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[Sangie]

I would love this as I have already spent nearly $150 on all the paid upgrades that come in for my Master license. Would you all consider having a lifetime plan or maybe a monthly subscription plan? It's really annoying to pay $35 every time a new release comes out. This is the first time I haven't paid the upgrade fee due to all the previous upgrades I purchased.

[JimH]

You might take a minute to read this:  https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,81987.0.html

You don't need to buy every upgrade.   You could skip some.  But it does help keep JRiver in operation.

A lifetime license would be a death sentence for JRiver, in my opinion.

[Sangie]

That makes sense! But I would rather pay a fixed annual fee. That way I know I'm not going to be locked out of a release unless I let it expire.

I guess $35/year isn't bad at all which is probably about what I pay... it just feels like I'm buying it a lot more often than I am.

[Awesome Donkey]

Media Center licenses don't expire though, they're meant to be standalone. Meaning if you have a Media Center 18 license for example, you can keep using Media Center 18 on your computer(s) until it doesn't work anymore. Granted, backwards app compatibility on newer macOS releases will become an issue sooner than later. Same also applies to Linux as well. Windows has the best backwards compatibility, I bet you can still run 20 year old Media Center releases on Windows 10.

So it's not a subscription or an annual fee. It's an optional upgrade to a new Media Center version that doesn't replace your existing Media Center version(s) installed (which you can have multiple versions of Media Center installed at the same time too). But if you don't want to upgrade, you don't have to.

[Bohemian]

For my own case I very rarely, if ever, use MC for video use. It seems that the majority of work being done on new versions are aimed at video/dvd/tv use so the value falls for me.

My use of MC is as a music server, but I have regularly upgraded until this last time. MC27 does what I want, 28 adds nothing for me. It’s the first time I have declined the upgrade offer.

[dfortney]

For my own case I very rarely, if ever, use MC for video use. It seems that the majority of work being done on new versions are aimed at video/dvd/tv use so the value falls for me.

My use of MC is as a music server, but I have regularly upgraded until this last time. MC27 does what I want, 28 adds nothing for me. It’s the first time I have declined the upgrade offer.

Same here but I just keep paying anyway because with macOs updates something is always bound to break.  Sometimes though I do because there is some new or recent bug in the final versions of the year which impact me yet I don't know which version it started in and it usually gets fixed again within the first couple updates of the new year. Examples of this were a DSP Studio plugin bug and things like media key or shutdown/quit bugs.