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eezetee:

--- Quote from: adamt on July 22, 2015, 11:17:17 am ---Is Youtube not working for you?  Some videos, especially music videos, won't work because of the protection on them.

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Indeed it is currently however I've seen youtube make some changes and this broke JRiver but then after a JRiver update, the capability came back.

What i'm wondering is if I stayed on version MC20, and youtube once again broke, will there be fixes issued for it or MUST i upgrade to MC21?

eezetee:
Just looking to make sure I don't get outdated (ie a system that can't be updated) with fixes should some capabilities break.

Can someone please advise if fixes for MC20 such as if youtube breaks will be supported if we don't upgrade at the moment

JimH:
Once we stop working on an older version, we don't make changes to it for any reason.  That time is probably coming soon for MC20.

eezetee:
Thanks JimH.  I guess that will be the deciding factor for me to move to MC21.

The part is that while I understand and regression work to address compatibility issues with Youtube, it's not really a feature update that I should have to pay for, right?  I'm not looking for any of the MC21 features at the moment (because I don't know what they are, despite possibly being great) but rather just want the features of MC20 to work, which should be covered by the initial purchase, no?

Tough decision to make, I understand but I think this could affect people's purchasing decisions.

glynor:

--- Quote from: eezetee on July 27, 2015, 09:22:55 pm ---The part is that while I understand and regression work to address compatibility issues with Youtube, it's not really a feature update that I should have to pay for, right?

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Sure it is. It isn't like the YouTube support broke because of some kind of JRiver-created timebomb. Google changed the YouTube API. So, support for the new API is a new feature (they had to re-write a sizable hunk of code to support the new YouTube API).

At your job, if you completed a project a year ago, would you expect to have to update it again and again, for years afterwards, due to changes other people made, for absolutely no paycheck? Or if you buy a car with an FM radio and then all the FM stations shut down in your area a year or three later, you expect Toyota to come and replace it with a Internet radio doohickey of some kind?

We don't know, of course, when the next time Google might change the YouTube API will be.  They usually announce them well in advance, but they could also shut down the whole website tomorrow. In any case, if it breaks at some point in the future, you might need to upgrade then to get a new version that fixes it (of course, there's also no guarantee that it will be possible to fix, as Google could discontinue the API entirely).  Software maintenance costs money. $27 seems like a pretty reasonable deal, considering you can choose to pay it at any time (they support upgrades from MC v10 for the same price).

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