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 enlarge | From: Roxio
Category: Software
List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $38.99
You Save: $60.96 (61%)
New (13) Used (3) from $33.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  198 reviews
Sales Rank: 509
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: 235600
Model: 235600
UPC: 815227007998
EAN: 0815227007998
ASIN: B000UJUJ7U
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Bitter Disappointment September 18, 2008
I expected to receive the unit in a used box with all the douumentation. It arrived as simply a CD in a bubble pack mailer without any documentation. I loaded it, but I have no Idea what it can do, without documentation.
This was a cheap lesson. I will be more careful in the future when I purchase through Amazon. If i purchase through Amazon
 Save your money September 15, 2008
Save your money and look for something else. This is the worst software program that i've purchased in a long time..
complete waste of money September 14, 2008
First of all, this program is a massive system hog. It took over an hour to install, and then I had to do several registry tweaks to stop some of its components from automatically starting every time I boot (why do software makers assume their product is the only one you ever plan to use?)
Then, the interface is clumsy, not very intuitive at all in my opinion. Simple tasks, like burning an MP3 disc, are not accesible from the main screen. I had to go to the "help" function to find out how to burn an MP3 disc, but "help" was nearly worthless.
In fact, almost everything I've tried to do with EMC Suite 10 I've needed to search for help on, but the help screens (so far, at least) NEVER tell you where to go! They say "click on such-and-such button", but no such button exists on the screen where you're at, and they don't tell you how to get to the screen you need to be on.
A couple "features" I found especially absurd became evident when I tried to burn a simple audio CD (which is 99% of what I expected to use this program for). The main screen has a "most frequent tasks" menu on the right, and the top of the menu is "Audio CD". Perfect, this should be easy. I add tracks, just like I did with the free Nero product that came with my CDRW/DVDRW drive, but I notice all tracks have a 0 second pre-gap. There ought to be a way to set a default pregap (and probably is, but I couldn't find it) - so I had to manually set the gap on each of the 17 tracks I'd loaded. Then, I want to burn 4 copies, so I click "Audio CD Options". What comes up is a menu of options, most of which have nothing at all to do with burning audio CDs. The only relevant options are "Normalize" and "Reduce Background Noise", features no one who cares about audio integrity would ever use at the burn stage anyway. No option anywhere, as far as I can tell, to burn multiple copies. So, back to the help screen - it points to a feature called "Burn Options", but as I mentioned before, doesn't tell me where to find it. I eventually find it, but it's not available in the "Audio CD" program I'm running - it's in another program called "Music Disc Creator" which has more features, but a completely different interface and a different project file format (in other words, even though I saved the project I'd set up in the "Audio CD" program, "Music Disc Creator" couldn't open or import it. Huh? Both components in the same suite, produced by the same software maker, and they're not compatible with each other? Is Roxio in competition with itself?) I had to start from scratch, loading my tracks, arranging their order manually (the wav files I wanted to burn are numbered, so all I should have to do is sort tracks by filename, but there doesn't seem to be any sort option), and manually setting all the pre-gaps again. Easy, sure.
I bought this suite mainly for 2 reasons, I wanted CD-burning software with better control than my old program (which this does seem to have), and because I wanted to try some video editing. EMC 10 obviously has lots of features, and may not be so bad for someone already accustomed to Roxio's quirks, but I feel I've already wasted too much time on it. Since the interface was apparently designed by trained monkeys, I don't find a lot of incentive to presume that the actual function engines are intelligently conceived either. I plan to uninstall Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 10 (if it lets me), try to get part of my money back by selling it on Ebay, find a comparable shareware product (there's probably even a freeware product superior to this one), and never waste my time on anything from Roxio again.
 Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 10 September 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have used Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 and found it very easy. However, Creator 10 is not Easy to use!
Roxio Easy Media Creayor Suite 10 hard to instll September 12, 2008
MCS 9 came with my HP computer, however it did not allow creation of music from the internet. MCS10 offered this feature. When I installed MCS10 it looked looked it would be OK however it took forever to index music files and would not close woth out forcing it with manager. Re-installed the sw and the program worked a little better but it could not find some files certain apps needed. I needed to find them manually and it continues to ask for them every time I use the apps. other then that sw works Ok but kind of clunky.
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