Easy CD & DVD Creator 6

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.

I lost my entire Windows XP installation because upon reboot after installing this I could not get past the Welcome screen. I followed all the instructions posted at the Roxio website, and none of them fixed the problem. Luckly, I was able to remove the laptop hard drive and mount it in another PC running XP and get the data off it, but I never did get it to boot until I reinstalled. (The Windows XP Repair process couldnt even reboot the machine at the proper point and continue...) My suggestion is to find another product, NOT one by Roxio. EZ-CD Creator 4 was an excellent product... 5 and 6 have been nothing but problems from almost everyone I have heard install them. (System instabilities, etc) You have been warned.

After mucho Hype I made a terrible assumption that spending big bucks on a recording suite that it would include most features as other similiar products but I made a huge mistake. I honestly cant believe that the folks at Roxio actually use this product because if they did they would have noticed the massive holes in standard features that it is lacking. I wanted an MP3 solution mainly, with an option to get a DVD burner later but I have many complaints. * It will not allow you to use your own MP3 naming format. You can only use the 3 presets, so it is necessary to go back after every rip & rename every track to what it should be. Totally ignoring what a customer wants to do- you must do it Roxios way or do it yourself. * Standard features like normalization are simply left out. If you have cds at a different volume level- too bad, buy another product to do what this one should do. * Simple items are made cumbersom such as CDDB- which finds the names but you must refresh everytime you accept what the CDDB finds or your tracks will get named Track1 & so on. This is just extra keystrokes for what should already have been done.... again making it cumbersom. * Comes with a 350 page book telling you everything except what you want to do or know. Want to find out how to burn an ISO? No table of contents to just search ISO. You must wait on pages & pages of worthless timeconsuming Manuals via PDF. This is really the unforgivable part. * Things like DVD builder are amazingly enept. One example is that there are 2 options to save- Save & Save as. Both do the same thing. Save as doesnt allow you to save as anything or to anyplace- Name? OK saved just like the option for Save. This is a total lack of testing & product development & lack of concern for customer satisfaction. Now I did give it 1 extra star due to the baseline of support does pick up my dvd/cd recorders. Many that I have tried in the past dont do that... But I guess I will have to throw this in as a wash of my cash & try to find a product that works. Thanks for nothing Roxio.

I foolishly bought the upgrade for Roxio. Ive used Roxio for several months and it is just a collection of programs that do not fit well together. I finally switched to Nero. It is the only way to go.

If you are fortunate enough to get one of the earlier releases of 6.0 you will be OK as long as you do not upgrade via the web once you register. Most of the copies out there now do include the newer engine. If you upgrade to 6.x via the web you can kiss DVD burning goodbye. They are planning a release of the newer engine that will fix the bug that they have stated could not be replicated in their labs. However, look at their own site forums and on the web. Its a wide spread issue. The fix is supposed to be out in late November. I would wait until it is out and tested first. It does burn DVDs but it further compresses the image to about 50% of what it should be. The end result is a 4.7 gig burn that renders to about 2 gigs. Its almost unrecognizable when you play it. Pixilation so bad that is resembles a mosaic pattern. Another problem is the software keeps attempting to finalize CD-R disks. After the initial finalization using the drag and drop icons it will finalize the CD-R again. Throw that one away too. Finally, I burned a 1-hour DVD. It took 27 hours to render with the new engine on a 2.6 GHz with 1 gig of RAM and a 110 Gig swap drive. Your call on buying this! One thing I liked... The nice box it came in...

Roxio released this version before it was ready! The package is rich in advertised features, and supposedly XP compatable. My experience was less than good, to be polite. Roxio abandoned the reliable OEM v4 Easy CD Creator that came with my PIII Dell Dimension. When I upgraded the operating system from WinMe to WinXP Home, I invested $ (no upgrade breaks for current users) with Easy CD Creator v6. Well, I soon discovered that the software seems to have a known incompatability with the NEC CD-RW that comes with most Dells of the era (and many others?) After many crashes, calls to Dell and Roxio (more on that below) I checked into the discussion boards. The Roxio discussion boards are full of howling customers with serious problems. I urge potential buyers to check them out BEFORE YOU BUY. After pulling my hair out (what little is left of it) I called Roxio, which does not have a toll-free support line, and was placed on hold for over 2 hours before I had to abandon the call. The software now costs another $+ in toll charges. The poor moderator of the discussion boards admitted the fix was in the works, but no idea when it might come. Problems: The Photosuite function made my system crash. The CD copier made my system crash. The drag-to-disk was inoperable. The CD labeler prints a hideous ROXIO label in an overwhelmingly big font. I removed the program and got the final insult. All in all, a very expensive lesson. Only saving grace is there is now some rebates posted that will offset the loss. For what it is worth, this is my experience. Don

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.

Very nice, I love it. There is so much stuff in there. I already burned some VCD slideshows, made some DVD movies. I like the AudioCentral also, very nice, it helps to organize the audio files. Pretty much I can do there anything that I need to do with my audio. I use the Creator Classic a lot to ( very nice up grade from Creator 5). And there are so much other stuff in there. Looove it.

Seamless, fantastic, and stable. A solid addition to the computer. A bit more professional then the last version, Version 6 is flawless with Windows XP (SP1 needs to be installed) The drag feature is not only new but excellent. I would recommend this to any burner out there. make sure you read the requirements, and go to town!

I have sticked to Easy Cd from my early beginning recording CDs, more than 3 years ago, and believe me: I have tried many programs. My first version was 4.0 and it performed excellent. Never had a problem and everything worked perfectly well. It was Easy to use (the name said it all in this case) Then I tried version 5.0 and it brought many more features but also other complications. Everytime I wanted to record a CD a, heavy to load and memory consumption, menu opened and my computer slowered and sluggished its performance. I know you should not be doing anything else while recording a CD so all other applications were not running, except for my antivirus, so I could not figure out why my PC remained so slow after the CD had been recorded! I switched to Nero, which has more features and it is as powerful (or perhaps more) than Easy Cd. Nero is also easy to use (its wizard is really simple to follow) so it became my favorite. When I saw that a new version of Easy CD had appeared I came back hoping to find a good product. But instead I found a very similar program to its previous version for CD users (if you own a DVD recorder, not my case, you will enjoy it more, I think). But worst, it made my PC even slower!!! I have a P IV 1.5 Ghz with 256 Mb Ram so I do not have a totally out of date one... My advise: Cd users stick to your actual program and avoid it until Roxio fixes it.