's product is better looking, but I'd rather have performance and options. The other reveiwers of this product are pretty much right on the money, not much I could add to them.
I'm ordering the Full version of Nero 5.5 for my other PC as soon as I finish this reveiw. I dont think you can go wrong on this one!
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Summary: Never got it to work
Review: I have a btc 48 12 48 cd r/w and when I ran the software it said that it doesn't support the drive, although it's on their web site list for supported drives. Their tech support is non-existant there's no phone #'s and no one answer's the e-mail. The program was not user friendly, You had to run a different program for each operation instead of having a menu to pick from. Also you can't turn cdfile(Their drag and drop program)off from the sys tray or even stop it from running unless you know how to edit the registry file. And you have to have the Nero cd to uninstall it.(it wonn't uninstall from add/remove programs)I don't usually write bad review's about products but this one didn't make a very good first impression
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Summary: Good For Me...
Review: The Nero Wizard mode helps me when I don't know what to do.
The Nero Burning Rom mode helps me burn files on a Highspeed CD-RW disk.
The Nero Express mode helps me burn other files not shown in Nero Burning rom mode.
And! The only thing I found that does not work when I bought this Nero 5.5 program. Is that the Nero Wave Editor on it,
does not work at all, when I try to open it.
I even e-mailed nero support site and no answer yet from them.
Oh well, at least the other modes work.
Oh, it also has a Nero Image Drive mode, NeroMedia Player and
make your own cd label cover.
That's all, bye now.
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Summary: Nero is the best CD & DVD burning app on the market
Review: As far as I'm concerned, Nero is the best CD & DVD burning app that I've found on the market so far. I have a SCSI CD-RW & a FireWire CD-RW and I burn to both drives simultaneously with Nero. My success rate for burning clean CDs is 99% with this software, which is better than I've encountered with any other app so far. So far, I've not had a single DVD data burn not complete with Nero doing the burning. Nero can burn MP3s directly to audio CDs without any separate conversion programs, Nero can burn custom data DVDs using a very simple wizard, Nero supports multiple CD image formats (NRG, ISO, BIN/CUE) & Nero is probably the 2nd best app for creating CD to CD backups (CloneCD taking 1st prize there). This program is well worth the money.
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Summary: A few notes
Review: This is by far the best piece of CD burning software out there. Some common negative remarks against Nero were: 1. Can't burn .mp3's
A: Not true. It's called you burn an audio CD, not a data CD. Then your stupid freebie music will work in your CD players. And if you thought it would make mp3's from audio cd's... its a burning product... 2. Confusing interface
A: If all you like is big pretty buttons, then yes, buy Roxio's product. This by far has more features and options, and the interface is simple once you TAKE the time to learn it. 3. Can't burn VCD's
A: Again, not true. Create a video cd and make sure the video files you are burning are mpeg layer 1's. If not, there are thousands of free programs that convert to that format. 4. Doesn't work
A: You didn't set it up correctly Overall this is a great product. Don't like people who don't take the time or patience with it sway you. It's the best burning product out there.
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Summary: Excellent Product but does NOT burn MP3's
Review: You can't ask for a better product then what Nero consists of. I can deal with having no MP3 encoding capabilities, but the fact that it can't make MP3's cd's really upsets me since I make a lot of them. Otherwise a great product.
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Summary: Nero Burning Rom 5.5
Review: Nero is the best burning software I have tried. I have had issues with Roxio Easy CD creater, especially with CDR-W's so I thought I would give Nero a try and was not disapointed. Unfortunately, after downloading the demo, and after I purchased a serial number for 50USD, I noticed it did not come with any help files ( .HLP). I found it quite tedious trying to find help on their website and the link to the english help files was not working!!
The only reason I am giving it 3 out of 5 stars is the poor documentation.
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