Article: Should You Rent or Buy Audio Software?

[Kal Rubinson]

3 hours ago, serendipitydawg said:

On a personal note I found jRiver perplexing at best & irritating at worst. I am pretty sure I could talk the dumbest of my acquaitances though setting up foobar on the phone (does that make me "good"??)

And I could say the say with JRiver and foobar swapped.  ?

[Kal Rubinson]

1 hour ago, bobfa said:

I am going to add another class of software.  You “purchase” the software for your use and it includes “updates” until the next “major” version is released.   You are HAPPY.  Then six months or nine months down the road the company says HEY DUDE we have a new version and it will be “$49” upgrade fee and you REALLY NEED it.  So how can you be happy with our old and tired software you need the new version;TODAY!!

Why does anyone believe that the new version is really needed?  If you are using the old version without issues and the changes/improvements/fixes in the new version do not address anything of concern to you, why change?  I am still using "our old and tired" MIcrosoft Office 2007 because it still does everything I need and there are many other examples.  

 

I regularly update JRiver because (1) I use it every day and almost all the time, (2) it is relatively cheap and (3) I am continually finding new and useful facilities, some of which I did not anticipate needing.

[Kal Rubinson]

4 minutes ago, mansr said:

If you handle files from untrusted sources (meaning anyone but yourself, at best), you will need to get fixes for security issues in the software. There are probably a thousand ways Office 2007 can be tricked into doing something nasty simply by opening a file.

Possibly but I am pretty careful about untrusted sources and fortunate, at least so far.  (Don't take that as a challenge.)