MP3 Maker 11 Deluxe [OLD VERSION]

by Magix Entertainment

Product Features

• Updated interfaces; improved synchronization; high-end effects
• Software for converting music into all common formats
• Listen, download, subscribe, and transfer podcasts to portable devices
• Internet radio with time-delayed listening, parallel recording, and more
• Query and update title info for files or whole folders and archives

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FFQKAE
• Item model number: 639191230011
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,401 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #3 in Software > Video & Music > MP3 Software
  • #82 in Software > Video & Music > Software

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

MP3 Maker 11 Deluxe converts your music into all common formats. Take music from the Internet, your CDs, or your hard disk or network and transfer it onto your MP3 player and other mobile devices. Compile and burn complete music collections. This is the perfect solution for all of your music.

Features:

• Magix Headphone Surround effect: for real room sound, everywhere
• Magix AudioID: query and update title information for individual files or whole folders and archives
• Podcasts: listen, download, subscribe, and transfer to portable devices
• Universal Plug'n'Play: MP3 Maker as a networked music server or client
• MP3 player synchronization: updated interfaces and improved synchronization
• Internet radio: time-delayed listening, parallel recording, automatic track separation, etc.
• Magix Smart Look: uncomplicated and optimized user guidance
• Professional high-end effects thanks to the new Audio Engine

Product Description

MAGIX MP3 MAKER 11 DELUXE

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Track listing database solution., May 21, 2007

By 

Brainstorm Records (Three minutes east of Atlanta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MP3 Maker 11 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

From the way that Magix operates it seems to have been aimed at the millions of itunes users who want greater control over their extensive music purchases. The default conversion window options are possible music source folders, including itunes and other music download engines you may use. itunes ma4 files can be converted to mp3, track listing info included, with just a few clicks.

Direct titling of imported cd tracks creates another issue entirely. The native application seems to allow only for manual track title entry. The instruction manual says to go to a non-existent online database. Perhaps once upon a time the db was live but now it certainly is not. So you have to manually type in all the track info, right? Instead of importing your cd's directly with Magix, import them with itunes first, making sure that the titling option is enabled. Import them from itunes to Magix and you're ready to go. Be sure too delete the files from itunes to free up hard drive space.

It seems pretty silly to have to use a second program to get the best use out of this one, but a lot of us are used to compartmentalised functionality. Do you rip and burn all media formats with the same program? I frequently use a specialized program for authoring and a separate one for burning. Same theory here. The great big problem is not the product but its marketing. The program is not aimed at the people who can get the best right-out-of-the-box functionality and the instructions are hardly aimed at the people who would most want the program. I'm sure the legal department had some involvement in this particular dabacle as well.

I have been using itunes nearly since its inception. In the ensuing years there have been numerous updates and improvements. Somewhere along the line, though, they disabled mp3 conversion (if it was ever really there to begin with). Cd audio files are converted to ma4 only and are excluded when you burn an mp3 cd using itunes. Obviously, if itunes made mp3 conversions, we would not need a separate mp3 maker. So the idea of using itunes at all when using Magix is 100% counter-intuitive and would be lost to someone unfamiliar with itunes' functionality.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works for me, March 8, 2007

By 

Garand MOTU (Living free in USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MP3 Maker 11 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I just bought this item at a retail store, and like I do with most software or DVD purchases, I check out how others have rated the product before I open it. After checking Amazon.com customer reviews for this, I was sure I was going to return it. But, since the box had a sticker on it that said 100 free song downloads from Emusic, I figured, what the heck, if the software is as bad as the reviewers state at least I will have 100 free songs. Emusic sucks!! My wife and I could not find 1 (one) song we wanted to download (at least by the original artist)and we looked for dozens and dozens. So that left installing the MP3 Maker 11 to confirm I DID waste ALL of my money. I am no huge computer expert, but I do know enough (and have had enough experience with garbage software) to know that this title is easy to install, has an easy and intuitive interface, and has done everything I've asked of it, with no hick-ups. I have not explored everything it can do, but I did compile lists of my song library files, converted them to MP3 format, and they play great. I am very pleased so far with this product and would have given it 5 stars if I wasn't so bummed about Emusic sucking so bad, and that yet another online site has my credit card #. Actually, that is not fair to blame Magix for Emusic.com so I will change my 4 star to a 5 star.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nice box, terrible product, March 5, 2007

By 

Mcshay (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MP3 Maker 11 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

This is probably the worse excuse for a commercial software package than I have seen in 20-years. The documentation, including the online PDF manual is useless, following some cosmic logic that would suppose if you threw 2 different 500-piece jigsaw puzzles into the air it would come down as a single completed picture. I spent 3-hours trying to make the ID3 functions work correctly and only 25% of the time would files get updated correctly, but often even some of those would mysteriously later blank out the data in the fields. The manual proudly declares this is "an intuitively constructed program," - perhaps if you are a schizophrenic monkey. The producer touts a so many great options available with this program that I'm sure some of them are bound to work - but after wasting 4-hours with this turkey, I couldn't find many (even after downloading their "update.") Consumer beware, this product is junk!