![]() ![]() The one limit: you can't automatically span files across multiple discs using Drag-to-Disc. ( Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2.0 features a similar tool.) Drag-to-Disc does the rest, and if it needs a nudge, you'll find a passel of functions on a pop-up menu, from formatting to viewing disc contents to running diagnostics. Instead of loading different modules and flipping through menus to burn a CD or write files to an erasable DVD+RW, just drag the desired data-from Windows Explorer, the desktop, even other applications-onto the 1x2-inch Drag-to-Disc pad. Roxio should take a hard look at Apple's new iLife, a suite that performs many of the same tasks as Easy CD and DVD 6.0, but with vastly more elegant integration.Ĭreator's notable innovation is Drag-to-Disc, a one-stop shop for many burning, writing, and management functions. Worse, the new Drag-to-Disc feature doesn't have access to the disc-spanning feature built into Classic. But instead of building library management into the player, Roxio creates a Media Explorer module. You can, for example, call up Creator Classic from within the audio player to burn a disc. More to the point, there's little connection among modules. The new audio player, on the other hand, looks like Windows Media Player, while the DVD Builder (for assembling video clips) is a train wreck of playback, edit, and import windows. ![]() Creator Classic (the core disc-burning program) is the spitting image of Easy CD Creator 5.0, with its dual-window, Explorer-like interface. Even within a module, you can sometimes do the same thing two or three ways. Roxio's bid for integration is a simple main menu that gives you access to Creator 6.0's main modules.īut dig past this seemingly put-together interface, and you discover that Creator is a mulligan stew of modules with overlapping functions and varying interfaces. ![]() A simple front-end menu gives you one-click entrée to the five major modules: Creator Classic, DVD Builder, Audio Central, Disc Copier, and PhotoSuite. Roxio has regrouped features, added new modules devoted to music and video authoring and playback, standardized some operations, and given everything a candy-coated, Windows XP sheen. The software's "revamped" interface, on the other hand, is a mixed bag. In a few minutes, it uninstalls your old Easy CD program, reboots, and places version 6.0 on your system. More experienced CD authors should stick with Nero Burning ROM, which offers powerful burning in a tidier package.Ĭreator 6.0's installer is smart and quick. If you're a happy Easy CD Creator 5.0 user, there's little reason to upgrade, and we prefer Pinnacle Expression for easy DVD creation. If you're looking for the iLife of the PC platform, Roxio's package is the best you can do, but it isn't nearly as well integrated as Apple's suite. But features that truly set it apart from earlier versions-such as the DVD movie-authoring tool-are half-baked. In this version, Roxio adds support for all the major writable DVD formats (even DVD-RAM), improves the analog music recorder, and throws in a decent sound editor and music player. On one hand, the vaunted Roxio disc-burning software is as solid as ever on the other, Creator 6.0 suffers from too many modules, feature duplication, and minimal integration between utilities. In version 6.0, Roxio beefs up the name, but the software itself has many of the same pros and cons. Once upon a time, Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator was called simply Easy CD Creator. ![]()
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