What our customer's say!

"Outstanding Overview of Classical Music", This fascinating title explores nearly every facet of classical music, featuring over 11,000 entries, 200 photographs, 500 music clips, and information on 3,000 operas and 4,000 personalities. The titles include "Live With Chopin", "The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Music", "Vivaldi, The Four Seasons", "Classical Orchestra Notes", and "Mozart, Prince of Harmony". Multimedia presentation includes performances as well as analysis and background material.

"Well, it was cheap", The CD set has a wealth of information- but the media itself (how it loads, how the program plays, how you access info) is dated and VERY basic. It was also a bit surprizing that it takes a bit of doing to ever hear the music. Very "reference text" feeling.

If you are looking for a way to READ more about music, this is a fine set. If you are looking for an interactive experience, keep looking.

"You Get What You Pay For", You will get about $20 worth of use from this product. What you can bring up from the software is entertaining and interesting. However you will not get 1/100th of what you think is promised by the packaging and titles. The software is often difficult and unattractive. The musical examples are limited and not well recorded. The Musical Dictonary gives you precise definitions but not any great commentary. If you expect a great bargain, you will be unhappy. CounterTop is the software equivalent of the Dollar Store. You get what you pay for.

"A Very Bad Trend", If you look at the reviews for the bundled art history software by CounterTop, you will see multiple mentions of software problems. One can only use 2 of the 5 bundled CDs. It's a shame because you can see where the software creators were headed but one cannot get the programs to run correctly. It's almost as if CounterTop doesn't care; they just bundle old software together and provide no support for known problems at their website.