If you are a music fan, whether you download songs from the Internet or have a vast collection of CDs, LPs and cassettes stored in your house, Roxio has a piece of software that will help you manage your collection and get more out of your music.
Roxio is probably best known as the maker of Easy CD Creator, a program that helped users make copies of media, even from copy-protected disks. Roxio's newest foray into digital media management is Easy Media Creator 8 Suite, which allows users to capture, rip and store digital audio, make and share playlists, import and organize photos, capture and edit video, view DVDs, back up files, burn audio, video, CDs, DVDs and photo CDs with ease and much more.
But there's much more to Roxio than Easy Media Creator. Roxio's DigitalMedia Studio will help you burn discs for backup and sharing of files and music, as well as allowing you to organize your CD collection, browse by artist, album and genre and create your own mix CDs in minutes.
Roxio's PhotoSuite allows you to easily correct problems in your digital photos, create calendars, cards and other projects involving photos and burn CDs to preserve your precious photos.
eDVD by Roxio allows you to add all sorts of bells and whistles to DVDs you author, including links to web pages, high-definition video, high-resolution still photos, presentations, documents, spreadsheets, flash animation, MP3s and more. And if you need help editing the video for your Hollywood-quality DVD, Roxio can help you with its VideoWave program.
Roxio can also help you capture, compress and store DVDs, remove subtitles or alternative language tracks, combine DVD and DivX formats on one disk, play back on your computer, make labels for your disks and much more.
If you use a Macintosh computer, don't despair. Roxio has powerful media management software for you, too. It's called Toast, and it makes just about anything you'd want to do with digital audio or video a whole lots easier.
Roxio's Toast takes drag and drop simplicity to a whole new level, allowing you to convert DivX files to DVD, burn large files across multiple disks, compress DvDs, put music on an audio DVD with TV menus and shuffle options, create high-definition slide shows, even make custom hybrid Mac and PC discs.
Toast will also help you make widescreen DVDs, convert LPs, cassettes and CDs to your iPod, And with Spin Doctor, which is included with Toast 7, you can capture live audio and store it on your computer. Record a speech, Internet radio, even your old record collection and burn it to CD or audio DVD.
Roxio's line of software allows you to take control of all the media in your home, whether you want backups of DVD movies in case the kids scratch them up, a place to store family photos or a way to collect and organize your entire audio collection.
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