It doesn't take much effort to build a large collection of digital photos, music and video files. Managing it? That's not always so straightforward. Photos go missing, it's difficult to process or share them, music files don't always work with your MP3 player: there are all kinds of potential problems. But if your current applications can't cope, then you could always try installing the Ashampoo Multimedia Pack 1: it's a one-stop solution for just about all your multimedia needs.

At the heart of the suite is Ashampoo Photo Commander 5. This lets you browse and your digital photo collection, then use them to create calendars, collages, web albums and more. You're able to build slideshows with custom music and stylish transition effects. And the program can also manage video and audio files, for example building M2U and MFA playlists in a couple of clicks.

The Multimedia Pack also includes Ashampoo Magical Snap, a powerful screen grab tool. It helps you grab complete screens, individual windows or user-defined areas, take multiple snapshots in one session, edit your images, annotate them and more. If you're more used to PrtSc then this could save you hours.

Ashampoo Music Studio 2007 caters for your audio needs, converting between common file formats, normalising a group of files to ensure they have the same volume, editing tags, even trying to repair broken audio files. (Note that the program reads, but won't write MP3s, so most functions require WMA, OGG, FLAC or WAV files.)

And the collection is completed by Ashampoo Burning Studio 6. It's one of the easiest ways to create data discs, burn or rip music and movies, or back up your multimedia files, and CD, DVD and Blu-ray media are supported.

Move to the latest version of the Ashampoo Multimedia Pack and you'll gain full support for MP3 files, including file conversions, editing tags, creating MP3 CDs and more. Burning Studio 7 can create video DVDs from your WMV, AVI and MPEG files with the minimum of effort. Photo Commander 6 now has one-click tools to correct colour, contrast, red-eye and other common photo problems, while the new Ashampoo Movie Shrink & Burn 3 quickly resizes and converts your digital videos with very high quality results.