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MP3 Maker Diamond

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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.

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!!

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.