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Copy & Convert (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Roxio
Category: Software
List Price: £19.99
Buy New: £13.77
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Rating:  10 reviews
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp, Windows Xp Professional
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers.
MPN: 233300EU
UPC: 815227007585
EAN: 0815227007585
ASIN: B000OLTYIO
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
With Roxio Copy convert movies and music directly to PSP, iPod or Windows Media devicesCreate custom labels for your DVDs and CDs ...
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 Counter-intuitive but cheap & does the biz August 2, 2007
Mr. F. L. Dunkin Wedd
35 out of 38 found this review helpful
Those who are familiar with Roxio stuff (my Dell came with Roxio CD and DVD players/burners) will be used to the, erm... colourful interface (not to say lary and tasteless). Copy & Convert has no manual (I like a paper manual, me) and it's not the most intuitive either. First impressions were not good. On trying to install I got this:
"Error 1720. There is a problem with the Windows Installer package. A script required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor."
What does the manual tell me about this? Oh - duh - there isn't one. Oh well, go to the Roxio home page. Stap me vitals: Copy & Convert wasn't even listed under 'Products' (though it is now). OK. Time for a Google hunt. Google found me a link in the Roxio forum, I installed Windows Script from Microsoft and thereafter all went fine. (Google `roxio error 1720')
Copy & Convert rips audio and several other helpful things: but if you are like me, you already have several better programs to do all that, and the main use is going to be converting DVDs. Copying is straightforward and quick enough - though slower than the Roxio Creator LE (Dell edition) I already had. Converting? As it took me ages to figure out, I hope you'll forgive this long example:
- Open up the main menu, and you first get an advert for other Roxio software. (Adverts? - But I've already paid.)
- Click on Convert Video and the main menu disappears. Darn it, it's crashed. No - hang on: wait a bit and it gets replaced (after another accident in a paint shop) by Roxio Disc Copier. Yes, despite the name, this is where you convert your DVDs to a variety of formats including DivX and wmv.
- Start by clicking on ADD MOVIES (- why?) to get the file selector.
- Choose the one to convert.(At this stage you can also compile a video from several different sources. Don't expect any complex editing though: you can cut clips from a long film, and then edit them together using compile. This works very well, but it's pretty crude stuff.)
- Now on the right hand side you have to choose
i) the output format;
ii) whether to output to a disc image, a file or a portable player.
Clicking on OPTIONS is liable to blind you with science: I don't recommend it. Then you have to click on BURN (yes, even if you're not making a disc). If you're making a file, you get to choose the destination - but hold tight: where do I choose the file name?
Back to the disc copier screen and click on ABC (why?) change the name, now go back to BURN and choose the destination.
While it works, you'll have time to go and make a cup of tea. In fact you may like to try THIS method: book a plane ticket, fly to India, plant a bush, wait for it to grow to maturity, pull off the tips, dry them, fly them home and make your tea. Be sure to let it brew for at least four minutes...
No: Copy and Convert is not the fastest thing in the world. To convert a 2-hour DVD to .wmv you might want to leave it overnight. A 2 hour DVD to wmv takes 15 hours - but these are big files: I'm guessing the same might apply to other similar software. Give up any idea of surfing the net, or typing a word doc while it works (unless you have a dual core). Copy and Convert wants your computer. ALL of it. It wants your computer like the Daleks want Earth: sharing is not an option.
Pros:
It does what it says
Straight from DVD to file - no faffing about with rippers and encoders
It's twenty quid!
Cons:
The interface - yuck!
It's not very intuitive
And where's the manual?
It's power-hungry. It's slooowww...
So in summary: once you get used to its idiosyncracies, it does the job perfectly. And it's fab value for money. Shareware would cost as much - and probably infect your PC with malware into the bargain.
Four stars then, once you get the hang of it.
And, finally, if you're hoping to copy commercial videos, it won't let you. That would be piracy.
 Just what I needed August 27, 2007
Mr. R. F. Shurvinton (Warwickshire, England)
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
This cracking piece of software is just what I was looking for to be able to 'batch convert' my stash of WAV music files on my hard drive to MP3 format.
Basically, if (like me) you have transferred an awfull lot of your music cd's to your hard drive in WAV format to be able to play on your computer, and you don't want to repeat the process again to copy them as MP3, then this lovely piece of software will let you convert all the tracks on your hard drive from WAV to MP3, with the ability to chose the MP3 quality you wish to save them in (the conversion bit rate, or sampling rate).
You can select which tracks to convert, and from which formats and to which formats. Obviously the more tracks at one time you chose to convert, the longer the process.
You can also use it to copy tracks from cd's to your hard drive, again with the capability of chosing which format to save them in.
Also there is the option to make your own playlists and burn them to a cd.
If you are only interested messing around with your music, then this seems to me to be a far better purchase from a value aspect than the 'full fat' Media Creator 9.
 Unimpressed! November 1, 2007
Peter Jackson (Perpignan, France)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
One of the worst pieces of software I have bought in the last few years. It was slow to install and the registration would not work with the Roxio site. Once installed it was very slow and crashed frequently, both when dealing with DVD and with CD conversions. I could not recommend this software to anyone, based on what I have experienced. I have subsequently uninstalled the software and bought a different product, which does work.
Good value and copies DVDs quickly! July 31, 2007
M. Livingston (Sheffield, UK)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
If all you want is a copy suite to back up your CDs and DVDs etc then save yourself some money by buying this in place of the full Roxio Easy Media Suite. It offers all the functionality you need. My one criticism would be that the menus within this product are hard to find at times - even when you really know what you're doing. Would I go for this product or Nero? Well, this one at the price.
Bad Press March 31, 2008
Marcus (UK)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I need to improve the ratings of this piece of software because it's actually very good.
I accept that the documentation is weak, but if a little time is taken to research the product on the internet you will find plenty of the answers regarding navigation of the interface and tips on usage. Yes, I know you shouldn't have to do this but its 15 software and it punches well above its weight with products costing 3 times as much.
If you own and Archos player get this to store your DVD's in DivX. If you own a pod then the conversion of audio and video is very impressive.
It has handled everything I've thrown at it and I would thoroughly recommend it. Give it a chance
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