Easy CD & DVD Creator 6

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.

Having used version 5 Platinum, I was filled with joy to see the release of version 6. I probably should have saved my enthusiasm. Although I havent experienced any of the problems that Ive read about here as far as Windows XP goes, it runs flawlessly on my XP system and Im using it on a laptop. My issues are simpler. I just dont care for the way it works. Photosuite is worthless, Audio Central is ok, but you cant apply any effects (and there are several)such as the equalizer or any of the others unless you create playlists. If you want to listen to a few songs from your library, you cant apply the EQ without first creating a playlist. DUMB!!!! I still havent found an audio application that I like better than Musicmatch. I could go on, but if you dont have a real need to burn DVDs and you have version 5, stay there. I havent decided whether or not Im keeping this. Fortunately I bought it at Costco, so I have their liberal return policy on my side.

The product was good but it is very slow or sluggish to load. Also, the process times need to be faster.

I had EasyCD Cremator basic that came with a Micro-Advantage DVD Burner. I was unable to burn anything, as with a previous review the drive would alternate between recognizing the media and not, saying it was unreadable to being able to record once and then having it not be readable/writable. I made a total of 7 coasters (dvd recordables) and several Cd-rs. It would occasionaly work with my previoulsy installed CD burner. Anyway I took the drive back thinking it was bad. I bought a new Pioneer drive, same problem. I uninstalled the Cremator installed Nero 6 Ultra, everything works perfectly, both burners in my system. Dont the hardware manufacurers test their drives with the software before packaging it. EasyCD Cremator is totaly useless and is not even worth getting it for free when you buy a burner. Do yourself a favor, dont bother installing it, throw it away and get Nero or one of the Freeware/Shareware burning software (see DVDRHELP.COM). Oh, the drag to disk worked occasionally with the CD burner. I guess that is worth about 1 star.

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...

Useful, but your OS should have everything that you need these days.

When I installed it, it asked to be rebooted. When it rebooted it knocked out my computer would not reboot. I had to do a system restore but it rebooted into minimum resolution and 16 colors. Trying to change the display settings to a higher resolution and more colors was unsuccessful. Technical support for my video card could not find a solution. Reinstalling Windows did not solve the proproblem. It looks like I will have to do a clean install and reinstall over a 100 applications. When I installed Easy Creator I had no programs running in the background so that was not the problem. Easy Creator has always given me some problems. It is a tempermental program to begin with. I had hoped that Roxio would have solved these problems in the most recent version but it looks like Roxio only made the problems worse.

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.

Why, oh why didnt I read these reviews before throwing my money away on this system destroyer? Its like HIV. It screws up your system and you cant get rid of it. I wish we had the option of awarding zero stars! I had the previous edition of Easy CD Creator which worked with Windows 98. When I upgraded to Windows XP, I tried to re-install Easy CD and not only did it NOT install, telling me that I had to upgrade, it did something to my operating system so that even the built in Windows XP CD burning software no longer worked. Ive since gone through every fix I can find, including one from the Microsoft website (which is also found on the Roxio website) which involves making changes and deletions on your registry. At least it quit giving me the error messages about having to disable loaded drivers because they will make your system unstable. But it still would not burn or format CDs, even though the drive still works ok to read disks or load programs. Finally, in desperation, I bought the new Easy CD & DVD Creator 6, hoping that their new version would install itself properly and would allow me to burn CDs. I figured that they were aware of this problem and would have built in corrections to the new version. In other words, They broke it, maybe their new version would fix it! No such luck. A bunch of bucks later, and I still cant burn CDs. I spent 45 minutes downloading all of the upgrades to this program from Roxio, but when I reboot to finalize the installation, Windows refuses to load,and I have to allow it to revert to the last known good configuration. Im trying to install a different brand of CD software, but it doesnt work either, probably thanks to the Roxio infection. It looks like I may end up having to re-install XP, and go through all of the upgrades again. The only good news is that I found my receipt, and the store where I purchased it gave me a full refund.

I have used about all versions of Roxio CD-Maker even buggy Verson 5. The new drag and drop icon works great. I have tried other cd-creator software, but none as work as easy or quick as Roxie. Install was breeze. I notice if I use no-name CD-R my system will hangup with any errors. I would said it is good buy.