Why I buy this one ?
- Lets you burn up to 50 hours of music on DVDs with onscreen menus and Dolby Digital sound
- Automatically adds title, artist and genre tags to audio tracks captured from LP, tape or Internet radio
- Converts LPs and tapes into MP3 or WMA in three easy steps
- Manages and organizes your digital photos
- Create CD or DVD compilations of DVD-Video, DivX and WMV files; burn TiVo recordings to DVD

What our customer's say!

"Problems with Easy Media Creator?", I am blown away by all the criticism of this program. I started with version 4 and upgraded to 8. The only complaint I have with the program is that I cannot blow up photos to individual pixel view like I could in version 4 and the "brush" will not size down enough when you go to full magnification. Other than that I have had no problem. I have run backups, made DVDs, done a lot of photo work, etc., with absolutely no trouble. I installed version 8 from disk, upgraded it, and used it successfully on 2 different computers. I had to reformat my hard drive a few months ago and thus had to reinstall Easy Media again, so that is 3 total trouble free installs for me. The backup program saved my life when I had to reformat. All my files were there for me. I am a 68-year-old grandmother and I don't tolerate programs that do not work or that cause computer problems. I've got to wonder why everyone has so many problems. I've tried Nero and hated it. I just bought Photoshop Elements which I find to be a nightmare to learn. PhotoSuite, on the other hand, is a breeze. Make sure you save your work occasionally as photo work, especially, takes a lot of resources and you need the memory to handle it or it WILL eventually crash your system. When I first started using PhotoSuite I did crash a few times, but I learned to save frequently. When I upgraded to 1 Gig memory that helped considerably.

"Roxio Fails to Fully Deliver", Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 8 is a great value, but be prepared to work for those saved dollars. Numerous programming glitches turn what would have been a simple, somewhat user-friendly DVD creator into a frustrating, time-consuming ordeal. I used it to create a few slideshows. My biggest frustration came when I'd add music, and all of my "zoom & pan" settings would disappear. Then, when I'd add "zoom & pan" settings, my timing settins would change. Ridiculous. Roxio would do well to FULLY test their software before rushing it to the shelves. I would have given it only one star, had it not been for the good price.

"Good for the computer literate", If you are looking for easy to use software then this is it if you have a state of the art computer with massive memory. Otherwise beware. And if you are looking for a package that has good customer support then this is not what you are looking for. It took hours and hours of pain and suffering to finally make this work. Unfortunately most of the good programs of this type are memory hogs and bad customer service. que sara

"Don't Buy It", After a basic installation, I went to Audio and was able to create an audio CD. I then consulted the Help menu to make a label and was directed to Tools/Label/Disc menu. Clicking on this brings up a submenu. At this point, the program became nonfunctional since there is nothing to click to proceed and the directions are to click "Next" which doesn't exist. After an hour in their Live Chat with "Chris", I was able to get to the Label Creator menu via Home/Applications/Label Creator but again the program stalled before I could print a label. It is frustrating that a simple procedure such as making a CD label should be so convoluted.

I also attempted to download update 8.05 without success. I have two outstanding tickets (316965 and 316966) logged two weeks ago on their "Help" site. I doubt that I will receive a response from either. I am currently looking for a video-editing program and I can assure you that it will NOT be a Roxio product.


"Typical "Suite" issues", Software "Suite" programs normally have some very good integrated programs, some very "Lite" editions of good programs and some poor, seemingly thrown in programs just to complete a package or suite offering. Roxio Easy Media 8.0 is a good example of this statement. I have had very good results with the photo software. The video software tends to crash and I have bought Pinnacle Studio 9 for this application.The audio programs are very basic but functional. The Sound Editor program results should be an embarrassment to Roxio. The disc tools are very good. In summary, you will get your money's worth from this program because it offers so many different applications. The bottom line is, if you tend to use software for specific functions, then we are all better off researching and buying dedicated software for this function. Roxio tech services response is slow and often inaccurate.They tend to dwell on trying to convince you to buy another of their product offerings to do what this suite is supposed to do.

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"Be warned about difficulty in installations!!", Have this version of EMC 8 on another computer...worked great. However, when got a new high level Dell and went to install would not even recognize the key code. Thinking that is was prohibited I purchased a new EMC 8 and this new CD would not recognize that key code. Other non-roxio program key codes were used without difficulty. Went to the Roxio site and discovered numerous people having installation problems particularily with those who had any roxio or sonic programs in that computer, many of these may be hidden. I have tried everything known to man to get this CD to even recognize its key...no go, even with the roxio support; clean install did not work. Now any pre-loaded roxio/sonic products have been removed! My advise...stay away from ALL roxio/sonic products at ALL costs until they completely fix this install problem. I have spent too much time on this issue...go elsewhere!! Hopefully I can return this pain of a software.

"Too many problems. limitations", 1. The Capture does not work, ever. Sometimes it completes, but the mpg has only a fraction of the DVD. And they crippled it anyway by no longer capturing from dvd files on a hard disk.
2. If there is an easy way to edit out commercials from a video file, I can't find it.
3. As far as I can tell, EMC ALWAYS re-encodes the video. So you either lose data from your original MPG, or waste space converting to a higher bit rate. Why can't it copy the MPG as is, it is really the same format as the DVD files anyway? TMPGEnc DVD Author does exactly that, it works great.

The only thing I use EMC for is creating data discs, and it is not worth the price for that.

"Top notch & extremly helpful", I do not normally take time to review products but I feel I must after reading some of the reviews here.Roxio Easy Media Creator 8.0 is an excellent product. I have been using it since October 17, 2005 and find it completely user friendly. Anyone who has had trouble should try some of the alternatives. Anyway I have used it on a daily basis for just over a year and find no flaws. I see some people are having trouble with it and believe they need to look deeper into their machine to resolve their issues or simply read the instructions!!!

"Arghhhhhh!", For anyone who has used Windows for more than 6 months this product can be very frustrating. Counter intuitive to the extreme; does not follow normal windows conventions for opening, saving or editing files. Makes simple tasks like creating slideshows a complete pain. Worst is trying to view them when you're finished. As stupid as it sounds, there are no simple commands to actually view a completeded slideshow and Help does not have a topic for "view slideshow". When you ask their automated help character you get responses like, "Register my product" and "create slideshow". I finally opened the 5mb file I created in a crappy res video. I give up!

"Even if it were free - DO NOT BUY IT", I have never in all the years Amazon has been around felt compelled to write a review of a product until now. I implore anyone who will listen DO NOT BUY this s/w. I was a s/w project manager for 20+ years for a large s/w product and thought I'd seen it all, until now. This s/w is an embarassment to s/w development. It is not user friendly, crashes continually, and has a 99 slide limit on its slideshow that makes it basically unusable. I mean who really wants to see their text on the slides after they just type them in? I love pretending that the text is on the slide. Or my favorite - type in all of the text save it, decide to edit it again and oops, where is the text? Oh my, you mean you want the s/w to remember your text? The discussion groups basically say don't use the slideshow feature for creating slideshows, use VideoWave instead. Yeah, still trying to find that simple pulldown that says "VideoWave." It is buried deep in the bowels, of this slow moving s/w. I realize that this is the "older" version, but there is no way that I'd spend one penny on an upgrade. If they felt comfortable with releasing this crappy s/w then who knows what they released this time. Run don't walk away from any ROXIO product. Should have known, since the first time I used a Roxio product many years ago it only caused my machine to give me the blue screen of death. Time for this company to get the blue screen of death.