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[swamos]

I plan to purchase JRiver but have both Mac (MacBook Pro hitting iTunes) and PC (Beatis music server hitting iTunes library and local external storage) platforms. Of course I must download both OS versions, but do I have to pay the full price for each or does one purchase price allow me to get a license key for each?

[Cedric D]

Yes, Mac and Windows are separate products and each needs its license.
if you run MC on both machines you'll buy two licenses.

[JGAG]

Glad I found this before I invested time and money, trialling JRiver, so thanks!

For the developers / administrators, whilst I appreciate that two platforms means twice the work, from your perspective.

From my perspective

• many people end up in a joint PC/Mac environment nowadays, for reasons they may not be able to control
• you are clearly offering to license multiple (same flavour) machines e.g. home / office / portable
• many software vendors recognise this reality and suffer the costs, to meet their clients needs
• The good news is you are actively investing in enhancing JRiver, with many chargeable upgrades, paying once for each version upgrade may make sense.  But even if I bought two licences initially, paying twice for each upgrade pushes the proposal into - not affordable territory

so I'll stick with Audivarna on a Mac for playing music - which I am very happy with and VLC on the windows box, which is ok.

I'd be delighted to hear if you change your policies, and having spent 40 years in software development, I entirely respect your current rationale, but for the moment I wouldn't be prepared to invest the upfront and ongoing costs

[JimH]

The good news is you are actively investing in enhancing JRiver, with many chargeable upgrades, paying once for each version upgrade may make sense.  But even if I bought two licences initially, paying twice for each upgrade pushes the proposal into - not affordable territory.

That development costs significant money.  You don't ever have to upgrade, but if you do it early in the cycle, it's discounted.  It was $18.98 last cycle.