Magix MP3 Maker | 
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| From: Magix Entertainment
Category: Software
Buy New: $2.99
New (5) Used (2) from $2.99
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 15923
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Macintosh, Linux, Unix, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Linux
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.5 x 2
Model: 609101
UPC: 639191091018
EAN: 0639191091018
ASIN: B00004GP54
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
Aimed at the music enthusiast who needs a one-stop MP3 solution, Magix's MP3 Maker provides a full set of features for creating and listening to MP3 files, as well as for burning custom CDs that contain them. MP3 Maker rips to WAV and encodes effectively to MP3, MP2, and WMA. Its standard encoder produces good-sounding audio, but encodes slowly, managing little better than real time. MP3 Maker also includes a 20-file trial version of QDesign's MP3 encoder, which produces higher-quality audio, and encodes more quickly. Serious users will want to upgrade to the full QDesign encoder. A wizard registers you with CDDB, the CD-information database, so that MP3 Maker can tag MP3 files automatically. You also can edit tags manually. Twin players with cross-fade capability provide good flexibility. Each player has a pitch control, and, with the 10-band graphic equalizer, you can adjust the sound of the music to suit your listening arrangements. The equalizer includes built-in presets, but you can't save your own equalizations. More disappointingly, you can't play music while ripping and encoding. A welcome bonus is the Music Editor application, which lets you edit music files. For example, you can reduce noise from a WAV file that was recorded from vinyl before you encode it to MP3 or normalize tracks to ensure a consistent volume range. MP3 Maker's CD-burning features are minimalist, but they're effective enough with supported CD-R/CD-RW drives. Detracting from MP3 Maker's features is a complex and counterintuitive interface that's designed to dazzle. Users who are comfortable with misused controls and the occasional word in German need have no fear, but others might want to look to other MP3-creation products, such as MusicMatch Jukebox 5.0 Deluxe. --Guy Hart-Davis
Amazon.com Product Description
The MAGIX mp3 maker simplifies the reading and writing of MP3 files. Just download music files from the Internet (or import tracks from your audio CDs), create your play list, and burn. The integrated Music Editor even allows you to import and clean old analog recordings. Using the unlimited encoder, you can quickly convert all of your music into MP3 format for any purpose. Create files for the Web, for a party, or your sound archive.
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 Sorriest program I have ever purchased October 12, 2005
J. Martin (High on a Mountainside, Tennessee)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this product at Best Buy, about 1.5 weeks ago, with the intention of converting some of the many tapes I have over to mp3's, and maybe burning some of them onto CD for safe keeping. Look at the box cover and this program can do everything but slice bread. I paid a little over $30, plus tax.
Well, this program is a nightmare. First off, the instructions that come with it is for the previous product (I have MP3 Maker 10), so some of it doesn't even make sense. The instructions often make no sense whatsoever, because they don't clarify how to do things that one might want to do regularly, i.e. record from the "line in" source on the computer. You pretty much are on your own to figure it out.
When you're recording from the "microphone" source, you get a ridiculous echo in your computer's speakers, so it makes it difficult to even figure out when to stop recording.
The program refuses to record directly in MP3 format, which was the main reason I bought it. I can record a WAV, but no MP3.
The "support" for this product is a joke. There's no phone number, only e-mail or "live" (sometimes), and the fixes they give you are the same regurgitated stuff on the website for the fixes.
All in all, this product and support are so atrocious not only would I not buy this again, I wouldn't buy ANYTHING from this company. I don't even want my money back, I just want this stupid program to do what it's supposed to do...
What a waste of my money and time! May 18, 2004
Reyn (Central Coast)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I could not believe the nerve of this company to market this piece of ripoff as ligimate software. After the real estate hogging installation, I was presented with a very impressive but confusing interface that attempted to be trendy and hi-tec. Instead of the friendly and comforting Windows interface (hey, at least give us the three familiar three little buttons on the upper right hand corner to minimize and close!?) I have to 'discover' the close button at the lower right hand corner of this blue-on-blue interface. What finally got me to uninstall the program faster than trying to get rid of the plague was the fact that no where did it mention that I could only rip TWENTY songs before I have to shell out another $19 bucks for what they called an upgrade!!! Yea, UPGRADE. I call that as a very underhanded, very sly and unethical way of getting more of our hard-earned money just so we could use the software. No thank you! No where on the outside of the box mentioned the 20 song encoding limit... in fact, in it's description, it mentioned the word UNLIMITED conversion of music! It wouldn't even earn the honor of being shelved with the rest of my software library. The circular file it went. There are a lot more shareware and freeware out there that would do a very decent job without trying to pull a fast one on us. Look elsewhere and pass this one by! Don't even bother with their diamond, gold and platinum or whatever editions if that is their business ethic.
Complete waste of money July 2, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I installed this program and it just sat there on my screen like a Windows .BMP file. Clicking on any of the controls did nothing, and it locked up my PC! I deleted the program and reinstalled it again. Same result. I contacted the manufacturer, but they were no help at all (left message, sent email, no response). I finally returned the software to Office Depot where I bought it. They gave me a hard time, because the shrinkwrap was gone, but after they tried installing it themselves, they agreed that the CD was best suited for a coaster and refunded my money. Would have rated it zero stars if Amazon let me.
 I can't believe my eyes (ears..) August 11, 2000
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
When I first use this software, I thought it was just another MP3 encoder with a pretty skin. Then the next day I found out that I can burn a CD directly from this program. A friend of mine tried out this program as well and he told me that this program includes a professional audio editing feature that normally would cost a lot of money. I personally don't mess around with audio editing but I may one day convert and digitize all my old tapes (which I proudly owned)to MP3 files. Also I must say that Magix's service is pretty good. I have no problem speaking with a support staff and questions were patiently answered. I asked them about the cross file conversion function and it was explained to me in simple term. I found out that Magix has a dozen other products mostly music and streaming media related. It is good to know that you can later upgrade to something else. Overall, it is well worth the $29 I spent.
 Good stuff for the moeny May 29, 2000
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I actually liked the MP3 Maker because it does a lot for the money. Ya get 2 encoder (one is limited to 20 encodings wot sux) but there is still another encoder for free. Ya can rip CD's and burn them direct to CD. Comes wif 2 players to mix MP3's. Bad part: needed patch to actually translate the program into english. Good part: Lot's of features for the money
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