Why I buy this one ?
- Burn playlist contents on the fly, in any file format, onto CD and DVD
- Drag and drop songs into your mix, directly from the Explorer or database
- Add fantastic special effects to your mix - Reverb, Scratch effects, Compressor,3D effects and much more
- Workshop of precision editing tools enhance the sound of your music
- Better support for mobile music - special connection center makes it easy

What our customer's say!

"Don't waste your money", I have better things to do than write this review, but I really wanted to warn people against wasting their hard earned money on this trash.

I was given this product by a friend who was having trouble with it. On the plus side it installed quickly and it fired up a tutorial which did a fair job of demonstrating the capabilities and general use of the product. In just a few minutes I was converting my old .wma files to mp3's for a jukebox cd.

After a few minutes things started going wrong. The program, for no apparent reason, locks up about every 5-10 minutes. In converting enough files for one mp3 disk over the course of less than an hour the program locked up SIX times! Three times I was able to kill it with Windows Task Manager and restart and three times I had to reboot my whole computer. Most other reviewers here on Amazon are reporting the same problem on their machines.

Also, like others have reported, some songs just wont rip/convert at all. For example, "Riders on the Storm" from my Doors' "L.A. Woman" album just wouldn't go. That song is 7 minutes and 15 seconds long. Magix only showed it to be 5 seconds long. If I played it in Magix I only got 5 seconds. If I ripped it I got 5 seconds. If I converted it from my Windows Media Player .wma file I got 5 seconds.

Furthermore, I fired the program up again today and tried to convert a few files in the background while surfing the internet. Every time Magix was started it corrupted my Internet Explorer session.

This program is a real piece of excrement. I am not a computer novice and I have a very nice up-to-date and stable computer. I am having no trouble running similar software from other vendors.

If you see this software for sale run away, don't walk. Thank goodness I didn't pay any money for it. If you are already stuck with it I recommend taking the disk to the shooting range and using it for target practice.

"Truly sad", . . . that I spent my hard-earned money on this software. The interface is confusing, and unlike the free player/burners you can download off the Internet, it offers no way to access track info on music CD's from the Internet.

Kevin, Plano, TX

"They know its bad. They'll just try to con you.", I have an older version of MP3 Maker Gold. When I tried to resample something from 44100 to 22050, it cut the playback rate in half, i.e. it ran at half speed. I have other software that resamples it at the correct speed.

I contacted technical support and they said cutting the playback rate was the correct thing to do. They continued to tell me that I shouldn't be using 22050, but should use 44100. They would never deal with the issue.

This is like a contractor building a house, and part of the floor caves in. They then tell the inhabitants not to walk there and everything will be ok.

Trashy product, trashy company.

"Very Buggy", Ugh. Well, not to sound too negative, let me start with a few positives:

1. It's pretty fast at ripping CDs.
2. The audio effects during playback are kind of fun to play with.
3. As far as I know, the CD burning component works fine; I didn't test that out at all.
4. Um, the install went smoothly?

But for me, they're vastly overshadowed by the negatives:

1. The quality of ripped mp3s is uneven--some tracks have enough defects to be completely unlistenable.
2. It doesn't offer many options for ripping CDs, compared to many freeware programs.
3. It simply refuses to rip some CDs (without even giving notification that it failed), which can be ripped with no problem by WMP, iTunes, or CDex.
4. It crashed when trying to rip some CDs, again which were no problem for other programs.
5. Its help program crashed immediately on startup.
6. It crashed when trying to import some songs into a playlist; you don't have to ask if other programs had any problems with the songs, do you?
7. The visualizer isn't resizeable; you get either tiny or fullscreen, and the fullscreen mode runs at about a frame every two seconds.
8. The music editor doesn't seem to allow mixing multiple tracks, beyond a simple crossfade. Boo!
9. The music editor's copy and paste commands don't work the same with all sounds, with no explanation--on my imported songs, it would not let me copy or paste anything.
10. If you quit the program and tell it to save the current playlist, and if it's unable to save some part of the playlist, then it just quits without saving anything (or giving you a chance to fix the problems).
11. Wait a second, the install didn't go smoothly! The program installed itself into "c:\Magix\", without asking if I had somewhere less conspicuous in mind. If all my software did that, I'd never find anything on my computer.
12. The uninstall didn't seem to remove anything from my hard drive, which did have the upside of allowing me to delete that wretched "c:\Magix\" folder myself.

Seriously, folks, this is bad, bad software.

"Exciting program, when you figure it out", I'm a disgruntled Windows Media Player user. I like WMP's intuitive interface, song organization, and ratings. I HATE the fact that I can't burn WMA discs with my Lite-On CD AND DVD burners! That makes the program completely useless for me.

Seeking an alternative, Magix's MP3 software was one of the few I found. Another website found it the program to be quite useful, but extremely hard to learn. I concur.

The program is EXTREMELY non-intuitive. Although the program installed easily, using it after the fact made my computer (Windows XP) crash several times, presumably because I forced the program to do a few things it didn't want to.

After a few days of intermittent use, I'm getting a handle of the program, and I'm finding it very useful. Consider the following positive aspects:
1. For those of us with lots of music on our harddrives in a "My Music" folder, the program quickly finds the music you've ripped for use. From within the program, you can do anything to cut, copy, and paste and otherwise organize your music, and the corresponding changes will be made in real time, as you will find if you went directly to the folder from "My Documents," for example.

2. The Music Editor portion of the program has been immediately helpful for deleting dead portions of silence in songs that might buffer the last numbered track of a CD and a hidden track. There's lots of good music in these places on CDs, and now you'll be able to add them to mixed CDs.

3. The program supports WMA, WAV, and a couple different types of MP3 files, and easily converts files back and forth. The program, however, doesn't seem to want to burn, rip, or edit songs in WMA format. Therefore, all of the Windows Media ripping you've done will have to be converted to MP3, which as of now seems to be only a minor problem.

4. Categorization of music, an important aspect of any media player, is time consuming and not completed as quickly as with WMP. Regardless, it's possible, and that's a plus.

5. Overall, the program works smoothly when you figure it out. I've been able to burn an 80 minute, CDA. format CD on my Lite-On burner with no problem. I've not yet burned an MP3 disc for use in my Pioneer, MP3 compatible player in my car. My opinion of the program would change drastically if there's a compatability problem somewhere in this process. But, knock on wood, I don't anticipate any problems.

In sum, if you've got time to give this program a try, you probably won't be disappointed. If you're like me, and you want to organize your music in a number of different ways, you want to edit silence and other non-sense from long tracks, and you want to work and burn discs in useable formats, you'll probably like this program. Give it some time, though.