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Roxio Creator 2009 £50

A useful application suite that offers digital music management and more

Roxio Creator 2009

Creator 2009 lets you do more than just burn CDs.

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Creator 2009 is the latest in Roxio's long-running series of disc-burning software packages that was once known as Easy CD Creator. However, these days, burning CDs is the least of its abilities.

Video capture and editing, CD ripping, photo management, data backup, conversion to portable formats – Creator does it all with a simple interface consisting of big buttons and lists of tasks that can be performed.

The main hub interface invariably loads one of Roxio's dedicated programs, so all these tasks are essentially performed by different bits of software, enabling the user to perform multiple tasks at once. Helpful wizards are on hand to assist with the majority of jobs.

The only thing we found slightly disappointing was the auto beat-matching feature, which can be used to automatically create seamless mix CDs. This actually speeds up or slows down the tracks gradually (complete with nausea-inducing changes in pitch) rather than sticking with one tempo, and as such is best suited to mixing music that's already within quite a narrow tempo range.

Verdict

This well-equipped digital media suite keeps getting better.

MusicRadar rating:

4 of 5 stars

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  • sandyd

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    Sat 6 Dec 2008, 4:37 am UTC

    User rating 4 of 5

    This suite is so big it takes awhile to go through a lot of the programs. The good - the arrangement of programs makes a lot of sense and most users can work their way around very easily. The main programs for photos, videos, and sound are adequate and in the case of photos, better than average. It burns dolby stereo disks and can even rip several cds at once if you have several writers. There is some custom making music tracks, somewhat limited but enough to make quick music to use in videos and slideshows.

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MusicRadar rating

4 of 5

Pros

Easy to use. Lots of different applications.
Cons

Beat-matching feature is limited.
Verdict

This well-equipped digital media suite keeps getting better.
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Creator 2009

Price:
£50
Min Processor Speed (GHz) (GHz):
1
OS Requirements:
Microsoft Windows XP or later
Platform:
PC
Ram Required (MB) (MB):
512
Required Hard Disk Space (GB) (GB):
3

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