Customer Reviews

MP3 Maker 11 Deluxe [OLD VERSION]

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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.

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.

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!

I bought this program because I owned an old version of Magix Audio Cleaning Lab which for its time was great! This idiotic program won't even load properly and now that it is partially on my computer it has taken over control so that I get error messages when I try to run iTunes or even the Windows player. I have tried several methods (unsuccessfully) to uninstall it and have decided that to get rid of it I will have to reformat my hard drive. I have NEVER bought such a piece of trash in my life. And forget the company's customer service also - more like customer dis-service.

I had the misfortune of buying this software after using Cakewalk Pyro 2003. All I can say is, you get what you pay for. I tried installing this on 2 different computers, recording didn't work on either one. No volume control, shows recording, but when I tried to play back ... nothing. Tried to get help online (of course no phone support on this cheapie). No luck. What a disappointment. I'll buy Pyro again in a minute, but this dog? Forget it.

The CDDB database flat out does not work at all which renders the program essentially useless. And you can forget MAGIX support or the user forum. AVOID THIS PRODUCT!!

I bought this software because I used an older version of mp3 maker but it started having some problems. Since I liked the product for it's simplicity and functionality I decided to buy this newer version. What a horror! To get full mp3 functionality you have to register the product and then you get a code send by email. Doesn't sound to complicated, does it? I tried everything in my power to get this code, but in vain. Costumer service sucks, it only works by mail or life chat. All my chatpartner gave me was the same instructions from the program's help menu! A call would cost you -no kidding- $25 !!! So now its rotting in some landfill for throwing away is the only thing left to do.

How can I perform all those features listed with this product when even the CDDB does not work. I install the program and nothing works right. The AudioID that's supposed to give me track info takes a long...long...time for each track. I feel like I wasted my money. I have older versions of MP3 makers and they worked better than this supposed updated one. Don't you test anything before you send it out for sale? I am extremely disappointed and this supposedly cool software is just going to sit and collect dust.

Useless!

S.K. from New York