Easy CD Creator

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Adaptec Easy CD Creator is a CD authoring program bundled with many early CD writers.

It was part of a suite often just known as Adaptec Easy CD Creator, which consisted of:

• CD Creator itself.
• A CD copying program.
• DirectCD, a packet writing program.
• Various other utilities, including the CD Spin Doctor program for recording analog audio sources to CD.

Easy CD Creator was originally developed by Incat Systems srl in Milan, Italy, whose owner, Fabrizio Caffarelli (now CEO of TVBLOB srl), moved the company to the US in late 1993, forming a US corporation (Incat Systems Software) headquartered in Campbell, CA. In August, 1995, Adaptec purchased the company (taking on most of the US-based staff) and the Easy CD family of software.

On June 26, 1996, Adaptec purchased "Corel CD Creator" from Corel Corp. for a $12 million cash transaction. Adaptec then merged CD Creator's wizard driven GUI interface, and Easy CD Pro's burning engine to create "Easy CD Creator". Soon after, Adaptec also purchased the Toast family of Macintosh CD recording software from its creator/founder, Markus Fest (later founder of Elgato). All of these products were managed by the Adaptec Software Products Group (Adaptec SPG).

On May 11, 2001, Easy CD Creator changed ownership after Adaptec spun off SPG to create a newly formed, independent company called Roxio. On August 9, 2004, Easy CD Creator (now known as "Easy Media Creator") changed ownership a second time after Roxio sold its consumer software division and its name and identity ("Roxio") to Sonic Solutions for $80 million. "Roxio" became Napster (having bought the name and other odds and ends of the Napster brand at auction) to focus on its online music service.

Easy CD Creator versions 3 and 4 were under the Adaptec brand, and are supported on systems running Microsoft Windows versions up to Windows 2000, but not Windows XP. Version 5 did support Windows XP only after the 5.1 patch was applied. By version 6, the product was now named "Easy CD & DVD Creator" which included a new burning engine, code named "Dragon" which was used in the CD Copier portion of the software suite.

The current version 9.x is called Easy Media Creator.