1 stars (They know its bad. They'll just try to con you.) - I have an older version of MP3 Maker Gold. When I tried to resample something from 44100 to 22050, it cut the playback rate in half, i.e. it ran at half speed. I have other software that resamples it at the correct speed.
I contacted technical support and they said cutting the playback rate was the correct thing to do. They continued to tell me that I shouldn't be using 22050, but should use 44100. They would never deal with the issue.
This is like a contractor building a house, and part of the floor caves in. They then tell the inhabitants not to walk there and everything will be ok.
Trashy product, trashy company.
1 stars (Very Buggy) - Ugh. Well, not to sound too negative, let me start with a few positives:
1. It's pretty fast at ripping CDs.
2. The audio effects during playback are kind of fun to play with.
3. As far as I know, the CD burning component works fine; I didn't test that out at all.
4. Um, the install went smoothly?
But for me, they're vastly overshadowed by the negatives:
1. The quality of ripped mp3s is uneven--some tracks have enough defects to be completely unlistenable.
2. It doesn't offer many options for ripping CDs, compared to many freeware programs.
3. It simply refuses to rip some CDs (without even giving notification that it failed), which can be ripped with no problem by WMP, iTunes, or CDex.
4. It crashed when trying to rip some CDs, again which were no problem for other programs.
5. Its help program crashed immediately on startup.
6. It crashed when trying to import some songs into a playlist; you don't have to ask if other programs had any problems with the songs, do you?
7. The visualizer isn't resizeable; you get either tiny or fullscreen, and the fullscreen mode runs at about a frame every two seconds.
8. The music editor doesn't seem to allow mixing multiple tracks, beyond a simple crossfade. Boo!
9. The music editor's copy and paste commands don't work the same with all sounds, with no explanation--on my imported songs, it would not let me copy or paste anything.
10. If you quit the program and tell it to save the current playlist, and if it's unable to save some part of the playlist, then it just quits without saving anything (or giving you a chance to fix the problems).
11. Wait a second, the install didn't go smoothly! The program installed itself into "c:\Magix\", without asking if I had somewhere less conspicuous in mind. If all my software did that, I'd never find anything on my computer.
12. The uninstall didn't seem to remove anything from my hard drive, which did have the upside of allowing me to delete that wretched "c:\Magix\" folder myself.
Seriously, folks, this is bad, bad software.
1 stars (Not worth the CD it's on) - This is the second MAGIX product I have purchased recently. The first one was the MAGIX DVD maker which I returned after finding out that all the error messages were in German and the program crashed my very stable computer every time I used it. The MAGIX MP3 Maker isn't much better. The user interface is probably the worst I have come across. You have to think like the morons who wrote it to make it work --sometimes. Help is just a copy of the same useless users guide, which tells you what each icon is supposed to do and that's about it. I am amazed that such companies even exist putting out garbage like this and getting paid for it too. |
