RAZORMAID2  Has anyone gotten this to work? I tried like crazy to get the program to respond and look like the tutorial screen shots, but it just won't find anything that I paid for through iTunes - nothing, nada, zealch!

I can't even get the window to match the screen shot. What I men by that is: there is no side panel view showing MUSIC, MOVIES, TV SHOWS, AUDIOBOOKS, etc.. like it shows in their examples. So how did they get them to show up?

I even tried to use the "add file" function, even though "Drag & Drop" is used in every MAC software ever written - hoping maybe it could locate the AAC protected files, but it does not even show them at all. Not as available - I mean NOT AT ALL. Even clicking inside the few playlists I do see - three being for TV SHows and it only shows the one's I extracted via DVD through Mac The Ripper and encoded through Popcorn and Toast. Well hell, those don't need processing - I already did those. So how does it take the copy protect off files it can't see? Can someone enlighten me on that one?

Let me guess... they want you to purchase it first THEN it all turns on? Right. I don;t think so. If it don't be workin' on the trial, then it no be workin', period.

Joseph Watt

Razormaid Productions  
(Version 1.0.1)

RAZORMAID2  Not sure why Safari is coming up in this thread for Firefox, but someone questioned me about it, here goes.

The problem (which by the way was confirmed by Apple w was the same problem that some 40,000+ other Apple users had reported in the forum section... for no apparent reason, we would get "Server Not Found", even if clicking "back browser" button returning to a cached page.

This problem is (and was) heavily documented on their forum in both software and networking problems areas. Until 10.5.1 came out it was a world wide problem, nit just little 'ol me. If you did not have this problem, great, for the rest of us, we were unable to get to 90% of our web pages we tried to access.

However (and this is the point I was making in this thread originally)... Firefox 1.0.0.9 worked flawlessly. Apple openly stated that is was a special "web" package they were using that was causing this problem. Firefox does not use this "web package" so their browser was unaffected which was my point.

I was asking in this comment section what Firefox did from version 2.0.0.9 to this beta that caused it to go off the deep end and crash the computer? That's all.

joseph  
(Version 3.0b1)

RAZORMAID2  What happened?

When 2.0.0.9 came out it saved the big Leopard debut, as the version of Safari that arrived with Leopard arrived "crashing and burning". It took Apple about 7 days afterwords to get things back up and running. I bet you picked up a lot of new people during this time, as FireFox was THEEE browser that kept things rolling along... and FAST, I might add.

Imagine my surprise when I went and installed this version 3 beta over this perfectly good working versions of Firefox and it came to a complete crawl all the sudden.

This versions is terrible! This is not a criticism of Firefox in general - only of this version 3 beta. Anyone that says that installed this and it's working great is full of it. I put it on 5 different computers and each had to be "pulled from the wall" to get control of the computer again.

Don't you guys test this stuff before unleashing it "to the hounds"? You deserve every harsh comment made when you release something that performs this pathetic. Seriously guys.

Whatever you did from version 2.0.0.9 up till this release... UN DO IT! This thing crashed and burned my whole computer. I couldn't even "force quit"... it even locked that up. I finally had to pull the plug from the wall.

I immediately reinstalled 2.0.0.9 and every thing's back to working fantastic again. I do NOT recommend this version to anyone, not even people I don't like.

joseph  
(Version 3.0b1)

RAZORMAID2  You must be new to MAC. When you launch an App of course it will show up "in all docks". It is now officially "up and running".

Dockfun! has no control over showing you what you open and leave open. That's just how OS X works. It opens it up and places it on the far right side, with a black triangle undeneath, to remind you "Hey! You left me open, dude!".

When you close it, it goes away. That's how these things work on OS X. You didn't know?

jw  
(Version 4.7)

RAZORMAID2  Popcorn 3 is broken in Leopard. The icon bounces a few times.... then NADA!

I hear Popcorn 2 will work in Leopard, but their web site will not let you login - no matter how many times you change your password.

What is up with this company? The whole programming community has had their hands on Leopard for months (almost over a year in fact), yet when you call them they act so surprised to learn their software isn't working in Leopard? You telling me... no one at Roxio who had a copy of Leopard... ever tried to launch their own software... EVER?

You're kidding me, right?  
(Version 3.0)

RAZORMAID2  My name is Joseph Watt and I am the owner of Razormaid Productions, a professional remix service for Dance Music worldwide. I was one of the original members of the team back in 1986, that helped mold and shape Sound Designer II into the timeless entity that is was. It held the prestigious honor of being the best of the best for nearly two decades. Unfortunately, back in 1997 when lawsuits froze it in time forever, we thought that was the end. When Apple took the leap to UNIX and Digidesign had no way to alter the program (as terms of the lawsuit settlement) we thought our days were numbered... and the were.

In September of 2006, through MacUpdates.com, I discovered a little program called Wave Editor. Keep in mind, like hundreds of you, I too has taken in by programs like Spark and Peak, with promises of things it just could not do - in Peak's case even today after numerous attempts by me to offer to help them "get it right" - so I was skeptical when I first downloaded the free 15 trial version of WE (Wave Editor).

While I waited for it to download, I read a bit about the programmers, through their online bios. When I saw the phrase, "We wrote this program to pay homage to Sound Designer II"... I knew instantly I found the right program... or so I thought.

My first reaction to the free download was not a good one. When I went to the pulldown menu's expecting to see all the same things I had in SDII, it hardly had anything at all. Even the preference window only had the option to change the sound wave's color. What's up with that? I mean, despite it's obvious flaws, even the dreadful PEAK program had similar "phrases" to SDII, so I was about to bail on this program, until I wrote to the programmers to ask them what part of WE did they pay homage to SDII with, 'cause I can't find it.   
(Version 1.2.1)