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(More customer reviews)Ugh. Well, not to sound too negative, let me start with a few positives:
1. It's pretty fast at ripping CDs.
2. The audio effects during playback are kind of fun to play with.
3. As far as I know, the CD burning component works fine; I didn't test that out at all.
4. Um, the install went smoothly?
But for me, they're vastly overshadowed by the negatives:
1. The quality of ripped mp3s is uneven--some tracks have enough defects to be completely unlistenable.
2. It doesn't offer many options for ripping CDs, compared to many freeware programs.
3. It simply refuses to rip some CDs (without even giving notification that it failed), which can be ripped with no problem by WMP, iTunes, or CDex.
4. It crashed when trying to rip some CDs, again which were no problem for other programs.
5. Its help program crashed immediately on startup.
6. It crashed when trying to import some songs into a playlist; you don't have to ask if other programs had any problems with the songs, do you?
7. The visualizer isn't resizeable; you get either tiny or fullscreen, and the fullscreen mode runs at about a frame every two seconds.
8. The music editor doesn't seem to allow mixing multiple tracks, beyond a simple crossfade. Boo!
9. The music editor's copy and paste commands don't work the same with all sounds, with no explanation--on my imported songs, it would not let me copy or paste anything.
10. If you quit the program and tell it to save the current playlist, and if it's unable to save some part of the playlist, then it just quits without saving anything (or giving you a chance to fix the problems).
11. Wait a second, the install didn't go smoothly! The program installed itself into "c:\Magix\", without asking if I had somewhere less conspicuous in mind. If all my software did that, I'd never find anything on my computer.
12. The uninstall didn't seem to remove anything from my hard drive, which did have the upside of allowing me to delete that wretched "c:\Magix\" folder myself.
Seriously, folks, this is bad, bad software.
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MP3 Maker 2005 is the ideal control system for your digital music archive. Administer and process any music format from all sources, make it mobile, convert from other formats or create the perfect mix. Record new music from external sources or from Internet stations Normalizer adjusts volume levels automaticallyCombine your music with animations and digital images, for a complete music showMusic labeling include templates for customized CD covers, inlays and stickers Listen to over 100 preconfigured Internet radio stations
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