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Hendrik:
--- Quote from: nonsub on May 10, 2023, 02:19:07 pm ---Fair argument. That being said the 1-day notice to end users I believe would either be ignorance (ie. intentionally disrespectful to customers,) or incompetence (ie. switching cloud providers and suddenly finding a cost problem.)
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These are only tangentially related. We're switching hosting of some services, most prominently Cloudplay, which generates a lot of data usage, but that change requires an update to MC to retain full functionality.
jmone:
The other thing to consider if you are on a very old version of MC, is that links to on-line services can change for all sorts of reasons (and in this case to save costs) but we have also seen meta data scraping sites go way, change thier APIs, block access etc etc.
I think it's pretty great that JRiver is going back and releasing updates for the last couple of versions so they keep working... but they can only go back so far. I'm not sure they could realistically even open up the source code for say MC15, make changes and recompile a new version given all the changes to the compilers over that timeframe.
Seems like a good balance to me.
Pogle:
I don't understand this. For the sake of openness can someone please explain in not too technical terms where the cost is incurred in CD lookups and the difference between how MC31 and pre-MC28 handle it? Is/was it a 3rd-party service or is the location hard coded for example?
I upgraded to MC27 less than two and a half years ago and do not expect removal of functionality from paid software this soon. Struggling to understand how we're already up to 31 in that time, tbh.
Big fan of the software but feel the updates are thick and fast for functionality I mostly don't use.
JimH:
You're helping pay for:
Hardware (disk drives, backup systems, network)
Our time and expense in maintaining complex servers that need frequent updates.
Bandwidth and other hosting costs.
Support costs such as this forum and the time we spend on it.
We have a team of people who keep all the software we use and sell up to date.
When you think of Media Center, you probably think of the software you download and install, but there is a lot of work that goes into the backend servers and services that Media Center uses. We didn't charge for that in the past. Now we do.
Your software will continue to work. You can enter track information manually when you rip. You can find art online and paste it into the tag window.
The Internet has many examples of services that were free once but are no longer. Much of the quality news services, for example.
If you update MC from time to time, you'll see no difference. If not, it won't be as convenient as it has been, but it will still work.
I'm sorry if anyone thinks this is unfair, but it's part of the cost of using good software.
kjhkjh123:
JRiver Team, I am running 30.095, updated from 30.093 this afternoon. In both versions, including a computer reboot, I am experiencing the error of the program unable to access the CD lookup databases - intermittent, not every disk. Is 31 stable yet to just upgrade, or wait a couple more builds.
Thanks
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