There isn't any way to do that. You could try it on another PC.
Yes, I suppose that's possible too. Thanks. It's unfortunate that the honest folks like myself who always pay for all our software (and that's probably well over $8k worth - I'm a developer too, so appreciate the predicament) end up paying the price for such measures.
Perhaps you'd be kind enough to answer a couple of questions.
1) Does MC support a unique, user-defined reference ID for CDs (ie, 0001, 0002, etc. to allow for convenient reference in storage cases? If so, does it do auto-increment; if not, any chance of it appearing in a future version?
2) Can MC create a relationship (hopefully automatically) between ripped tracks and the CD media from where they were ripped (i.e. so that there is one entry in the database for a CD title, which includes the CD id, perhaps bar code, and of course the tracks ripped to disk. Other programs seem to want to distinguish between ripped tracks and physical media, so that you have two entries in the database - one for the CD, one for the on-disk ripped music.
3) Does MC support bar-code readers, such as cue-cat?
Thanks again,
MrC