Easy CD & DVD Creator 6

Worked great for me.

. I am a security tech that uses various software application during my daily work, that requires backups and storage for safekeeping. I have never seen a software package that requires such a short learning curve to operate ! It litterally took me 3 minutes to install it and another few minutes to start using the CD burning and the video editing features. The graphic interface is intuitive, and the ease of use makes it the BEST EVER ! One of my coleagues in the engineering dept. was a long time Nero user. As of last week he converted to Roxios easy CD creator, wondering what took him so long to wake up and smell the coffee... Thank you Roxio for this wonderful application that will make my life so much easier ! Keep up the good job ! HK

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.

In May I purchased a MiniDV Camcorder and wanted to make DVDs of my home movies. I purchase Easy CD & DVD Creator because it seemed to have all the features I wanted, and none of the features I didnt want. I wanted a simple video capturing utility, a simple video editing tool, and the ability to create menus on my DVDs. I am able to easily download my video from my camera (via Firewire), edit my scenes, and create a Themed Menu very easily. I recently came back from a family vacation and had over two hours of video and nearly 200 digital pictures. I used Easy CD & DVD to create a DVD that not only included my edited video, but a slide show of my pictures set to music. The quality was excellent, and I am very happy with the results.

I havent used the program too much yet, but the one dvd backup I did make worked fine. My major qualm with the program is that upon installation, it seems to have partitioned my hard drive without asking me and for no apparent reason. I now have a FAT partitioned f: drive containing some system files. I could tell the installation had problems from the start because it kept flashing the same message and rebooting my computer several times. I have a 7 month old Dell machine running Windows XP.

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

I purchased the Plextor PX-708A top of the line DVD/CD burner and the software that came with it was Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator. Well let me tell you it gave me the blue screen of POWER FAILURE Error and after that whenever I tried to shut down my computer it would just restart. I didnt realize this was causing the problem and I thought the new burner needed a better system so I built a new custom sytem getting the best montherboard ASUS has to offer P4 plus 1 Gig of memory well after reinstalling everything guess what the same problem happened thats when I started researching online and found that ROXIO sucks, they need to test the product before sending to the market. I had to reinstall Window 2000 again and the CD with Roxio will never go in my computer again. Now my computer works fine. I went out and purchases NERO 6 Ultra Edition, it works much better but you need to download the patches first. Both of these products try to offer to much other crap they need to get the software for burning down solid before adding on other crap and make sure they test it.

For DVD-Video editing/creating, I use Roxios VideoWave 7 Professional. For everything else this is great! Ive had great success with win2000; its 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 Faves- 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 arent copy protected, yet Ive 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. Its even greater now with the new mp3PRO Plug-in encoder available at Roxios website (highly recommended!). Ive 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) cant 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, its best to uninstall the whole package, restart the computer, and then reinstall only the needed features with their corresponding updates. Check Roxios 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 its worth...

This is the first time I have ever written a review. If you have roxio version 5, stick with it, the patches from the site works fine. Dont ever buy Roxio 6. I dont even have to work for Roxio company to give it good ratings. Roxio needs to fix their bugs before making their real profits. Roxio version 6 crashed all my CD DVD drives leaving just my hard drive to work on. What a pain to re-install OS and everything that you need to get you going on your computer.

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.