Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum Edition
Play, rip, edit, manage, and burn your
entire digital music collection with the integrated
player, media manager, and sound editor. Capture and
combine video and photos with a favorite music track,
add transitions and animated DVD menus, and burn to
DVD, VCD, or SVCD to play on your home DVD player. Edit,
organize, and share your digital photos with convenient
drag-and-drop files that let you easily transfer your
digital memories to CD or DVD--disc formatting and burning
happen automatically. Back up, share, or archive your
important files to CD or DVD, or large projects to multiple
discs. Easily access and retrieve files or projects
back to the original or new location with the sleek,
user-friendly interface. Make personalized CD labels,
jewel case inserts, and DVD case covers, choosing from
dozens of professional designs for all occasions Windows
98 / Me / XP / 2000
Nero Burning ROM 5.5 Nero
Burning offers a complete audio-editing and CD-burning
solution, and even lets you design and print cover art
for your new CDs. It all starts with the Nero Wave Editor,
which offers non-destructive editing that lets you try
many options and undo all changes. A range of audio-processing
options gives you complete control over your audio files
before you record them to disc. A real-time "audition"
lets you select and hear effects in real time, as your
sound file plays. Preset Manager lets you save your
frequently-used settings. There are also features for
sample format conversion, anti-aliasing filters, dithering,
and noise shaping. You can design your own CD graphics
quickly and easily with Nero's updated Cover Designer,
which helps you produce professional-looking layouts
for your CD booklets and inserts. Cover Designer includes
assorted graphic effects, customizable design templates,
multi-/maxi-album support, and predefined paper stocks.
The Nero MPEG-1 video encoder allows you to make VCD
and SVCD discs from MPEG files, and convert AVI video
to MPEG via a drag-and-drop interface. Your disc will
then be ready to be burned as a Video CD, playable on
your PC or in compatible DVD players. Windows
95 / 98 / NT / 2000 / Me / XP
MusicMatch Jukebox 7.0 Deluxe MusicMatch
7.0 Deluxe offers a wealth of possibilities for ripping
MP3s, cataloging your music collection, and burning
to disc. It's not a digital music editor, but otherwise
will do everything you need to do. You can record snippets
of selected length from a collection of tracks for preview
or sampling purposes. MusicMatch's volume levelling
allows you to combine music from a variety of sources
without sudden changes in volume between tracks. It's
really easy to use and contains a variety of pro-level
tools. Definitely worth checking out. Windows
Me / 2000 / NT / 98 / 95
MP3/CD
Burning Software
MAC
Toast 5 Titanium Toast
5 Titanium for Macintosh lets you make your own music,
data, and video CDs. Turn your digital photos into a
video slide show and burn them onto a disc. Make video
CDs from your iMovies that are playable on DVD players
and your TV. Turn scratchy LPs and cassettes into crystal
clear CDs. Convert MP3s into audio CDs. Protect your
valuable data on CDs for backup or to share with users
of Windows PCs. Print custom labels and cases for your
new CDs. Toast 5 is also the perfect companion to iMovie
and iTunes, and supports the Macs and CD recorders that
Apple doesn't. Mac OS X
iLife iLife provides
four multimedia applications in one package: iTunes for
managing music, iPhoto for digital photography, iMovie
for editing digital video, and iDVD for creating your
own DVDs. They are all integrated so that they work together
seamlessly. Play, download, import, and do more with Apple’s
premiere digital music player iTunes 3. It gives you instant
access to your music library and playlists from within
the other applications in iLife, just as they are in iTunes.
And you can quickly sample your music too--a play button
is included so you won’t have to launch iTunes just
to find that perfect track. Do more with your digital
photos with iPhoto 2. Organize, edit, share, and even
set photos to music. Use the Retouch wand tool to make
blemishes disappear like magic. And get access to your
photo albums directly from iMovie and iDVD, and bring
in music for your slideshows from iTunes. Mac
OS X
