Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum Edition is the latest version of Roxio’s recording software. Roxio has added new attractive easy to use interfaces, tool bars, several new options, and many improved features. This integrated media package is not just for CDs anymore. You now have the added ability to create your own customized DVDs.

All the tools you need are in one package aptly dubbed

 “The Digital Media Suite”.™

 Today more and more people are using digital cameras and camcorders. Consumers are also downloading audio, video, and images from the internet.  With Roxio.’s Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 you can rip, burn, edit and manage your collections to make your own custom CDs and DVDs.

You can turn your precious home movies into your own personalized DVD collection.  Save your photos and slideshows on CDs or DVDs.

Create your own greatest hits music CDs. Edit, touch-up, and customize your music and photo files.  Archive large projects over multiple discs.

The “Creator Classic” is similar in use to previous versions of Easy CD Creator. You can still record music or data to disc with simple drag and drop.  But with the improved “Drag to Disc” feature, disc formatting and burning are done automatically and at the same time.  It gives you the ability to copy your data using multiple CDs or DVDs. With up to 30 discs per project!

Some of the other new features are:

“AudioCentral”

 You can play, rip, edit, manage, tag, and burn your entire digital music collection.  This program includes a player, media manager, tag and sound editor, label creator, and disc copier.

With “DVD Builder,” you combine video and photos with your favorite music tracks, or your own voice-overs.  You can add many special effects, animated DVD menus, and burn it all to DVD, VCD, or SVCD for playback on your home DVD player.  Even use “Real Time Recording” to quickly transfer your tape from your camcorder to disc.

“PhotoSuite” is also a new feature. Using your digital photos, you can edit, add text, organize, share them with your friends over the internet, or save to them disc.  Even create a fun photo slide show, and burn it as a Video CD.  Then play it back in your DVD player, in the comfort of your own living room. 

“Disc Copier” has been improved to make back-ups of your discs faster than before.  Also improved, is the “Label Creator.”  It is fun to add a personal touch to your CDs and be able to make your own labels, case inserts, and DVD case covers.

To help simplify “Easy CD & DVD Creator 6” includes a new Flash tutorial.  This tutorial is integrated with the improved help files on Roxio’s website.  http://www.roxio.com

Roxio’s “Easy CD & DVD Creator 6” is packed with so many features I could not possibly list them all here.  If you have important files, music, photos, videos, or anything that you would like to enhance and preserve with style, then this is a program you should try.  Create, save those memories, clean out your hard drive and have some fun doing it!

Minimum System Requirements

        Intel® Pentium 200-MHz or faster processor for audio; Intel Pentium III 500-MHz or faster for video authoring; Intel Pentium III 800MHz or faster required for analog MPEG capture and 1.6 GHz for real-time capture from a Digital Video (DV) camera

         Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP  ( some features will only work in XP)

         128 MB RAM

        815 MB of available hard disk space for typical installation of all applications

        Multi-media compliant CD/DVD-Recordable or CD/DVD-Rewritable drive

         800 X 600 display at 16-bit color, 1024 X 768 required for DVD Builder

Recommended 1024 X 768 and color quality at true color or highest

         SVGA video card with 8MB video memory and video overlay capabilities

         Sound Blaster compatible sound card

         Rewritable, or blank recordable CD or DVD discs

Suggested Retail $99.95 boxed Suggested Retail $89.95 download

Roxio, Inc.
455 El Camino Real
Santa Clara , CA 95050
(408) 367-3100 

Website: http://www.roxio.com

Reviewed by Jaye Vullo