Magix MP3 Maker

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Summary: Good stuff for the moeny
Review: I actually liked the MP3 Maker because it does a lot for the money. Ya get 2 encoder (one is limited to 20 encodings wot sux) but there is still another encoder for free. Ya can rip CD's and burn them direct to CD. Comes wif 2 players to mix MP3's. Bad part: needed patch to actually translate the program into english. Good part: Lot's of features for the money

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Summary: What a waste of my money and time!
Review: I could not believe the nerve of this company to market this piece of ripoff as ligimate software. After the real estate hogging installation, I was presented with a very impressive but confusing interface that attempted to be trendy and hi-tec. Instead of the friendly and comforting Windows interface (hey, at least give us the three familiar three little buttons on the upper right hand corner to minimize and close!?) I have to 'discover' the close button at the lower right hand corner of this blue-on-blue interface.

What finally got me to uninstall the program faster than trying to get rid of the plague was the fact that no where did it mention that I could only rip TWENTY songs before I have to shell out another $19 bucks for what they called an upgrade!!! Yea, UPGRADE. I call that as a very underhanded, very sly and unethical way of getting more of our hard-earned money just so we could use the software. No thank you! No where on the outside of the box mentioned the 20 song encoding limit... in fact, in it's description, it mentioned the word UNLIMITED conversion of music!

It wouldn't even earn the honor of being shelved with the rest of my software library. The circular file it went.

There are a lot more shareware and freeware out there that would do a very decent job without trying to pull a fast one on us. Look elsewhere and pass this one by! Don't even bother with their diamond, gold and platinum or whatever editions if that is their business ethic.

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Summary: Complete waste of money
Review: I installed this program and it just sat there on my screen like a Windows .BMP file. Clicking on any of the controls did nothing, and it locked up my PC! I deleted the program and reinstalled it again. Same result. I contacted the manufacturer, but they were no help at all (left message, sent email, no response). I finally returned the software to Office Depot where I bought it. They gave me a hard time, because the shrinkwrap was gone, but after they tried installing it themselves, they agreed that the CD was best suited for a coaster and refunded my money. Would have rated it zero stars if Amazon let me.

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Summary: Complete waste of money
Review: Is there a "zero star" rating? Clearly not worth the money. MP3 Maker comes with two compression algorithms. One compresses into mp3 format faster than the other. The catch is you have to pay Magix an extra $9.95usd to be able to use it. Aside from the fact that this application is a resource hog, getting assistance from Magix with any problems is less likely than winning the PowerBall lottery. After many ill-fated attempts to correct flaky problems I have found some freeware/shareware packages that work great. Magix support is non-existent. One can spend the money on a toll-call to leave a message or send an e-mail. Either way, you will never get an answered back from Magix. Bottom line, don't waste your money on this product.

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Summary: Magix MP3 Player
Review: Is there a "zero star" rating? Clearly not worth the money. MP3 Maker comes with two compression algorithms. One compresses into mp3 format faster than the other. The catch is you have to pay Magix an extra $9.95usd to be able to use it. Aside from the fact that this application is a resource hog, getting assistance from Magix with any problems is less likely than winning the PowerBall lottery. After many ill-fated attempts to correct flaky problems I have found some freeware/shareware packages that work great. Magix support is non-existent. One can spend the money on a toll-call to leave a message or send an e-mail. Either way, you will never get an answered back from Magix. Bottom line, don't waste your money on this product.

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Summary: I can't believe my eyes (ears..)
Review: When I first use this software, I thought it was just another MP3 encoder with a pretty skin. Then the next day I found out that I can burn a CD directly from this program. A friend of mine tried out this program as well and he told me that this program includes a professional audio editing feature that normally would cost a lot of money. I personally don't mess around with audio editing but I may one day convert and digitize all my old tapes (which I proudly owned)to MP3 files.

Also I must say that Magix's service is pretty good. I have no problem speaking with a support staff and questions were patiently answered. I asked them about the cross file conversion function and it was explained to me in simple term. I found out that Magix has a dozen other products mostly music and streaming media related. It is good to know that you can later upgrade to something else. Overall, it is well worth the $29 I spent.