ROXIO CREATOR 7
Once upon a time, a company called Adaptec produced an easy to use utility suite for getting the most out of your recordable CD drive. It was called Easy CD Creator. Today, Adaptec concentrates on hardware interface products since Roxio took over as the custodian of Easy CD Creator, except that's not what it's called any more. With the release of version 7, Roxio has acknowledged that the world has moved beyond the basic recordable CD era. We're talking digital media, now, recording to CD, DVD and to removable storage devices, like USB key chains, memory cards and, of course we're distributing digital media around the Internet, via email and on Web sites. Easy CD Creator has become Easy Media Creator, or Creator 7 for short.
So why buy a software package like this any more? Microsoft bundled CD-burning support with the introduction of Windows XP. At the same time improved file browsing with faster generation of image file thumbnails, plus a simple slide show applet were also featured. Without the basic 'makes it work' value to drive sales, Roxio has had to concentrate on feature range and value for money. Windows XP can burn CDs, but Roxio shows there is a lot more to it than recording the final disc.
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Prior to Creator 7, Roxio had a big bag of interesting, usually easy to use, utilities – many of which would be of interest to people wanting to edit and organise photos, audio files and video clips and then burn them to CD or DVD in a variety of ways. It's the same with Creator 7, but different. Before Creator 7, the selection of applications were only loosely coordinated – after all, Roxio and Adaptec had, over the years, acquired component programs from a variety of sources. Now, Roxio presents its library of solutions in a much more managed and coordinated fashion.
To start with, there is a central application and project launcher. All you need to get there is to launch the Creator 7 'Home' application.
Creator 7's centralised application and project launcher
This takes up a fair amount of the screen, so you can also opt for a space saving Drag to Disc mini window, onto which you can drag files in preparation for copying to a CD or DVD.
Creator 7's Drag to Disc space saver
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