MP3 Maker Diamond

by Magix Entertainment

Product Features

• Fast, automated ripping & recording
• MP3, mp3PRO, OGG Vorbis, WAV and Windows Media encoding
• Add fades & cuts with the music editor
• Apply professional effects including Reverb, Delay, Stereo Enhancer, Maximizer, Equalizer and more
• Record cassettes and LPs to your hard drive, and directly record Internet radio

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000092P2Y
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 11, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,405 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #8 in Software > Video & Music > MP3 Software
  • #17 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Music Creation & Sequencing
  • #20 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Sound Editing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Thanks to the Internet, the PC now acts as a gateway to the world of music. MAGIX mp3 maker 2004 diamond makes your music mobile and available at all times, for all occasions--MP3, OGG, etc. for CD & DVD players, PCs, automobiles, MP3 players or your discman.

Rip & Convert
Fast, automated ripping & recording. Transfer CD track info (title, artist, etc.) from the CDDB online Database in WAV or MP3 formats.

Encode
More encoding options, including MP3, mp3PRO, OGG Vorbis, WAV and Windows Media, ensure the best possible sound--wherever it's being played.

Edit
Add fades & cuts with the music editor, then divide into tracks & filter background noise.

Enhance
Apply pro effects: Reverb, Delay, Stereo Enhancer, Maximizer, Equalizer or Brilliance Enhancer and 3D sound. Use the scratch module to stop, spin or accelerate any digital audio.

Player
MAGIX mp3 maker 2004 diamond is the ideal player for all digital media. Choose the Mini Mode to listen to music while using the PC for other applications. Make individual track crossfades and get more than 100 preset Internet radio broadcasters.

Record
Record cassettes and LPs to your hard drive, and directly record Internet radio, television & video soundtracks or telephone calls, in realtime or set the exclusive MAGIX programmable timer.

Organizer
You manage it all: Individual backups, automatic database repair and error recognition plus database import from the previous version, favorite song categories even database printing options.

Copy
1:1 music CD backups are dead easy to make. Simply push a button and the data lands on the blank CD as fast as your burner allows. While the precious original remains at home, your copy can hit the road--ideal for your discman and automobile sound system.

Burn
Old recordings and new hits can be archived in space-saving formats, or even burned onto a Best Of compilation CD - all directly from the program. An integrated MAGIX burn profiler automatically recognizes CD burners and their maximum speeds. Regular updates are posted on the Support and Download pages at www.magix.com.

Create
Music may be the most important aspect of a CD, but relevant background information combined with cool cover design give it a professional edge. The quick and easy CD Cover & Label print studio helps you design and print your own layouts. If you're short of ideas, there's a wide range of layout templates to choose from.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This software should be free !, December 4, 2003

By 

Willy Boy "Willy Boy" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MP3 Maker Diamond (CD-ROM)

And even then I wouldn't recommend it. I found this software simple and unhelpful. There is no great organization capability and the program seems to waste a lot of disk space needlessly. I origianlly worked with Sonicstage (Sony) which I thought was great. Unfortunately Sonicstage copyright protects everything and it is therefore impossible to transfer music from one computer to the next. I bought mp3maker to solve this problem. It turned out to be a great irritation.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars TERRIBLE, November 28, 2003

By 

RMurray847 "afilmcritic.com" (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MP3 Maker Diamond (CD-ROM)

The only thing to recommend this software is the somewhat intuitive interface. Otherwise, this is the worst ripper I have ever worked with. Almost every track I ripped, both on my laptop and home PC have beeps, pops and annoyances. Almost nothing is listenable.

It is also one of the slowest I have used, and some CDs, for no reason I could find, just wouldn't rip. It would find the songs and then start to rip and just suddenly start moving at a pace where it would have taken about 8 hours to rip one album.

Then, when I went to burn a music CD...a simple project, right?...it NEVER completed the burn. Always an error about halfway through, so I ended up with a handful of half complete CDs before I finally just gave up.

Don't use this software!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not bad for the price.., January 19, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: MP3 Maker Diamond (CD-ROM)

I purchased this product to record and encode music from a large collection of LPs I have. The product is not the easiest to use, and it took me several hours of "messing around" to finally get a good process for recording, cleaning up and converting to mp3. I think the audio editor is not bad, but the controls for cleaning up hisses/pops/hums etc. that typically come from LPs is lacking. I also discovered that there is another product from this company called "audio cleaning lab" that contains the additional cleanup features I was looking for and does a much better job overall with the record-edit-convert to mp3 process than this product. Bottom line, for 30 bucks it isn't too bad and it gets the job done after spending some time with it. But if you are intending to record LPs to digital format and clean them up, I think the audio cleanup lab may be a better fit.