Cakewalk MediaWorks

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Summary: Does not recognize CD burner on my HP media center
Review: My wife purchased this product for me for Christmas and I must say at first it looked extremely easy to use. However it would not recognize I had a DVD RW drive in my HP media center PC when every other application I have has no problem using it. For a CD burner it is pretty useless if it does not even recognise your drive as a burner. Then both my CD drive and DVD drive disappeared from my system (Not physically of course). The registry entries for them became corrupted. I had to do a complete rebuld of my system and it took me about 8 hours of time to get it back to a working state with my previously loaded software. I have deleted all traces of it and am taking it right back to the store.

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Summary: Elegant simplicity if you have a recent system
Review: Requirements or rather reccomended systems are rather high but if you have a recommended system and the burner and reader are compatible this program is more than adequate for the beginner.
Although Nero is nice with all it's bells and whistles and control panels and options Mediaworks or just Pyro are miles ahead in terms of simplicity. My Mom has a copy as well as myself.