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Sign up here. Nero 9 Free The free version of Nero's burning suite caught us by surprise - Nero 9 Free is an excellent disc burner, but its limitations are many Jon L.

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Windows Internet Explorer 6. DirectX 9. Nero's SmartStart simplifies file quality with three choices: Small file size, Medium quality, and High quality, the last of which turned out to be kilobits per second. The same task took seconds using iTunes 8, and just using Windows Media Player So music ripping isn't exactly a compelling reason to buy either of the suites. I decided I wanted to play my newly ripped music. From the home interface, I figured Home Entertainment tab's Play audio choice was the ticket, and this launched the compact, pleasingly designed ShowTime media player, which displayed the album cover image.

The player worked as well as any of the free ones out there, but you don't get visualizations—swirly screen displays—like the ones in iTunes or Winamp.

Nero burned my hour of test music in minutes, using a 40x CD-R burner, and Roxio burned it in a faster By comparison, Windows Media Player took , while iTunes took only So, again, burning music CDs is not a compelling reason to spring for either Nero or Roxio's suite.

For editing audio, Nero offers two programs: WaveEditor for basic sound-file editing and effects and SoundTrax. It supports 8- to bit-rate audio. SoundTrax lets you create mix CDs as well as 5. It also features wizards for transferring recordings on old LPs or tapes, just as Roxio does. The software sequencer also let you create and insert clips from the SoundBox and ScratchBox tools, which offer lots of prefab audio content and customization.

Pretty cool. But Nero Live is only for the very patient, as it's pretty temperamental. A Windows Vista sidebar gadget is available for mini-TV display, but you have to launch ControlCenter and request an update to get this tool, and it wasn't yet available at the time of my testing.

A simple setup asks for your language, screen aspect ratio or , clipping area, and font size for onscreen menus. Then it scans your tuner for channels. While scanning, it displays an ad for the company's LiquidTV product, which takes advantage of the TiVo service. My setup of Nero Live wasn't without difficulties. When I finally got some over-the-air digital channels through an amplified antenna, reliability was spotty, and I had to reboot the PC a few times after losing the ability to view shows.

The software let me time-shift shows pause, fast forward, and so on , but it just wasn't as simple an experience as that available from Windows Media Center. I was also annoyed by the noticeable delays between every action. What's more, there's no help accessible from within the Nero Live interface.

Live is a cool idea, but it's clearly an early version of the software. Its Edit button takes you to the full Nero PhotoSnap, which lets you do things like fix red eyes, crop, lens distortion. But Roxio's PhotoSuite goes beyond the Nero editor, with blemish and wrinkle removal, its Mobile Photo Doctor, and choices for frames, mattes, and drawing tools.

What's more, Nero 9's red-eye fixer was pretty useless in my testing. Roxio's helps you through the process, and even had a red-eye autofix that worked surprisingly well.

Even the free Windows Live Photo Gallery does a far better job, and Picasa's is amazing, automatically finding and fixing all eyes in an image. Roxio also lets you keep more than one photo open at a time, so I'd have to say that it beats Nero in the photo department, though I also think you can find pretty workable image editors out there for free, such as the online editor in Photobucket, the free Picasa app, or Mac OS X's iPhoto.

And those editors let you easily share your pictures online as well. Picasa, I should note, one-ups either suite, with its support for camera raw files. Another Nero app that has no equivalent in the competing Roxio suite is its RescueAgent file recovery tool.

This can come in handy for those "oops" moments, when you've accidentally deleted something you still want. But don't be fooled by Nero StartSmart's "Back Up" tab choice, which simply leads to disc burning and this recovery app.

If you want actual automated backup, you need to choose SmartStart's left-column tab labeled "Autobackup. Nero RescueAgent starts by having you choose the lost file's location drive, then doing either a fast or a deep scan of it. The chosen drive can be any storage letter on your system—camera media, CD, DVD—not just a hard drive.

In my test, a fast scan of GB drive took less than a minute and found recovery candidate files. But I had to forage through lots of system files in the results to find what I wanted. And during one test recovery, the progress bar wasn't very helpful: It showed percent overall task completion, which obviously isn't possible.

Another problem with RescueAgent is that its help file isn't compatible with Windows Vista. Still, this is a nice extra, and one of those things that has to save your bacon only once for it to be worth the price of purchase. Though Nero has an active online media-sharing community—MyNero. In fact, nowhere in the Nero suite could I find a choice for sharing my new creations online. But the Roxio online service is really just a place to store your slideshows and videos, not a true sharing community like MyNero.