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cjack99
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What is the true cost of "Au Shareware" or "Free Download"

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I once was a fairly serious user of pre-Audition, audition.  Then I moved to Audition 3, then 3.01.  And then my HDD crashed.  Long story short, with Windows 10 I can't get anything Audition to install.  I had it going on Win7, but nothing after that.  So I have just about given up.  Just today I see things pop up about Auditon Shareware, free download Audition, and an Adobe add linking to Audition CC purporting to be free, except at the bottom it mentions a subscription, which is a hefty price for someone that uses sound editing software about quarterly.

I also see Magix has it "ACID Music Studio 10" on sale for $20.  I'm thinking my best be is to forget Adobe and Audition forever and move on.  And yes, I paid for Audition 3, had a legal license, and was royally hacked off when the licensing server suddenly had a "technical issue".

I would like to hear some ideas from the community on this.

Thank you all

cjack99

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Correct answer SteveG_AudioMasters_

cjack99  wrote

Thanks for the info Steve.  Only problem is, does not work.  It did work on

Win7 when I moved from my old PC to my new one.  But - Somehow I got

trapped in that automatic Win10 thing that happened...... I guess like Dec

2015, and Audition never worked since.

Well, it must be something you've done - it works fine here on my similarly-upgraded laptop...

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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June 20, 2017

cjack99  wrote

And yes, I paid for Audition 3, had a legal license, and was royally hacked off when the licensing server suddenly had a "technical issue".

I would like to hear some ideas from the community on this.

Well, I can deal with that one for you - look here:

Audition 3 and the activation service

You will have to follow the instructions carefully, but it should work fine on Windows 10 running as a 32-bit emulation.

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cjack99Author
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June 20, 2017

Thanks for the info Steve. Only problem is, does not work. It did work on

Win7 when I moved from my old PC to my new one. But - Somehow I got

trapped in that automatic Win10 thing that happened...... I guess like Dec

2015, and Audition never worked since. I did do a painstaking manual

delete of all things Audition, I went further than the one that's linked in

the page you referenced, and then I downloaded the Audition package, and

the .exe files did there thing, but the installers would open and crash,

end of story. It's not like I've worked on this every second since Jan

2016, but about once a quarter I need to do some sound things, and I try

again, I'm just getting tired of trying.

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 3:01 PM, SteveG(AudioMasters) <

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June 20, 2017

cjack99  wrote

Thanks for the info Steve.  Only problem is, does not work.  It did work on

Win7 when I moved from my old PC to my new one.  But - Somehow I got

trapped in that automatic Win10 thing that happened...... I guess like Dec

2015, and Audition never worked since.

Well, it must be something you've done - it works fine here on my similarly-upgraded laptop...

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