ECDC5 Platinum or RecordNow Platinum

[hvsteve1]

I would like to start recording vinyl to CD, which I haven't done before. I have ECDC 5 Platinum. Is the record cleanup function on that similar to the new RecordNow Platinum or is there enough of a difference to blow the additional money to upgrade? Also, I haven't paid to download software before. If my hd eats itself, am I out the money? Also, is the cd version limited to one computer? The easiest way for me do use the program is for CD and online recording on my desktop and vinyl dubbing on a laptop hooked up to my home theater system.

[lynn98109]

What are your computer specs? What kind of processor, how much power, how much RAM, how much Hard Drive space, what kind of Audio card?

 

What Operating System do you have? If WinXP SP2, ECDC 5 may or may not work with it - officially it is unsupported, and some have gotten it to work while more have not.

 

Lynn

[hvsteve1]

To tell the truth, I got ECDC 5 for my laptop and have been using Media Center on my new desktop. It's an Acer Aspire with an Athlon 64 X2 3700 with 1 GB of RAM, 250 GB HD and DVD Dual drive. The sound is on the motherboard as is NVIDIA nForce 4 graphics. I have been considering more RAM and, if necessary, a sound card. I don't do gaming or have a killer audio system so my needs are simple.

[ogdens]

To tell the truth, I got ECDC 5 for my laptop and have been using Media Center on my new desktop. It's an Acer Aspire with an Athlon 64 X2 3700 with 1 GB of RAM, 250 GB HD and DVD Dual drive. The sound is on the motherboard as is NVIDIA nForce 4 graphics. I have been considering more RAM and, if necessary, a sound card. I don't do gaming or have a killer audio system so my needs are simple.

 

 

As lynn has already pointed out ECDC 5 may work and may not.

 

Why dont you try CD-wave http://www.milosoftware.com/cdwave/ and put it on your desktop.

 

Read this also http://www.the-predator.com/dell/sec7-9.html

[d_deweywright]

I would like to start recording vinyl to CD, which I haven't done before. I have ECDC 5 Platinum. Is the record cleanup function on that similar to the new RecordNow Platinum or is there enough of a difference to blow the additional money to upgrade? Also, I haven't paid to download software before. If my hd eats itself, am I out the money? Also, is the cd version limited to one computer? The easiest way for me do use the program is for CD and online recording on my desktop and vinyl dubbing on a laptop hooked up to my home theater system.

Actually, the audio cleaning is in Sound Editor in EMC 9 (and 8), and it is very different from what comes with ECDC 5. In my opinion it is much better than what came with ECDC 5. As far as the download, just save the downloaded files to CD or DVD in case there's a problem with your HD later. That's what you'd do with any important download, isn't it?

 

The license for the CD (and for the download, I'm sure) says it's just for one installation on one PC. You decide how closely you follow the letter of the license. I know some software licenses allow two installations as long as only one is running at a time. Roxio/Sonics license doesn't read that way.

 

As for processing power, you've got plenty. Audio work isn't nearly as CPU intensive as video work. "Way back when", I was making audio CDs from vinyl on an 80MHz CPU system.

[gi7omy]

To add to what Dave said (but regarding your h/d eating itself) you have two options

 

One is contacting Roxio with your original download license and being authorised for a fresh one.

 

The other is to either write the downloaded files to a CD and put it away somewhere safe, or to extract them to a temp folder (they're actually self-extracting archives) and then burn the contents of the folder. I prefer that way myself (there is an autorun.inf file there and it means the CD will start the installation process for you)