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David Ray wrote:
> 
> Mike,
> 
>    I must have missed it -- the first rate engineering.  I think EZ CD
> Creator, while an "okay" product, is not that well done for a company that
> has the money to do the job right.  

In part because of ignorance, I don't want to address this. I will point
out that this is a new component of Adaptec and that whatever the
corporate resources, this s/w development functions on its own budget
with its own staff, etc. We are not dealing here with Microsoft putting
its resources behind a major software relase; of course, we're also not
dealing with Jeff working his wonders in his garage (or wherever).

> True, the burns are decent.

Indeed, a gracious admission.

Seriously, the burn engine is robust, a property no other product can
offer. Yes, one must set up one's system correctly. No, the most
advanced functions are not facilitated, but the product is engineered
extremely well for its purpose.

> But I find the user interface to be clumsy and amateurish.

Far from ideal in some respects - I too have taken them to task for
'hiding' functions that should be visible. However, IMHO it is both
superior to its antecedents and clearly evolving toward a fully
satisfactory design.

> Wave editing should be built in; but the wave editing capabilities supplied with ECDC are
> inflexible and plain buggy (often, after spending some time working with a
> wave you get a GP).

I have not had that experience - but, then, I haven't had much luck
using the WAV editors in other authoring programs. There is an argument
that one should give the editor the power of, say, CoolEdit. Another
says it shouldn't be there at all. If you don't like Adaptec's option, I
suspect that it will be killed before it would be beefed up as much as
you are suggesting.

And I haven't found the competition's Spin Doctor implementation better
than Adaptec's  - probably because I haven't found the competition's
Spin Doctor. I.e., 'It doesn't split the tracks where I wsih'; 'It takes
too much HD space'; etc. do not apply where the function is missing
altogether.

> Well, I'm not going to go on about it, but I don't
> find Adaptec's work on ECDC to be anything exceptional....

Good luck finding something better - especially find something you would
recommend to a newbie in CD-R.

Mike


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