There are a few bugs, for one I clicked 'Rescan Folder Tree' on the left without a folder selected and the program summarily crashed. Work out the bugs and pull the whole thing into this decade and it'll be a deal worth considering. Uninstalled with Revo Uninstaller which found a few remnants in the registry pertaining to file extension associations. But just as the program they're mostly outdated and often list XP as the highest OS. I do have to compliment Zortam for their genuine awards and reviews on their site. What makes it really a miss for me is the fact that it crashed on me a few times for no real apparent reason (bug mentioned above is the only reproducible one on my system). There's no support for more modern file types and don't forget the very intrusive autorun entry. If this was 2002 then it would have been a fairly good program but now it just looks and feels out-dated and clunky and it's certainly not as cool as a DeLorean with a Fluxcapacitor. The overall impression I get from Zortam Mp3 Media Studio is like stepping into a timemachine. I'm not at all happy with the player, it's an awkward, outdated looking thing. Some actions are counterintuitive, if a file doesn't exist anymore it still shows up in the list after restart but right-clicking does nothing, again the whole folder tree has to be rescanned. For manual editing it works just fine and you can create your own filters to extract tags from file names. Not all that thrilled about their online database. Some hits but mostly misses, especially on the older or lesser known ones like Marvin Gaye or Dark Moor. To be on the safe side I copied ~50 MP3's (Fear Factory, Jimi Hendrix, Orbital, Pearl Jam etc.) into a separate folder and rebuild the library, which was time-consuming as the entire folder tree gets rescanned and there's no option to add files manually. It will only eat your disk space and as far as I'm concerned it serves no practical everyday use anymore, not even for burning CD's. The MP3 to WAV (lossy to lossless) convert option is pointless, it won't increase the quality one iota. It's all in the name today because none of my flac, ogg or wav files are in the list. Scanning for the ~6500 mp3 files in my collection took about 10 minutes, not exactly fast (MusicBee did that under 3 minutes). So I'll give them some benefit of the doubt about their programming skills but it certainly does need better error handling. I must add that Zortram has it's HQ on the Seychelles which is predominantly French-speaking and I'm guessing this English translation was made by an outsider (they're asking for translators). It does also have typo's (neither > niether) but I make those too. It's arranged in a familiar way but no drag and drop support! Well, only for the player on the right. No skinning options so it will have to do I guess. That's one clunky, old-skool GUI Zortam Mp3 Media Studio has. This can be disabled under preferences later but it's not at all decent to do so without letting the user even know! If it wants a thumbs up it better rock my world from now on. I must mention that Scotty started yapping, Zortam Mp3 Media Studio silently adds an autorun entry on installation. Well, like I said, installed and registered just fine on Win 7 64-bit.
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