Easy CD & DVD Creator 6

This release is excellent in terms of features but the programme swallows system resources. I run a P4 2.4Ghz with 768Mb of RDRAM and 7,200 rpm disks but this release still noticeably decreased the performance of my PC due to the high number of tasks it laods. My system shutdown time increased from 10 seconds to 4 minutes (reported to Roxio). Stick with Version 5 until Roxio works out some of the issues.

Being an engineer, I can only believe that software engineers must run Roxio. The product is always being upgraded which means, where I work, fixed for a poor early release, and or the engineers want to keep playing with it. I should have known when I saw the 1 inch thick Manual that came with Creator Platinum, that I was in for a long difficult ride! If you have patience and a masters in I.T. you probably will enjoy being Roxios Beta site and using the product. If not you will be totally frustrated. I have gotten it to work fairly well, but always come to a dead end that cant be answered in the manual. Trying to get assistance is virtually impossible. You can e mail the tech folks, but be ready for days of unanswered questions, then back and forth for weeks, when all that was needed was a short phone call. Oh yes, you can get phone assistance but youll spend a lot ...more then the software costs. For my money its easier to use Nero. Oh yes, if you only have a dial up connection, youll spend many hours on line trying to download updates that might not solve anything. I expect that version 7 isnt much different. Good luck.

If you own Easy Creator 5, I cant think of any good reason to purchase this product. The only thing it does well is burn data and files to CDs, and EC-5 does that equally well. The Photosuite section is one of the most exasperating pieces of software Ive ever tried to use - and it deletes EC-5s ability to archive pictures along with a self-running exe player that provides both shortage and self-running slide show capabilities (with music) on one CD. If you need a photo album and picture editor program, first look at what came with your digital camera, possibly augmented by one of the cheaper Adobe editing products, or purchase Jasc After Shot or its latest incarnation. If you need DVD/Video capture or editing software, buy Sonics MYDVD Video Suite - Its significantly simpler and more flexible to use, and produces DVDs with better playing characteristics. The Audio capture/playing/editing features seem only different, not better than EC-5, and maybe not as good. The Drag-to Disk feature is back - but Ive never found that feature to be worth the effort to use it, with any CD/DVD burning program. And lastly, the basic operation of the program seems even more quirky than EC-5, and counter-intuitive to every other piece of software you likely own. Bottom line, I installed it, tried it, deleted it, and reinstalled the elements of EC-5 I use. Was a total waste of $...

I have been using PCs since 1982. I have purchased many commercially developed software programs. Roxio and Easy CD Ver 6 wins first place as the worst program I have ever purchased. Technical support is a joke to say the least. I will NEVER buy anything from Roxio or any successors. I purchased this version in Sept. 2003 and have lost count as to the number of times I have installed and uninstalled this software. I tried calling the tech. support number and the area code had changed. They have no phone number that you can call without a credit crd number being used. There is no mailing address, save their legal department. I just wish I had been happy with version 5 which came installed on my new computer. The web site support is very lacking in assistance. Caveat Emptor is the best expression for Roxio Products. Find an alternate product that does the same job. The reason for one star is that is the least you can use, on this site.

I have used Roxio CD creator 5 for the past year and was very pleased with it. When my husband and I decided to reload our OS I figured wed try the next step up. What a mistake! Version 6 takes forever to install, caused my pc to take forever to perform restarts, and wont even open. After uninstalling and reinstalling I still had the same problem. I plan on demanding my money back from Roxio and sticking to good old version 5. I definitely do not recommend this product. I only wish I had read the reviews here at Amazon and on Roxios own website before wasting my time on this software.

This is up there with the legendary WinFax V9 as one of the worst software products ever made. The main problem: this horrible product corrupts at the drop of a hat. You will find yourself uninstalling and re-installing this software - a long and tedious process - every single time you want to burn one CD. RUN as fast as can from this product. Id rather hand transcribe data - and go back to making music cassettes - than use this irritating mess.

I am a systems analyst with 20 years of experience, I would never have released a product as full of bugs as this one. The concept is fantastic! However, the product will not preform as advertised. When trying to put together a 15 minute slide presentation with audio sound you will experience not being able to adjust the sound to the photos in a cohesive manner. The music (sound) will always be too long or two short. While working on the project you will experience the screen going blank while the music continues to play, this makes it 100% labor intensive to try to finish a project because you will spend all of your time starting over. When using random transitions you will never know how long each one will take. The majority of the time the transition is 2 seconds, however sometimes it is longer. Once-in-a-while the random transitions will disappear half way through the project. Forget about technical support. I have made several phone calls and when trying what the technician suggests I find that it doesnt work. For example, they suggested using the remote control(part of the program) to view the project. They indicated that I would be able to fast forward and that the photos and music would stay together making it easier to hear and see what song was playing with what picture without going through the entire slide show again. I will never know because there isnt any way to stop the fast forward action. Once you start the fast forward it goes all the way to the end. Oh, by the way, did I mention that Roxio wants to charge you [money amount] for a technical service call. Its pretty bad when you pay [money amount]for a product that barely works and then have to pay to find out that the technical support isnt helpful. When I asked the technical service person (Liz - in Toronto)if any of the things she was telling me were in the user manual she replied I dont know, Ive never read it. Other little annoyances like the up and down slide on the side tab freezes and you can only move up, which prevents you from seeing anything at the end of your project. Eventually it comes back but in the meanwhile its a pain. Several people really liked the one short dvd I was able to create and wanted to know about the product. When I told them it took me a week to make a 15 minute dvd they quickly changed their mind and told me to let them know when the prodcut is perfected. Too bad for Roxio - they had a good idea that could have sold very well.

The appeal of this product was the addition of DVD mastering to its broad stable of capabilities. I purchased a DVD burner in late 2001 and have had a hard time finding a reliable, flexible, reasonably-priced DVD authoring solution. Roxio has come up with the best low-end solution Ive seen. First of all, it has no issues with my DVD-R/RW. burner, which already puts it a cut above the 3 other products I tried (OEM stuff that was included with the burner). The interface for the layout software may be just a bit too simple, though: it provides for an intro video clip (which plays as soon as your DVD is inserted in the player) and what appears to be an endless cascade of menus and sub-menus. The program provides a couple dozen menu themes, but there doesnt appear to be any way to create use a custom theme, and the provided themes seem to be based around a familiar chapter-style interface--more traditional menu navigation (ie, Play Movie/Set-Up/Special Features) doesnt seem to be an option. Basically, the DVD-builder is created to get your video to DVD with a minimum of difficulty, and a lot of flexibility is sacrificed to that end. Fortunately, the program seems to be able to handle just about anything you throw at it where content is concerned: I mixed MPEG files with raw DV footage, including a variety of resolutions ranging from 160 x 120 to 752 x 480, and the program just workhorsed its way through the job at the click of a button. Not spectacular, but workable, and a great way to distribute your reels to prospective clients. Ive played a bit with the audio side of things, too, recording a few old LPs to CD, using the DeClick filter to remove pops, crackles, and ticks, and the program works very well for that. The DeClick filter isnt quite as effective as Id like, but it does take out a good bit of the surface noise. Once the LP is recorded, breaking it into CD tracks is a trivial activity that can generally be done without manual intervention. One thing thats inexcusable in the audio program, though, is the lack of an undo function (if its there, I cant find it). Also, it seems that once a track is marked, theres no simple way to unmark it. Its not hard to work around these small limitations, but they really shouldnt be there in the first place. One thing I dont like about the whole package is the all-or-nothing aspect of it: it wants to put itself everywhere on your machine...in the Start menu, in the clock tray, on the desktop...and it likes to be running in the background whenever you boot up. If you use the drag-to-disc feature, thats not a bad thing, but anything that creeps into so many corners of my system makes me a bit antsy, and the fact that the ROXIOP.exe program prevents my Win2K machine from shutting down without manual intervention doesnt give me warm fuzzies, either. Im hoping a patch is on the way. Overall, I like this program a lot after a week--its easy to use, doesnt seem to consume too many resources, and does what most people are buying it for. Could it be better? Sure. Can you get something better for the same price? Not from what Ive seen. Addenda: I discovered the drag-to-modify nature of the track markers which allows the user to easily move or delete existing tracks simply by tugging on their flags. I also discovered an unfortunate glitch where the track markers are concerned: it seems that sometimes a tiny, split-second piece of your track will inadvertently get attached to the track marker, resulting in a short burp of sound right before the actual track begins. This would be bad enough to be a show-stopper, except that its easily corrected: if you have a burping track marker, delete it and create a brand new track marker (with no associated burp) in exactly the same spot. This has cleared up the problem for me every time Ive tried it.

I purchased Roxio 6 platinum edition about 1 year ago and it worked fine (well at least initially). But for the last 2-3 months I started having problem with my CD-RW/DVD-RW burner(This drive came installed on my Dell computer when I purchased it 14 months ago along with Roxio basic edition 5). Once a CD-R/RW is inserted into the drive Roxio 6 alerts you that this disc in not prepared and formatted, so you can not use it.Therefore you have to format it using the Format Disc option, a process wich takes 25-45 minutes. Only thenafter is the disc ready to use (i.e. saving files on it) just as a floppy disc(i.e. you cane erase a single or multiple file(s) witout the need to erase the whole disc completely).As I mentioned all the features(e.g saving ,CD burning,music or data disc creating ,label creating ...etc)supported by roxio platinum 6 worked fine for the first several months. (note:I have not used it with DVD discs). Then the problems started. 1.Blank new CDs can not be formated any more. That means that the blank CDs can not be used for saving and burning since they require preparation and formatting. So my CD/DVD burner now is turned into a CD/DVD Rom drive. 2.The CD-RW disc that I successfully formated with the same software can now no more be used as formmated CD-RW (i.e a single file can not be removed unless the entire disc is erased) 3.The shortcut icon on the desktop sometimes does not respond to the mouse click as it used to several months ago. So I have to reboot my PC. 4.When I try to use other CD-R/RW which, on which I saved files using my old sony PC, Roxio patinum 6 recognized the disc and opened the files. BUT I could not save(add) new files because I got the message the disc is not formated. Formating it will erase all of the previously saved data in addition it ,formating,won`t be successfull.That what happened to me when I lost important data saved on disc but the disc itself could not be formated. Those problems left me with crappy software and CD/DVD burner. I used several CD brand Memorex,Sony, Staples,ofiice-depot but all ended with the same annoying and disappointing results. If you are willing to take a riks buy it. It might keep working fine with your PC and CD or CD/DVD burner for more than the initial few months Thanks

Roxios Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 is a huge improvement from Easy CD Creator 5. It has a smooth interface for editing video and burning to DVD. The CD burning of music and data is excellent. The price after rebates is very low, so nows the time to buy.