I think more people should be proactive about this sort of thing, especially when a company takes over free code, then raises the price to twice what the competition charges.Īt $25-50 Rogue would literally have the entire audio community, hobbyist and professional alike on board, at $75-100 they cut 90% off of sales I would bet they're literally cutting their own throats with their pricing. I had no problem telling Audiophile Engineering that when they announced it, and no problem telling Rogue the same. I like Rogue Amoeba but this was as stupid of a pricing move IMO as Audiophile trying to sell their editor for $249. Nobody could possibly think you think the price is too high, you're using nonsense stats like "free updates" as proof of the value offered. Initial development and maintenance of Soundflower was done by Cycling InCycling 74 passed stewardship of Soundflower to Rogue Amoeba, but we ultimately didnt have the time or resources to improve the product. Waves may be the only one, you're talking in circles here. Soundflower is an open source kernel extension for MacOS, designed to create a virtual audio output device that can also act as an input. And I was not implying that the price for the Loopback app is high. Machinesworking wrote:Sure, why mention updates as being free then? What company makes you pay for updates? It should give the developers enough hints to fix. Exactly the same happens if you want to navigate within a soundfile which exceeds the duration of about 6 minutes. When Audiophile Engineering came out with their two track editor they thought it was so great they tried charging $249 for it, it's $79 now, just saying. I also posted this problem on the cycling '74 forum (Soundflower dev) and got the following message from a guy: 'It sounds like a bug related to 32-bit floating point resolution.
It's just disappointing to pay that much for a program I don't use that often, especially when Audio Hijack was a whopping $19 when it came out, and they wrote all the code themselves with no semi open source code in their stewardship to examine. I was never a daily or even monthly user of Soundflower, but when I did it just worked, until Cycling abandoned it. Granted I've owned Audio Highjack forever, just saying free updates is stretching it. CMake 92 MIT 18 57 (5 issues need help) 1 Updated 19 days ago. Not wanting to argue, but I paid for at least three upgrades for audio Hijack over the years. Tools, documentation, and reference implementation of a Max Package built using the Min-API. With Soundflower could be a bit iffy "Here is the latest version, remember this is free and open source, so if it f*cks your system your own risk" But for 75,- you get a stable product with free updates and support for the future.