This is pretty hard to believe. I used MJ 8 for the 30 day trial with not one hint of a problem. It performed flawlessly...editing tags, CD labels...it did everything it said it would do. That all ended when I paid my $24.98. I've had nothing but problems ever since my program was registered. Please note this program is installed on a squeaky clean system from a fresh system reinstall. It has all the memory & space it could ever ask for & the rest of the computer is purring like a kitten. I can't even count how many times I've uninstalled MJ, but I used MJ's own uninstall plus Norton & the Windows uninstall. I've DL'd the version updates all with the same results.
The first problem was with the CD Labeler. I had made about 15 or 20 labels during the trial period...all with not one problem. These were not complicated labels...no images or anything fancy....we're talking strictly text here. After registering I attempted similar labels. Now mind you...the only change to my system between being able to make labels & not was the registration. After creating the label I hit the print button...it brought up my printer for a second, but did nothing. It didn't keep the printer online and any repeated steps to print or make adjustments in the label would just scramble the entire label window. At first I thought I had a printer problem, but all other programs both before & after the scramble will print without a flaw. I did this with the same results at least 10 times. Reboot, cold boot, reinstall...same results. I tried saving the label before I printed it...when I opened it up again, it was scrambled. I was forced to learn the Nero labeler and just stick MJ in the can.
Next to go was the tag/property editor. I really loved this feature during the trial. That didn't last long. If I attempt to edit any amount of tags in the editor it will let me go through the motions, but when I click update it will just stall with the "Saving information" window stuck open. I even tried to up date the properties one at a time in the play window and it would do a few and then stall.
I've had fatal system errors and lock ups that just were not happening before I registered and they have all been with JUST this program.
One final thought about all this is that with all the reinstalls & ver updates I did of MJ I did not one time did I have to put in the registration code. That leads me to believe that when I uninstalled it there was something left behind that had the code stored. I don't know enough to know where that may be or how to fix it, but maybe this is part of the problem.
OK...this is my last thought...really:) This one may be partly my fault, but I was a little annoyed that after shelling out my cash for the full working version I find out that to get the "Plus" version I'd have to put out some more?
Did I miss some fine print?
Media Jukebox PLUS 8.0.370
Install Path: C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\
CPU: Intel Pentium III 547 MHz MMX
Memory: Total - 522 MB, Free - 428 MB
Resource Info: System - 77 %, GDI - 84 %, User - 77 %
OS: Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Internet Explorer: 5.00.2614.3500
ComCtl32.dll: 5.00.2614.3500
Shlwapi.dll: 5.00.2614.3500
Shell32.dll: 4.72.3812.600
wnaspi32.dll: 2, 0, 0, 0 , ASPI for WIN32 DLL, Copyright © Adaptec 1995