Amazon.co.uk Review
Whether you're an audio CD burn-aholic or simply perform the occasional hard drive back-up,
Easy CD Creator 5 offers excellent options for getting the job done. This powerful program delivers an exhaustive collection of data transfer and formatting options behind a super-slick interface.
Pick just about any file format and this program provides an innovative way of storing it on CD. Burning an audio CD is a piece of cake for this tool, as is creating a video CD and picture slide shows, transferring audio from a cassette or phonograph to CD, and archiving a hard drive. A nifty CD label creator helps organise your archive as well.
As expected, audio CD-burning options are comprehensive. In addition to CDA-formatted audio, playable in most CD players, a great feature converts MP3 tracks into CD audio (and vice versa) and pumps up the audio quality of MP3 files lost during compression before transferring the batch of tracks to disk. A sound transition control allows you to fade songs out or in, add a gap between tracks or cross-fade songs.
Easy CD Creator 5.0 is much more than an audio CD burner. A photo-sharing tool frames pictures into a self-running slide show presentations that can be backed with music. Videophiles will enjoy the video CD capabilities. You can add any Quicktime, AVI or series of still images to the layout interface, configure the layout, then burn the CD as an MPEG-1, viewable in compatible DVD players.
CD burning is a CPU-taxing endeavour that'll spit out flawed disks if the hardware isn't up to the task. Easy CD Creator 5.0 requires a 200 MHz CPU or faster and the recommended 64 MB RAM should be doubled to avoid those annoying buffer overrun error messages. But if your system is up to par, Easy CD Creator 5.0 should churn out CD after CD of beautifully formatted disks. --Eric Twelker
Manufacturer's Description
Upgrade to Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum and go way beyond the software that came with your CD recorder. Now you can burn and share anything on CD - your music just the way you like it, your photos, your videos - even backup your critical data - faster and easier than ever. Record from CDs, LPs, MP3s and more and create your own high-quality music CDs.Make collections of your photos and create powerful slide shows and video presentations to share with family or for business. Keep your important data secure by storing it on CD. The sleek new interface makes simple work of the most creative task. Open up a new world of CD recording with an upgrade to Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum and realize the full potential of your CD-R.