p2pnet - rss feed: AudioTX trial frustrations
p2pnet.net news view:- A couple days a go, a friend of mine and I were chatting about things audio related and I happen to mention how it’d be neat if there were any way one could stream uncompressed audio over the internet, be it voice chat or broadcasting. He mentioned a program called AudioTX, which is designed for broadcasters and which allows you to do exactly what I described - stream an uncompressed audio stream out to a given destination if desired!
This program is designed for, say, a radio station news reporter who maybe wants to send a live news report back to the studio. Rather than having expensive leased lines to link the two sites together, the news reporter need only have a good internet connection, and AudioTx running on his computer. He’d then connect back to the studio computer, which would also be running audioTX, and bingo! a link is established and crisp audio can be sent back to the station and out over the air!
The program allows you to send streams in mpeg2, mpeg3, or even uncompressed if upstream bandwidth allows. First off I’ll say right now the program is very, very expensive, at $850! However they do have a trial version on their web site. So me being the experimenter that I am, I wanted to try this out with a friend of mine to see if it in fact was as good as they claim.
I downloaded an older version of this program found on my friend’s ftp server and was disappointed to discover that the very first time I executed the program, an error message popped up telling me that my 30 day demonstration period was over! I don’t know how in the world a program installer that was used on one machine at one point in time can be copied to another machine, executed, program installed, and then somehow know that the program’s 30 day period is up, when the program had never ever been used on the machine to which it was copied, ever!
No big deal, though I thought: I’ve seen this before with another piece of software I use. I’ll just go to the web site and download the latest and greatest trial version, and all should be good. So I uninstall the older version, download the latest trial, and install the latest trial.
When launching the program, the first thing you get is a box for your registration data. Of course, I dont have any data: I merely want to use the trial. So I click OK on that dialogue, and guess what happens? I get an error message stating that my 30 day demonstration period is over!
Excuse me, but how the hell is that possible? I uninstalled the older version that caused that error in the first place! Now I’m desperate to get this thing working, I mean after all I haven’t yet been able to begin day 1 of my trial, let alone day 30!
I uninstall the program, then dig in to the registry and delete every instance of audioTX I could find in there. I then reinstall AudioTX, and guess what? After clicking OK on the registration dialogue, I get the same crazy error message I’ve gotten the two previous times I attempted to run audioTX, telling me my 30 day demonstration period was over!
OK someone please explain to me how I unknowingly ran an older expired version of audioTX, uninstalled it, deleted all registry entries, installed the newest version that was modified not one week ago, and I’m still being told that my 30 day evaluation period is over? If I deleted all traces of the old version I ran, then what the hell is causing audioTX the new version to still report that my 30 day demo period, which has yet to begin, is over!
Oh. did I mention I sent the new installer to my friend who I want to test with, and it worked no problem for him? As he didn’t run an older version, he had no problem whereas I ran an older version of this software, and now I can’t seem to do anything to tell the system I want to truly start my 30 day trial with the new version!
To make matters worse, registration works alot like program such as jaws for Windows, where the program’s registration data is tied to the machine it’s installed on.
In other words, should you need to reformat your system, or make major hardware changes, guess what? You get to purchase another key!
It’s no wonder programs like this are being pirated. These companies truly want to punish consumers for making changes to their own computer system,
which the consumer has a right to do!
I can’t even run the trial of this program, and they actually would want me to shell out $850 just so I could use it on this one machine in it’s current hardware configuration only? How dare I want to upgrade my Ram or sound card later on! That’s crazy!
Sure I love the possibilities of this program, but why the hell do these companies have to be so restrictive! At this point, I’d much rather use a cracked version of audioTX than even the trial, since I can’t even get the thing to work, and all because I ran an older installer of the program at first. I didn’t know that was such a horrible crime!
If anyone knows of a cracked audioTX v1.4, I’ll take it!
Monty Icenogle, frustrated computer user.
Monty Icenogle - p2pnet
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June 21st, 2007 at 10:27 am
Windows registry files. What a real pain.
I started a job and was given a Windows computer. It was slow and awful to work with. The IT people were not much help as their work load was horrendous, dealing with all the different Windows issues such as as virus attacks, holes and crashes.
I read about a registry cleaning program and it just happened that the IT staff had a copy. I installed it and ran it. After a few hours, it finally spitted out a list of over 4000 entries that were not associated with any software or application on the computer. I proceeded to remove these enteries, one at a time.
What a shock when my computer ran so much faster.
Search and try a registry cleaning program and you may be surprised.