Page 2 The best CD burning software for you? Tech Lab Staff Review, September 24, 2002 In addition, from this navigation window, you can check for program updates and there’s a direct link to CD Label Creator. While you won’t create a Mona Lisa, it does a very good job. There is no CD disk label stomper included as Nero 5 has, so plan on another $15 investment. Project Selector Window You can convert CD tracks directly to MP3 files, as well as adjust the length of silence between recorded CD tracks (most programs are limited to creating a 2-second gap). You can also create fade-ins and fade-outs within a track and add cross fades between tracks. Take Two is simply for backing up your hard drive. Spin Doctor is for removing pops and hisses from records and cassettes, SoundStream will balance the volume levels between various different audio sources you may be using. Spin Doctor is very good, but it is not a match for Nero 5.5’s Wave Editor.				One curious thing that we’ve learned using and reviewing ECDC 5 Platinum and Toast 5 Titanium with Jam and that is, Mac users are getting a far better application. Toast with Jam is just awesome compared to the very competent ECDC 5 Platinum, so eat your hearts out Windows users, or switch. We did have one failed burn in Copy CD with a nearly full CD ROM that contained a lot of clip art and application files. We’ve heard this before, but it’s hard to determine really where the fault lies, the CD ROM burner or the ECDC 5 Platinum. The Bottom Line: With a gorgeous graphical wizard interface, and easy to understand file sorting windows this latest version of Easy CD Creator certainly lives up to its name. Keep up the great evolutionary process. When Roxio makes it even more like Toast with Jam for Mac, our Tech Lab geeks will use Windows computers more to do their CD creating. Retail Price: $99.95 USD Street Price: $59.95 with rebate Tech Lab rating: 2 thumbs up*. You should buy it for everything but heavy duty Audio CD creating; the edge goes to Nero 5.5 Nero 5 Burnig ROM for Windows 98SE-XP Nero 5 Burning ROM v. 5.5 is the latest Windows XP compliant CD writing software from Ahead Software of beautiful Karlsbad Germany (Deutschland). The romantic Black Forest is not the exactly the place you would expect sophisticated software to come from, but it sure does in the form of ”Nero 5 Burning ROM”. It’s written in more languages than you’d believe, too. It’s not to uncommon to find Nero 5 bundled with a medium to high end desktop or notebook Windows platform computer from major brand manufacturers. In cases where computer manufacturers supply their own rudimentary and often very limited CD writing software, Nero makes a great choice for a replacement. next
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