MusicIP Mixer for Mac

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• This is the same 1.7 that was released in October...

  normg1June 2, 2007

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  ...2006!<br />This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Why is the developer trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes and claim this as a new release? Just so he can get some free publicity from Version Tracker? This is NOT a new version release as indicated on VT where it says the relase date is 5/26/2007! (I have reported this to the VT editors, so it may have been changed by the time you are reading this) So don't waste your time downloading the "new" version. The idea behind MusicIP Mixer is great. When it was Magic Music Mixer it worked fine. I made some really awesome mixes with the product; loved it, paid for it. But like all marriages, we ended up in Divorce Court. Whicken (the developer and a highly skilled Mac programmer) decided to concentrate on the Windows market instead, so he hired someone to do the Mac stuff that IMHO, wasn't nearly the programmer that Whicken is. Apple didn't help by changing things around in iTunes and Whicken and his new Mac programmer didn't understand that many, many people keep their library and .xml file locally but store the actual music files on a server or NAS. MusicIP Mixer doesn't understand this configuration very well and so doesn't really work. I have for example never been able to use a Mood Mix. The tracks listed in MusicIPMixer end up getting duplicated so you see every song twice. The analysis isn't really archived correctly, so the program keeps trying to analyze the library over and over again. And it runs as SLOW as paint drying, tying up your computer for days and days while it performs its analysis. I stopped using the product last year and won't start again until and unless Whicken decides to pay more attention to the Mac version. He gives great lip service, but there's always some excuse: his one lone Mac developer is (pick one) sick, busy, tired, working on something else, got hired by Apple, got pulled off to work on the Windows version, can't duplicate your issue, etc. Maybe the next version will fix everything that's wrong with this one. As I said, Great Idea, worked really well in earlier versions under a different name, 1.7 doesn't work worth a darn now. My advice: Avoid the product, wait and hope for Version 1.8 late in 2007.

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• Ummm

  Gareth IrwinSeptember 8, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Installed it scanned my separate harddrive of over 7000 songs, made lots of noises and found 7. Then it crashed. Why does this software need to look at my music collection in this way? It seems a bit dodgey to me, install at your own risk

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