ROXIO EASY CD & DVD

I had an earlier version of Easy CD Creator on another computer, with music files already stored. Roxio, since acquiring the product from Adaptec, no longer supports the old format -- which would have been good information to know BEFORE THE PURCHASE! I already had Nero and would not have purchased this software if they had been forthcoming and stated that information on a disclaimer.

Terrible. Deff not easy!!! Dvd wouldnt even play on my dvd player. So aggravating!!!! I cave find instruction anywhere online either!

I often read product reviews but until now Ive never written one myself. This pathetic excuse for software has finally given me the inspiration to do so. These guys did a really bad job of testing their software before releasing it. Its obviously not ready. After installing it the first time, I did manage to make two CDs but that was after two failures and one of the CDs that it did make caused my system (and my wifes) to crash. I never did get the Creator Classic to work. It gave me a failed API message whenever I tried to run it. I took Roxios advice and reinstalled the SW, but that didnt work. I went to Roxios website but there is no mention of this SW. There were some support solutions that were posted for their other SW so I tried those, but they didnt help. I downloaded a utility to see what was going on in my computer when I tried to run Creator Classic. The problem was the SW couldnt find a couple of files that should have been placed in one of the Roxio subdirectories by the installation program. Thinking that my anti-virus SW was messing up the installation, I reinstalled it again with my AV stuff turned off. The result was Creator Classic didnt give me the failed API message but it would immediately terminate itself. Perhaps the SW would install right if I had done a custom installation, but Im not going to waste any more of my time on this peice of junk. I just wish I had read some of the other reviews before buying this product from a store.

Return software

GOOD

I only have one CD/DVD drive in my computer and it makes copying a bit more difficult, but the program works fine. I bought Roxio as I had it in my old computer and was familiar with it. Delivery was very swift and product all that I expected.

I had another CD copying program on my computer but this one has proven to be much simpler and easier and faster to use.

I bought this software cheap ($10) after an instant rebate and mail-in rebate (that should have been a tip off) from a major big-box office retailer. I am running XP Service Pack 3 on a custom built computer with plenty of ability to run such a package. Right now I have Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 installed and it works fine copying, burning and making libraries and projects with CDs and DVDs. I have been happy with this version. However, because its 6 years old, I decided to try a newer Roxio product because I plan to upgrade to Win 7 and thought a newer package would be compatible with the new Windows. My purchase was a big mistake. I am a fairly experienced computer user 20+ years, so I should have known better. Basically, as in most things, you get what you pay for, so the low price should have been a warning. It turns out that this is 3-year old software (2007) and its slow. Yes, I got it to install OK and it removed my Roxio 7 and it was able to use it to copy a CD. However, it has a clunky interface and, in my opinion, is worse than the older product it sort of replaced. Fortunately, I have Rollback 8.0 on my machine (a great 5-star program by the way - its saved me numerous times) and was able to go back to a previous time and got rid of this Roxio product. Now it goes in the trash. After reading reviews of the latest Roxio products, I am going to stay away from all of them.

I used to be able to convert a song from a commercial CD to a WAV file in the computer with the older version. Newer versions only allow you rip to MP3. This is going backwards. Also I am not allowed to burn a DVD with WAV files. Not much use to me. Miguel Melgar

I am so angry. I bought this product and have been using it for a few months and its been working fine on my Windows 8.1 laptop. All of the sudden, I started to burn a DVD from a video that I took from my camcorder (I made it into a wmv file from Movie Maker first) and its giving me a message that the AC 3 is not an acceptable form of audio and therefore the dvd movie would be silent. WHAT? Ive been using it all along and all of the sudden this happens? No support is available so I guess Im out $30. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY.