NICOLASD  as a user of this program almost daily for well over 2 years, i can report that i've found the developer very responsive and willing to hear and help track down bugs and issue updates.

this program is not for the causal myspace user. but for who it's meant, it's a great value and time saver. very well worth the money.

if you don't understand why you'd want to spend money on it, then it's not intended for you and your uses.

it CAN get a little crashy with databases containing hundreds of thousands of records. i've never lost any data or work.  
(Version 2.1)

NEPLOLEPPARD  I finally got a reply from the developer who sent me my unrecoverable code.

Upon entering it, Spyder sent me to a webpage asking me to upgrade for a grand total of $130 to continue using the software.

This is obviously a scam.

My Investigative Team has submitted the developer's information to various groups we're associated with including the Better Business Bureau.  
(Version 2.0.66)

NEPLOLEPPARD  When I first purchased this software, I could not activate it. I had to contact the developer who emailed me a code that fixed the problem.

Now I have a brand new computer that I just bought recently. Once again, the activation would not work. I contacted the developer.

Instead of troubleshooting, he emailed me 2 links pertaining to pages on the support page. ...Pages I had already read through and failed to have success with.

I forwarded the developer previous emails with him including my proof of purchase receipt from PayPal.

Since that last email I have heard nothing back and my software is still paid for and not activated. I would hate to call this a scam... perhaps it's just really terrible tech support. Regardless, it doesn't work and the developer doesn't seem very interested in helping the paying customers. ...or at least not this one.  
(Version 2.0.66)

FUZZYJON79  I am now getting an error when trying to log into the account I maintain with spyderx. The error says "Login failed. Either a server error occurred, the login or password is incorrect, or the account does not exist. Try again?"

When I actually logged into the real myspace, I saw that my account had been blocked, likely due to the spydex activity, but I entered a captcha and unblocked it. This happened several times. Could this be the problem? Has MySpace somehow shut me down from using spyderx?

I tried to log into my personal account and even a third account that I maintain and I got the same error, even though I did not maintain these particular accounts with spyderx. Have they just shut down this software completely?

Any ideas?   
(Version 2.0.44)

NEAN  The features are great, but massive resource problems in general.

eg.: on syncing, auto import/refreshing users and on database operations, and lot of crashes.

CPU load is disastrous, no other app is cripple down my G5 that much!

Since the last update I can see a performance improvement on sending friend requests.

I hope this issues will be fixed soon, otherwise I need to lookout for other possibilities to handle my myspace account.

regards,

nean  
(Version 2.0.36)

MOONMAN272_GMAIL.COM  So the consensus is that this App is horrible in its current incarnation.

Soooo.. what alternatives do people recommend for MySpace Management Apps on the mac?  
(Version 2.0.35)

TIM27  Looks like it's gone from $35 to $40. Good luck again! Even if you have huge numbers of friends, after trying this out, I've concluded that it isn't going to save you that much time compared to doing it on the site itself - for free.  
(Version 2.0.21)

NICOLASD  For what this program is designed for... adding and managing large numbers of myspace users, it's really the only Mac native solution.

I have a premium license with free lifetime upgrades. Version 2.0 is worth looking at if you have only used 1.4.x. There are a lot more features and the program is MUCH faster and efficient.

The developer has been amazingly helpful and responsive whenever I've had problems, sometimes releasing an update addressing my issue mere hours after contacting him.

The program has been and continues to be too crashy, but some of that, he tells me has to do with Apple's Core Data framework and how it scales when dealing with hundreds of thousands of records (Myspace users)

2.0.9 is vastly more stable and improved over the initial 2.0 release.

So to sum up, the program can be frustratingly unstable, but it's improving, it's a Mac native solution, and the developer is super helpful and responsive.  
(Version 2.0.9v18)

MRPICKLES  Sadly, the app doesn't do what it's designed to do-- add friends. I had no problem with the older version and I thought this would be a worthy upgrade since it was so clunky before only to find out it doesn't work at all. bumma!  
(Version 2.0.5v13)

LEOOFBORG  I'm a registered user of SpyderX 1.4. I have to say that initially, given all the MySpace spam it seemed like a good idea at the time. But over time I found that version 1 was very clunky: slow to fetch data even on a 6M/s DSL connection, and about as complex as using MySpace just from the web page.

I basically gave up on SpyderX.

For my needs I now run FLOCK, the web browser. The UI is a lot more simple [friends sidebar] and you can do everything necessary from a SIDEBAR. And not only with MySpace [read on].

So if you add Glimmerblocker [to filter ads] + AdBlock Plus [to get the insidious stuff] to Flock you pretty much have an effective social network wrangler that does not only MySpace, but Facebook, Flickr, and a bunch of other services.

Maybe the author has done some improvements, maybe he's more accessable to his users [this time], maybe... well, for me, as far as version 2 goes, unless it's a free upgrade for me.. I think maybe [based on previous experience with the app, keychain bugs, etc] it's a pass this time.  
(Version 2.0)