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| Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Roxio
Category: Software
List Price: $49.99
Buy Used: $38.89
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Avg. Customer Rating:  198 reviews
Sales Rank: 3280
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Color: Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum Edition
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8.1 x 2.7
MPN: 207000
Model: 207000
UPC: 815227001774
EAN: 0815227001774
ASIN: B0000899WB
Release Date: February 17, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Customer sastifaction is our priority, we ship daily. Cd in box with instructions
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Product Description
Get the all-in-one music, photo, data and video tool! You'll be able to capture photos and video, create DVD movies or photo slide shows, organize your music library, fix photos or save important documents on CD or DVD!
Amazon.com
The arguable king of CD burning is back, and it's got a bag of new tricks. Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum Edition takes you by the hand and leads you through all kinds of CD and DVD creation, from data backups and music compilations to photo slide shows and feature films. User friendly to the last, it comes with a massive manual weighing in at almost 400 pages. Unfortunately, however, beneath the shiny surface of this program hide a few snags. Burning data and music compilation CDs is simple enough with a "drag to CD" function--you can literally drag files from Windows Explorer onto an icon that resizes in the lower right corner of the desktop. More complex burning and copying can be done through wizards or manually. For DVD authoring, Roxio includes support for every DVD burning format out there. It allows you to create movies, photo slide shows and more. It interfaces directly with digital video recorders to capture footage to the PC's hard drive, from where you can then burn them to a DVD. You can rearrange parts of a movie, trim clips, add sound, and more. The interface is functional at best, though, and casual film directors will pine for a simpler, more graceful solution than this program can offer. The PhotoSuite applet's interface is overly friendly and not nearly powerful enough. Adding photos from a networked PC was a painstakingly slow process. Worse, once we'd picked out a few dozen photos, we went to create a VCD slide show and were met with an error message that even baffled Roxio tech support. Another caveat: Easy CD automatically checks for product updates, but it forces you to register the product in order to download them. This invasion of privacy aside, Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 does provide some easy and user friendly features at the cost of clunky interfaces and limited options for power users.--Joel Durham
Amazon.com Product Description
Offering the most powerful set of integrated digital media tools available, Roxio's Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum gives you the creative control to capture photos and video, create DVD movies or photo slide shows, organize your music library, and fix photos or save important documents on CD or DVD. Play, rip, edit, manage, and burn your entire digital music collection with the integrated player, media manager, and sound editor. Capture and combine video and photos with a favorite music track, add transitions and animated DVD menus, and burn to DVD, VCD, or SVCD to play on your home DVD player. Edit, organize, and share your digital photos with convenient drag-and-drop files that let you easily transfer your digital memories to CD or DVD--disc formatting and burning happen automatically. Back up, share, or archive your important files to CD or DVD, or large projects to multiple discs. Easily access and retrieve files or projects back to the original or new location with the sleek, user-friendly interface. Make personalized CD labels, jewel case inserts, and DVD case covers, choosing from dozens of professional designs for all occasions. Comprehensive, fully integrated, and easy to use, Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum gives you everything you need to manage your digital lifestyle.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 193 more reviews...
 Crashed a lot and isn't compatible with newer hardware or operating systems. January 7, 2008
Crashed a lot and isn't compatible with newer hardware or operating systems. I ended up buying Nero and giving this away.
Software nightmare September 17, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is probably the most user-unfriendly software I've ever bought when it comes to creating music CDs. Everytime I needed to burn a music CD I had to go to the tutorial for the various steps. Version 5 was great compared to 6. The only problems with 5 is that it can't be used with Windows XP and you have to download a patch to fix the problems with it.
I had no problem like others with installing 6. However some months after I did install it I started having problems with the "drag and drop" software. This is software that can be used to "drag and drop" any file (music or non-music) to burn a CD. It turned out to be a nightmare. CDs were not able to be finalized. When you install the drag and drop software it simply takes over for the CD burning method of Windows XP (which is far, far superior). I uninstalled the software and simply did a custom install by just installing the photosuite (the only useful thing in Creator 6).
Want marginal customer support? Buy any Roxio product! February 24, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I purchased the Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum Edition in November 2004, after Microsoft's SP2 for Windows XP made my Basic 5 version unusable. I've been exchanging emails with Roxio Technical Support ever since. I can burn a data CD only to a CDR (for some reason ECDC 6 does not recognize my CDRWs). I cannot copy a CD using the Disc Copier function. For some reason the ECDC 6 recognizes my burner only through the Creator Classic function.
What is wrong with companies these days? They grab the money and run. Never mind whether the customer gets the functionality they are paying for.
I'll be looking into Nero or Sonic, which I've heard positive comments from live users.
Amazon.com, on the other hand, is one customer-oriented company!
You buy this and loose customer support November 26, 2004
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Do you know if u ever need to get support, or to download a patch for your paid Roxio software, registration IS required from their website?! Yes everytime you need an software update/patch, you need to login with password. Registration needs an valid email address and your ROXIO software key. Thanks to this COMPULSORY registration I need to keep record for one more login/password combination. And Pray that you don't loose your cd key.
BTW if your cdburner came with a bundle Roxio Easy creator, forget any update / support from roxio since you dont get a cd key. Somehow this is one evil way ROXIO try to get your business. if one day you upgrade your operating system and need to update for the bundle roxio software, you have to BUY the retail version Easy Creator.
 Great with Windows 2000/XP; at least partially(!)... November 25, 2004
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
For DVD-Video editing/creating, I use Roxio's VideoWave 7 Professional. For everything else this is great! I've had great success with win2000; it's designed for XP/ME/98 as well. 2000/XP users w/NTFS partitions will be best off; ANY user w/FAT32 partitions will likely experience some craziness! I use Norton Ghost for backup/imaging: so even if my computer spontaneously combusts(!), I can rebuild it pretty quickly. My Fave's- attractive interface, excellent html help, Creator Classic with Disc Copier, AudioCentral, Label Creator, and Drag-to-Disc: these are amazing! With *just these* components & a DVD+/-RW drive, this software *should* actually be pretty stable- it works great on my system! (AthlonXP 3000+; 512MB memory.) Disc Copier copies CDs/DVDs that aren't copy protected, yet I've copied a few store-bought items: a music CD; a cheap PC game CD; an instructional DVD(!); a foreign NTSC DVD(wow!). Creator Classic makes all kinds of discs- Data, Music, MP3, Enhanced, Mixed-Mode, Bootable & more! AudioCentral effectively rips, burns, converts & manages MP3s, WMAs, WAVs & OGGs. It's even greater now with the new mp3PRO Plug-in encoder available at Roxio's website (highly recommended!). I've converted audio tapes, with my analog-in sound card, into high-quality MP3 CDs with professional looking labels! Drag-to-Disc is especially important to me because win2000 (my favorite OS) can't write to CDs/DVDs without extra software help. This is a tremendously versatile package! For most of my CD/DVD needs, this product is all I need! Official Caveat Time- *PLEASE BACKUP YOUR COMPUTER BEFORE INSTALLATION!* Glitches, bugs, hangs & crashes can be experienced all throughout this product. Make sure Windows is up-to-date with all recent service packs & patches. If you install the entire product to see what it can do, then decide you can do without a few features, it's best to uninstall the whole package, restart the computer, and then reinstall only the needed features with their corresponding updates. Check Roxio's support page for common issues/problems to evaluate risk! (Especially win98/ME users!)
*UPDATE 2006*: At one point, for whatever reason, my roxio software stopped detecting my drives altogether. I heard someone say: If EZCD6 ever says "no drive detected", google search EEZ000005 to find a helpful link & potential fix from Roxio. I did this, and the fix was a small software download called DriveFixEZ_Installed.exe. I ran this and it worked! All my drives were detected again. Still though: Roxio makes it exceedingly difficult at times to find help and potential fixes. They may have even removed that help page I just mentioned(!). Otherwise, this software really *can* be great. It just occasionally seems to be more frustrating than it's worth...
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