PhotoShow Deluxe 4
Manage, edit and share your photos and videos in slide shows. Post them free on their website. Now burns DVDs and many other new features in version 4. Nice program, easy to use. Not quite as powerful as ProShow Gold but costs less. Add included frames, animations and music selections or provide your own MP3 music selections. Compare the Express free version and the Deluxe version. More animation packages available for purchase.

ProShow Gold 3
This is probably the most full-featured slide show software available and only slightly more complicated than PhotoShow. Has "Ken Burns" motion effects which allows you to pan, zoom and rotate images for a really dynamic and professional looking presentation. Lots of transitions and timing options. Music can automatically sync with the slide show. Many output choices including burning DVDs, VCDs, .exe files, burn multiple shows to one disk with Menu for use with DVD remote control, create streaming shows that play from within a web page, and lots more! PhotoShow GOLD features listed here.

Picasa from Google organizes, edits and makes slide shows and it's FREE!

PhotoStory 3 Free software from Microsoft for Windows XP

Convert your Music CDs to MP 3 for use in slideshows with these programs

FairStars CD Ripper 1.15 Free! A top choice with lots of features

AV MP3 Player Morpher 3.0.16 Free! Plays CDs, changes music, rips CDs and burns CDs, creates covers and labels too

Ashampoo Music Studio 3 $30. This program always been a favorite of digital music fans and the latest version now includes everything you need to create, edit and manage your digital music collection. And using it is nearly as simple as operating a CD player

Ashampoo M3 Audio Center $25. Your personal control center for extracting, burning, converting, editing and repairing of MP3 and other audio files! In the great tradition of Ashampoo software, this multimedia and CD burning application is really easy to use!

Easy CD-DA Extractor $30
the "Swiss Army Knife of Digital Audio" is 4-in-1 software that rips Audio CDs, converts music files, and burns Audio CDs, MP3 CDs, WMA CDs, and Data CDs. Supports all popular audio file formats.

This is one of the best applications for "ripping" music tracks from CDs. "Ripping" means converting music CDs or individual songs to MP3 format so they can be used for slide shows, played in an MP3 player or on the computer. Just put your music CD in and then set a few parameters and click "copy" and it copies the music to your hard drive. You can make compilation CDs also. Read all the things it does on their site.

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