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SoundConverter

SoundConverter

Convert your audio files in batch mode.

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PLEASE be fair to the developer for an excellent product

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Contributed by: eccparis Friday, September 10 2004 @ 02:39 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

at an excellent price! I am a classical musician by trade and have been extremely embarrassed to read various posts here that complain about the $10 licensing fee, when one considers how well this software does what it does plus the instant and most obliging tech support. For comparison: I have to spend (on this side of the Atlantic) more than $10 for two DAT tapes to use with my Sony walkman recorder, to tape live performances esp. on tour when a laptop is not an option or is less convenient. To me - and I daresay to anyone even remotely in the music business - paying $50 for five different licenses would be and is indeed a bargain.

Finally, I agree whole-heartedly with blueskyis_dotmac that "It's too bad a product that works so perfectly gets 1 star ratings due to a trivial $10 license fee." Such repeated ratings - sometimes by the same persons - simply do not reflect the true value of this godsend.   
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PLEASE be fair to the developer for an excellent product - Skep

The product does what it says it will do. I think that the problem a lot of people have with this product is that it is a GUI for open source apps that are free, but the developer doesn't give prominent credit for the hard work of the programmers who's work he relies on. The restrictive machine tied license is a further smack in the face to the open source roots. Ironically, the developer seems to be an open source developer himself, though not in the case of this product!!!!

I'd pay 10 bucks for this product for the functionality, but I have decided to forgo buying it on principle, as have many others. The developer is free to use ridiculous restrictions and we are free to say that heck no, we decline to buy your product on that basis. I'd like to put money in his pocket, but only if he comes to his senses. I think his sense of being dug in on this issue means that that will never happen.

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Friday, December 10 2004 @ 06:31 PM PST