KKNOPP "We are not stupid and we can all read the short description under the product title ... "dozens of system sound files", so the first paragraph of your review is superfluous." Not really. you are speaking for yourself. As another person I talked to didn't know that all it installed was a bunch of sound files that he didn't create. The Installer is what is superfluous. It's not needed. "Regarding the installer, I guess the developer wanted to make it easier for us to install these sound files, especially as most of us don't have the /Library/Sounds folder. You can listen to the sounds after installation and simply trash the ones you don't like. So what's the problem? Why should we pay for Pacifist?" Maybe because it's a bigger pain than actually manually installing them? Plus people have trust issues with third party installers. That is why applications such as Pacifist exist in the first place. And rightfully so. Should you buy Pacifist because of this file alone? Naw, that would be silly. "You can't say that not all the sounds are really usable" Yes I can. That's my opinion that they aren't. Some are usable to me, some were simply not. "maybe you don't have any use for them" Well that's what my post it about right? MY experience with it? I only speak for myself. "I reckon this large collection of different types of sounds was put together to cater for various tastes and ages of users. For example, children & teenagers would like the animal sounds ... I know my kids do ... so your humble opinion that they are useless is, frankly, useless." No it's not useless, and you are really taking what I said PERSONALLY for being just a regular user with no connection to the application.... " This product also includes Mac OS Classic sounds so I'm not surprised you've heard some of them before," No, not just those. But sounds OTHER people have put out in OTHER packages. I doubt the "author" got permission for doing so. " is obvious that the author extracted 1-2 second sounds from other large audio files, after all, you don't really expect him to go to the zoo with his tape recorder or fly alongside a bald eagle, microphone in hand, in order to record their sounds. Anyhow, who cares where they originated? All we users are really interested in is that they are nice sounds and that they're usable - and they are! " I would say those who ORIGINALLY made them would care. After all they are the ones that did the hard work that it took to make them. Yo.. er i mean the author just took them, put them in an installer and added them on here. Big whoop. Anyone could have done that. So my post and review was legit. Funny thing is, that post I made was there for a long time. You didn't reply to it till I replied to a post of the Author's earlier today. ;) BTW you know authors that get caught posting as another person gets their file pulled? Not saying the author did it.. but you have only posted twice, both times about this "application" and having NO DOWNLOADS and the account was registered TODAY. (Not ACCUSING you of anything, it just seems fishy ;) ) (Version 1.1) |