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When it's ease of use that you
need when creating most small multimedia projects, Power2Go 3 has it in
spades. This program allows for most duplications to occur within a drag and
drop it type interface that will make using Power2Go easy and more importantly
fun to use.
I carry a lot of my music on my
iPod so usually use iTunes to encode my music to MP3, however for those of you
who don't have one and might have a conventional player (poor fools!), or just
like to store your music on your hard drive to listen to as you work on your
PC, you can convert your music to mp3 or wma files with ease and convenience,
choosing audio quality so you decide how good your tunes sound. Normally I
encode at about 192 kbps (kilobytes per second).
For those of you making backups
of favourite movies or music you can use Power2Go to quickly and effectively
duplicate non protected DVDs and conventional music CDs. Simply Select the
media that you need to copy and drag it over to the corresponding box on the
desktop for simplistic duplication. This software will not allow you to back
up your DVD movies that are software protected. It is primarily intended for
those who are making backups of home movies etc.
Those with smaller hard disk
drives are going to appreciate this drag and drop functionality which allows
for burning on the fly. There is the facility for after a copy is completed to
erase the data from CDRWs making them ready for use again. As a side note,
though slightly related to this review, be aware that with poor quality CDRWs
that you can sometimes have distortion with audio recordings which is actually
the older data on the CD which is still there. It's always best to back up
your purchased music CDs onto plain CDR discs for a one time burn. I'd really
recommend that you just convert them to mp3 so you can store a number of
albums on the one CD. Many new players in cars etc have the facility to play
mp3s now.
Installation is simple on this
software as is the case with most CyberLink products that I've been fortunate
enough to have covered over the last few years and should only take a few
minutes. In the testing that we undertook, there were no clicks or pops that
you would sometimes associate with a copy. It was pretty much perfect. Add to
that the fact that the interface also lets you select only the tracks that you
wish to duplicate.
I would suggest to you that
before undertaking big projects that you fully defragment your hard disk and
get rid of all unessential files off your system in order to have your
computer in the best possible shape to undertake this task. I have no problems
in recommending this software to your users who wish for a hassle free time
when making basic duplications of products that you already own. The only
thing missing from this package is a CD label maker which would have only been
an afterthought anyway. Recommended piece of kit. | 
