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Xbox Music Mixer does so many cool things for so few dollars

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 25
Date: November 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the best holiday value you can find for any game console. Plus, it's fun for the WHOLE FAMILY, not just the "hardcore gamers" in the house. With a digital music player, Karaoke, 35000 downloadable songs, 2D and 3D lightshows, ability to record YOUR performances, and - best of all - technology to connect to your PC to get at your library of music and DIGITAL PHOTOS, it seems like this has hit all. My family has had a blast with it already. Hope yours does too.

Who cares about the game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: April 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the worst games ever released for xbox, but thats not the point, the point to buy this game is that its the only way to transfer music and videos to you xbox without hacking it. So this is definately a primo choice for only 9 bucks. So if you want to transfer files to your xbox this is your one and only choice w/ out voiding your warrenty. Definate a worthy buy.

goose

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

!best thing ever, buy it, so good!, now i can listen to music on my xbox....unlike before......

XBOX Music Mixer: The Best Accessory for XBOX!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: July 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is definately the best accessory for the XBOX! You can sing karaoke, play music, display your pictures in a slide show, and create raves! My favorite one is karaoke because my family always have a good time with it (and I as well). Make sure you have over 14,000 blocks on your XBOX hard drive! If you have an XBOX, GET THIS MUSIC MIXER TODAY!

How to make the Xbox great for me

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is awesome, at last something I can do with the Xbox sat in my living room.

Flawed

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: December 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Yet again the Xbox's great hardware is underutilized because of shoddy software. But unlike the spotty lineup of games now its the Music Mixer which had the potential to be a useful utility for the Xbox.

The main problem seems to be that the people who designed this spent more time making "hip" visualizations of raves, then they did on the main reason people bought this: the ability to take your MP3 collection and put it on your Xbox.

The software that you download to your PC is not well thought out at all. First, you cannot select whole folders of songs (also known as Albums). So one spends a ridiculous amount of time trying to select each song. Then to add insult to injury not only do you have to select the files individually but the default folder keeps shifting back to one of those Operating System folders that Microsoft assumes you put your music in but noone does. The result ends up being neverending repetitive tasks.
Also the total amount you can transfer at one time is 100 songs, which isnt really a big deal because the software dumps the whole mess of songs into a giant master folder in the Xbox which you must sort ALL of your files again or send them in little batches. Either way prepare to spend something like a day of muttered curses if you plan to transfer your music.

Id save your money until they fix up this flashy but not really useful addition to the Xbox.

Not what you would think

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 16
Date: January 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

All the negative reviews...shame too...this is a great product to have FUN with. It might not be a great microphone or have a lot of songs but it has everything you need and more to have a good time.

Let me explain...

The microphone is not that great but it is good considering the price. Your not buying it for the microphone. Good Microphones don't come cheap but for the price this one is good.

The software itself is pretty freaking cool. It doesn't have a lot of songs for karaoke but you can strip the background off of the cd's you do have...and you can run this program without the disc so you can change CD's randomly without having to reload the program.

You can always buy Karaoke CD's from Wal-Mart or here at Amazon.com and use with it...it is cheap to do it that way and you can build an AWESOME collection of Karaoke CD's to use with this or on another CD player.

I paid 19.99 for mine and let me say for the price you can't beat it. I love it. I have used it more in the last few days than most of my games for X-Box.

Don't listen to those negative reviews, I am a musician (singer) and have been for most of my life. I tell you this product is worth it!

This thing will bust the house down!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: October 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This music processor has it all! It has 2D and 3D interactive and sound-sensing visualations, a function called rave mode, which consists of moving slides of real-world objects, a karaoke mode which utilizes CDs and actually strips out the vocals, and downloadable content from Xbox LIVE, Microsoft's national gaming arena. Only two things I do not like: besides content, there is not much to do on LIVE (no sharing songs, no voice communication), and secondly, the karaoke only supports lyrics for the premade songs, and there is no way of typing them in. Other than that, crank up the music and bring down the house...YOUR HOUSE!!!

NOT EVEN WORTH IT AT A FOURTH OF THE COST!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 17
Date: January 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

(Which it will likely be reduced to in the near future due to bad word of mouth.) Here's why: There are only fifteen songs (not very good ones) immediately available on the disc for karaoke. Additional songs cost around ten dollars for five measly tracks and must be purchased online, downloaded and then transferred to your Xbox via the software included. NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE WINDOWS XP AND MEDIAPLAYER 9 TO USE THIS SOFTWARE!!!!!! Same thing applies for transferring MP3s and digital photos. This restriction alone makes this thing pretty useless to a lot of Xbox owners right from the start. Based on other reviews, the process is a nightmare even if you can use the software! The 2D/3D visualizers are alright, but should come standard with the Xbox at this point and certainly aren't worth the purchase price alone. Hopefully Microsoft is taking notes and incorporates all of this pretty basic stuff into the next incarnation of Xbox and in a much more user friendly package.

A Decent Attempt

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: February 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this primarily for karaoke and playing music, and based on these two aspects alone, I felt was worthy of my 30 bucks. The software comes packed with 15 songs, and you can buy additional karaoke tracks online for $2 per song - which is a bit pricy, but they have a decent library of songs. Plus, you can strip the vocals of CDs and any mp3/wma's and sing along. The voice stripping technology is not perfect, you can still hear a little bit of the vocal, but it seems to do a very good job with most CDs I tried, though it does do a better job with cds than with mp3/wmas. The only thing is, the mic supplied with the software is of poor quality and you'll find your own voice barely audible when you record your performance. However, you can swap the mic out w/ either the xbox live headset or any mic w/ an quarter-inch jack. I have yet to try this myself and I imagine this could dramitically improve with a good mic - but again this adds cost to the whole package. The software supports two mic's and you can sing with a friend. I do agree with the other reviewers that the file transfer inferface is a bit clunky. However, if you are technologically up to date the win xp and windows media player requirement shouldn't be a problem. And as opposed to one of the previous reviewer, if your music files are tagged properly, when transfered to the xbox they are automatically sorted by artist, album, or genres. Plus, you can rip an audio cd directly onto the xbox harddrive. The thing that bothers me is the only file types supported are mp3 and wmas - which means none of the other formats nor any songs purchased from musicmatch or I-tones. Plus, you have to have the xbox on and music mixer loaded when transferring files from PC - so you have to have a crossover cable long enough to stretch from your computer to near your TV. If you can get pass that, the rest is very simple.

The xbox music mixer is the only software on the market that allows you to transfer music files from your PC onto the xbox - this is great for games that support custom soundtracks. Plus, the karaoke really is a blast, and you can program music or your own karaoke performace with RAVE visuals, and it also comes with a image viewer. It does have some flaws with its user interface and the included mic is low quality. But overall, for $30 or $35, this software really is worth the money.

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