Cd Library and Gamedrive Cd / Dvd Emulator Software for Windows

GameDrive CD / DVD Emulator
$19.99 - FarStone Technology

Protect your discs against loss, theft, and damage, and get superior performance while you're at it! GameDrive 10 CD/DVD emulator copies CDs and unprotected DVDs as "virtual CDs" -- MP3-like files that you can play in place of physical discs. These virtual CDs run directly on your hard drive, saving wear and tear on your CD-ROM drive and extending the battery life of laptop computers. They can be shared over a network and stored and transported on a laptop computer or USB device. As a bonus, they have access rates nearly 200 times faster than physical CDs, greatly accelerating the performance of PC games. Pre-load up to 23 virtual CDs and swap them out via hot keys for a seamless transition between volumes of a game. GameDrive 10 has some of the best game support in the industry and runs on both 64-bit and 32-bit systems. Wizards make it a snap to create your virtual discs and manage them in a searchable virtual CD library. Now with 64-bit support!

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Amazing MP3 Creator
$24.99 - www.amazing-online.com

Key Features:

1.Combination of fully functional CD ripper and WAV files encoder.
2.Full CD-ROM controlling and Multiple CD-ROM support:
You can control the CD-ROM speed and rip method of each of your CD-ROMs on your computer.Amazing MP3 Creator also provide "Jitter correction" function to perform high qualitiy audio files from your music CD.
3.Multiple encoding formats Support:
Amazing MP3 Creator supports WAV,MP3 ( MPEG audio layer3 ),WMA ( Windows Media Audio ) and Ogg vorbis format.Amazing MP3 user Creator also supports multiple bitrate and VBR ,ABR and CBR encoding methods.
4.Segment ripping:
Amazing MP3 Creator can rip and encode multiple tracks as a single track, or just a section of a single track.
5.ASPI and WindowsNT/2000/XP native interface Support.
6.ID3 v1 and v2 Support.
7.Free CDDB Support.
8.Fully functional Audio CD and WAV file play back support.
9.User-friendly and cool interface.
10.Multithreaded.
11.Automatically rename output files.
12.Local CD Library.

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VirtualDrive
$24.99 - FarStone Technology

Protect your discs against loss, theft, and damage, and get superior performance while you're at it! VirtualDrive 10 CD/DVD emulator copies CDs and unprotected DVDs as "virtual CDs" -- MP3-like files that you can play in place of physical discs. Virtual CDs run directly on your hard drive, saving wear and tear on your CD-ROM drive and extending the battery life of laptop computers. They can be shared over a network, and have access rates nearly 200 times faster than physical CDs, greatly accelerating the performance of PC games, photo CDs, and disc-based applications. Pre-load up to 23 virtual CDs and swap them out via hot keys for a seamless transition between volumes of a game, or make a single custom virtual CD out of a multi-disc CD set. VirtualDrive 10 has some of the best game support in the industry, and runs on both 64-bit and 32-bit systems. Its simple, user-friendly GUI lets you easily create virtual discs out of your PC games and disc-based applications, and manage them in a searchable virtual CD library.

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Emsa DiskCheck
$0 - EMSA SYSTEMS LTD

Emsa Disk Check is a dual-purpose utility, for disk checking (prescan and full disk reading) and also benchmarking. What it does, is scanning/reading the entire contents of a disk (CD, DVD or hard drive; or even floppy) and show any read errors that may appear, but also show drive speed information, progress statistics etc. It was designed with simplicity in mind, but usefulness for the user.
You can use it to do a full check of the surface of any disks, for example if you have just scratched a disk and want to see if it is still readable, or if you want to check all your cd library for time or usage related faults. You can also use it for drive benchmarking, easily comparing speeds through 'X' speed multiplier factor, in real conditions. You can also scan hard drives or even floppies - and get real condition performance information accordingly with drive performance but also with the way data is stored on it, which obviously impacts on overall performance. Make sur you clean the CD or DVD before doing tests, to remove dirt and ensure tests are accurate. Freeware.

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Music Catalogue Master
$22.95 - KIX Software Solutions

Music Catalogue Master catalogs CDs and vinyl records into a fully searchable database. It automatically enters CDs and records via an internet connection. It downloads and enters all the available CD, vinyl record and track information into its database - including artist name, title, label, release year - all track titles, artists and times as well as roles/credits, and much more!

You can create as many user-defined tracking categories as you want, and attach as many of these as you want to any CD, record or track. Query by these categories and print a list of CDs, record or tracks that you have tagged with a category.

For collectors who wish to track multiple copies of the same recording - there is a whole separate area for copy information, like purchase price and current value.

Music Catalogue Master also allows you to track chart information for all CDs, records and tracks - where they entered the chart and where they peaked.

With its powerful querying capabilities, you can display and print any CDs, records or tracks that you want, based on any search criteria that you enter - and print a report or export the query results to HTML or create PDF documents.

Music Catalogue Master has an intuitive interface and many shortcuts to enable you to quickly enter and format information. It is easy to move around and find the information that you want to display and print. It also comes with complete online Help, including tutorials, as well as a downloadable printable manual.

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Paragon CD-ROM Emulator Personal
$29.95 - Paragon Software Group

Paragon CD-ROM Emulator enables every user to play CDs and DVDs without needing the physical discs. You can get up to 23 virtual CD/DVD-ROM drives and unlimited number of virtual CDs/DVDs. Create the images of all needed discs and work with several Audio, Video, Game, Data etc. CDs or DVDs simultaneously. Virtual CDs are just files on your hard disk - no possibility to loose, no dust, no scratches or rifts, no need to search for necessary CD title. You can also use virtual CDs and virtual drives via the network Exceed performance of physical CD/DVD-ROM - the reading speed of a virtual drive is 200x. CD-ROM Emulator supports normal CD, DVD, and CD RAW subchannel reading methods, ignoring bad blocks, for emulation any CDs. In this version available possibility of organization your virtual CDs/DVDs in folders so you can manage all your media files effectively. Create virtual libraries with your favorite music, games, video etc. and enjoy your leisure! CD-ROM Emulator supports up to 99 audio or great number of MP3 tracks per virtual CD. For your convenience we added built-in burner and eraser in last version which enable you to copy CDs/DVDs to CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD-RW without help of any other software. Manage all your CDs/DVDs with just few mouse clicks! How it works: Just install the program on your system. Quick start menu will appear in the system tray. The program consists of wizards (Grab, Burn, Constract, Erase and Find wizards) and devices (Drive Manager). Virtual drives are dynamically created and mounted. Now, using Grab and Find wizards you can easily organize a whole CD-based library with 10-times faster performance. Construct and Burn wizards allow you to create your own CD-images, which can be either used with virtual drives or burned on CD-R/RW with the in-built ISO burner.

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