RM Version 7 - a step backwards

[geoffkc]

I realise that things need to be always improved. However RM7 seems to have gone backwards.

1 I have to restart RM7 once, twice or even three times to record a second album of music from Spotify after recording the first one. This never ever happened with previous versions and I loathe it.

2 Where has the RESET button gone?

3 Where is the "stop Recording after xxx seconds" command gone?

That'll do for now. There are more things I truly hate but if these three got fixed, I might not abandon Replay Music. If not... it's not looking good.

Thanks for listening

Geoff

[wxman]

Totally agree, RM6 worked perfectly, I can't use RM7 because I will not disable Secureboot, but even when I used RM7 in the trial with the generic driver the interface was awful. I enjoyed all the previous RM versions until this one. Bad move.

[Cheryl Wester]

I am sorry you feel that way. We spent a lot of time and effort developing our latest version and most people do enjoy the user interface and the extra options that it does offer. Technology has changed a lot and we had to
develop to go with this technology.

[geoffkc]

Dear Cheryl

Firstly nice to see you still here and answering our sometimes-dumb questions!

However my points remain unanswered. I have to restart RM7 up to five times before it will record a second album in a session, and sometimes I have to restart Spotify too. This is driving me to despair. The other things are irritating but this is a killer. Has your developer any reason for this? I am recording Spotify in W7 32-bit.

All the new features in the world (which I do not need) I can walk round but you cannot just break something and say it is newer and better.

Geoff

[johnnythepie]

I must say that having used RM7 now since its inception, I have found it to be a sideways move and not a backwards one! There have been a few improvements one of which is that RM7 has not crashed once, whereas 6 would crash on an almost daily basis which is a massive bonus for me. However the track tagging both automatic and manual is awful...worse than 6. Ranging from the incorrect title, to having track and artist in the track field only. Manual tagging does not always apply itself either! And I cannot for the life of me find how to tag a various artists album all at once with the album title!! .I have to revert to using a seperate tagging program (dont laugh....musicmatch (awesome) ). But Ill put up with its difficulties because it doesnt crash, its SO good value and the support is incredible. Oh by the way, is anyone else getting a message box on startup stating it cant connect to the registration server?

[wxman]

Not to beat a dead horse but RM6 worked perfectly for me, and having followed these message boards for years it seems most were pleased with the product. I do not personally like the new interface but I suppose that's a matter of taste. The killer is having to disable a core security feature to make the new program work. Granted, many will have no trouble, but the reason for the security feature is to prevent a small risk of a big problem. Unless the new program is spectacularly better than the old, and I do not see anyone saying that, you need to keep the old program or at least offer a way for existing users to get the same functionality as the old without having to turn off security features. It's disappointing that you have not at least done the latter. Perhaps you need a new, NEW developer.