[blakeb99]

Ok, where should I begin? I just got a new Windows Vista computer with this Roxio 9 on it and is is completely horrible. Problems galore. All i want is my old Roxio 5.2 from 6 years ago back. It was wayyyyyyy better than this new garbage.

Problems with Roxio 9:

NO DRAG AND DROP....wtf?! They expect me to keep clicking "add music" and finding a song here and there then going back and redoing the same process each time.

Also, the songs are not numbered! They used to be numbered. I like to pay attention to what songs are what numbers in the playlist when I am making a CD.

Once you have songs you've added, it does not let you change the order in which you have added them, like move them around or anything. WTF?!?!?! Don't they think people want to pick songs and then possibly rearrange them in a certain order.

Also, you can't change the size/shape of the different windows/boxes. For example, with the old one if you thought the top part was too big you could shrink the box making it smaller and thus making the bottom part bigger. With this new one you can't do any of that.

The simple Roxio 5.2 did all of these things. This knew one supposed to be better? is this what we calling technology these days? Ha.

Also, this new Quick Find they added is annoying as hell. It comes up with lists of songs in different orders, with names of the files slightly changed around. And best of all once it has done its little quick find search and listed the files, you can't delete them at all! Yea, I do realize that you can minimize the little box and not pay attention to it, but still it is annoying as hell knowing the list of files will always be there without no way of deleting it off ever again.


Roxio 9....terrible, terrible, terrible, horrible. I tried to install my Roxio 5.2 using the disc that came with my old computer, but it looks like it doesn't install in Vista. Anyone have any recommendations? Any other CD burning software that is better and would fulfill all my problems I listed?

Thanks a lot.

P.S. The programmer's really need to get a hold of these complaints so they can fix future releases of it.

[blakeb99]

Update:

I am not sure if this is actually the same product. It says Roxio 9 DE on the program...which I can't find anything on here about a DE. But, when I click on it and it opens up it does say Easy Media Creator 9.

[Jim_Hardin]

Dell Edition… AKA: OEM junkware!

If you want real software, you have to buy it.

You have a lot of catching up and learning to do. Drag to Disc was dropped in EMC 10 because it is built into the Vista OS!!!

There have been many more changes while you were letting yourself get 5 versions behind times.

[Ijar]

Update:

I am not sure if this is actually the same product. It says Roxio 9 DE on the program...which I can't find anything on here about a DE. But, when I click on it and it opens up it does say Easy Media Creator 9.

I think it's a Dell version...try contacting Dell!!

[d_deweywright]

Problems with Roxio 9:

NO DRAG AND DROP....wtf?! They expect me to keep clicking "add music" and finding a song here and there then going back and redoing the same process each time.

Rather than using the "add music" button, try opening up Windows Explorer, navigate to the music you want, then drag-and-drop from there. Drag-and-drop still works, but Roxio doesn't provide the same "explorer" interface they used to, but you can do it yourself.

Sorry, but as users, we don't have much input to the "user interface" that's given to us. I agree, the interface for ECDC 5 was indeed more intuitive and quicker in many respects. Of course, that's true for Windows as well.

[blakeb99]

Rather than using the "add music" button, try opening up Windows Explorer, navigate to the music you want, then drag-and-drop from there. Drag-and-drop still works, but Roxio doesn't provide the same "explorer" interface they used to, but you can do it yourself.

Sorry, but as users, we don't have much input to the "user interface" that's given to us. I agree, the interface for ECDC 5 was indeed more intuitive and quicker in many respects. Of course, that's true for Windows as well.

Yea, you can still open up explore and drag it from there but it's still troublesome because the way the Roxio is set up you have to have it open on a very small part on the bottom. You can hardly see any of the songs. I would normally make the explore part very big and the part you drop it into very small, but you can't change that on here.

Does the Easy Media Creator allow you to do this? Is there any other cd burning software that's better?

[blakeb99]

Yea, you can still open up explore and drag it from there but it's still troublesome because the way the Roxio is set up you have to have it open on a very small part on the bottom. You can hardly see any of the songs. I would normally make the explore part very big and the part you drop it into very small, but you can't change that on here.

Does the Easy Media Creator allow you to do this? Is there any other cd burning software that's better?

Ok, a few more questions. A few people keep mentioning Vista has it's own burning software. I've heard about drag to disc and Live File, but can't find any of that on my operating system. Anyone know more about this?

Also, i am not sure if I really know what drag to disc is. i always referred to drag to disc as the simple process of finding the song you want wherever it is stored on your hard drive, clicking and holding down the mouse and dragging it into the file list of the cd you are currently making. is this drag to disc? Or is drag to disc something completely different?

[Brendon]

Blake99,

"Drag to Disc" or D2D is a Roxio 'packet-writing' program which allows you to burn individual files to a specially formatted optical disc.
When it runs on your machine it usually shows a large icon like this, down the right bottom corner of your screen, unless you hide it.


It's not part of the operating system, but needs to be installed. I don't know if D2D is included in the Dell Edition that you have been given free with your computer. Because D2D is integrated into your operating system when it is installed, if you do have it, it will allow you to 'drag and drop' files through your normal Windows Explorer onto that specially formatted disc.


The operation you described of 'dragging and dropping' files into a project file list in one of the EMC9 burning programs is very different. It looks similar because it's using an Explorer-like interface, but the big difference is that D2D actually writes each file onto the formatted disc immediately after you drop it.

Windows Vista has its own 'Live File System' built in. This is the default writing system in Vista, and you can find out all about it in the Vista help system. It has the ability to write to a formatted disc like D2D, as well as a number of other options.

I hope this clarifies the difference between the action of 'dragging and dropping' files into a menu or list, and the Drag to Disc program which writes to formatted optical discs.

Regards,
Brendon

[blakeb99]

Blake99,

"Drag to Disc" or D2D is a Roxio 'packet-writing' program which allows you to burn individual files to a specially formatted optical disc.
When it runs on your machine it usually shows a large icon like this, down the right bottom corner of your screen, unless you hide it.


It's not part of the operating system, but needs to be installed. I don't know if D2D is included in the Dell Edition that you have been given free with your computer. Because D2D is integrated into your operating system when it is installed, if you do have it, it will allow you to 'drag and drop' files through your normal Windows Explorer onto that specially formatted disc.


The operation you described of 'dragging and dropping' files into a project file list in one of the EMC9 burning programs is very different. It looks similar because it's using an Explorer-like interface, but the big difference is that D2D actually writes each file onto the formatted disc immediately after you drop it.

Windows Vista has its own 'Live File System' built in. This is the default writing system in Vista, and you can find out all about it in the Vista help system. It has the ability to write to a formatted disc like D2D, as well as a number of other options.

I hope this clarifies the difference between the action of 'dragging and dropping' files into a menu or list, and the Drag to Disc program which writes to formatted optical discs.

Regards,
Brendon

thanks for the clarification