Easy CD & DVD Creator 6

I got Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 bundled with a DVD+/-RW drive. Needless to say, I was eager to get burning. Ive used Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 for 1.5 years and have been very happy. But, thats neither here nor there. Ill cut to the chase. After installing, I found that all of my hard drives and partitions had been assigned new drive letters, seemingly at random. Furthermore, in Disk Management, most partitions didnt show a letter and those that did show a letter, appeared twice in Windows Explorer. Windows was notifying me that System Volume Information racking.log was corrupt and that I needed to run chkdsk. To make matters worse, Windows no longer identified my system boot drive with the (System) designation, meaning I could delete the partition if I wanted! Uninstalling did not resolve this, so I backed up all my data to an external disk. I then performed a fresh install of Windows XP. I then installed Service Pack 1 and all critical updates. I also installed DirectX 9.0b and Windows Media Player 9. After that, I installed Office XP, followed by Easy CD & DVD Creator 6. I rebooted, and found the exact same problem. Clearly there is some serious problem with this software. Im going back to version 5. For kicks, since I knew Id need to reinstall XP again, I tried to delete the system partition. It let me. A bug this serious shouldve been caught before beta testing.

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I am very much into burning CDs and now DVDs with the help of Easy CD Creator 6. I have used many other burning software and have nothing but problems. Installing Nero 5 made me lose my drives and I was stuck in Tech Support hell......p. I also tried making VCD and DVD movies with Sonic My DVD and it was a very frustrating experience. With Creator 6 I was able to capture my video easily, add the content to the DVD Builder layout and I created a DVD with menus that played perfectly the first time I tried. I am telling you and hope you believe me when I say, this is the easiest CD and DVD burning application available hands down. I also forgot to mention the MGI photo application that is now owned by Roxio is also bundled as well. The biggest improvement over Creator 4 and 5 is the Audio application Audio Central which lets you rip MP3s and edit the MP3 file and ID Tags which contain all the information of the file. It compares to the audio features of Microsofts media player. I strongly recommend this suite of burning products to anyone that has a digital camera, video camera, dvd player, or wants to backup or create audio CDs. This application does it all.

Id like to congratulate Roxio and the Easy CD & DVD Creator 6.0....For being the one and only software app that crashed my system running Windows XP!....And Ive been running XP for over 2 years! Even after 2 updates from their website, and a COMPLETE driver overhaul, I still had to reach for the reset button. Stick to Nero 5.5 or better yet, if youre just burning audio CDs, get Feurio! (also from Ahead software) Its the best and less than half the cost.

Crashed a lot and isnt compatible with newer hardware or operating systems. I ended up buying Nero and giving this away.

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 is a great product and worth your money. Though it has a few problems. 1. In Audio Central-it makes to many duplicates of audio when changing the kbps or when retriving it from other media software. You can delete it, but it takes forever. 2. Make sure you send in [any] rebate immediatly... 3. DVD Creator needs more features but still is 5 stars for ease of use. Overall, i recommend this product for household media-not steven spielberg films...

I purchased the Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum Edition in November 2004, after Microsofts SP2 for Windows XP made my Basic 5 version unusable. Ive 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. Ill be looking into Nero or Sonic, which Ive heard positive comments from live users. Amazon.com, on the other hand, is one customer-oriented company!

Outstanding. All purchases have satisfied me completely. I have recommended your company to all of my friends and will continue to do so.

All Roxio products Ive used on several different operating systems have always had one problem or another. I found their support staff to be worthless and returned my last Roxio Product vowing to never buy anything they made again. I know others rave about Roxio but I think as with all products there is always a certain percentage of dedicated enthusiasts that will support the product regardless of problems. System lock-ups might be expected on slower cpus with little memory but Ive had some powerhouses freeze up with Roxio.