Date:         Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:55:53 +0000
Reply-To:     John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
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From:         John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Warning for Those Thinking of Roxio's Easy CD & DVD Creator 6
Comments: To: Toby Dunn <tdunn@OAKHILLTECH.COM>
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At 12:08 04/02/04 -0600, Toby Dunn wrote:

>Another problem I have found is that Roxio's direct cd burn (aka the windows
>explorer drag and drop) does not close out the cd.  I had a guy give me a cd
>that he burned with Roxio.  When I received it I couldn't find any data on
>the cd.  A little later after some careful digging and lots of questions he
>used the direct cd burn option rather than data cd project.  Thus, it failed
>to close the cd and since I wasn't using a cd burner to look at his cd all I
>saw was a blank cd.

Although I, too, have heard of people having all sorts of grievances as
regards the the Roxio Product (I personally have had no problem installing
or using CD Creator 6 under XP), I don't think you can blame Roxio for what
you describe.

What you describe is the expected behaviour when one uses packet writing
software - be that Roxio's DirectCD or Nero's InCD.  In either case, unless
one 'converts' the CD appropriately (i.e to standard CD format) it can, in
general, only be read on a CD writer, and probably only if the appropriate
flavour (Roxio, Nero or whatever) of packet software is installed on the
machine in question.

In common with most people I know, I don't use packet CD writing except for
'local' purposes;  it 'sounds attractive', but comes with all sorts of
problems.

Kind Regards,


John

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