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Adaptec's $99 Easy CD Creator 4 Deluxe, the latest incarnation of the popular CD-writing software, adds a raft of new and useful features. Take Two, a disaster-recovery utility, creates a compressed image of your hard drive over multiple discs for fast restoration after a hard drive crash. On the music front, the program can convert files in the popular MP3 format to standard music CDs, and the improved jewel-case insert and CD label designer includes predesigned templates. Adaptec has also enhanced the video and audio editing abilities (for example, you can cross-fade between CD tracks just like a professional DJ). But the neatest new feature in my preproduction copy was the ability to use the CDDB music database to get artist, title, and timing information off the Internet, so I could automatically create on-screen playlists and jewel-case inserts for my compilation CDs.