Activating an older vers on Audition 3.0

Report · Aug 02, 2021

Good day! During my 'Corona Cleaning', I came across an old version of Audition 3.0. It is/was shrinkwrapped and has a seriel number.

1.) When I installed, it prompted me to activate over the internet. I got a message that said: "Audition Server Unavailable".

2.) When I called the phone number to activate by phone, the recording said they do not allow activation by phone anymore. And led me to this page: https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/activate-deactivate-products.html

3.) I went to my free Adabe account, and made sure my account listed Adobe Audition 3.0 with the seriel number.

4.) I still get the message in the software that my 'trial' will end in 30 days.

Can someone suggest a way to use this software, and get it activated?

Report · Aug 02, 2021

There are any number of threads about this, as a search would reveal - typically this one. The page they linked you to only tells a very limited version of the real situation - which is that Adobe were forced by their legal department to remove the freely downloadable Audition 3 that worked (the only version that did), for reasons that we are not allowed to discuss. And also, they didn't tell you that this page only applies to CS apps - and Audition 3 wasn't one. Audition isn't a CC app either - which is why having it listed in the CC app makes no difference; that's just a convenience.

If you look around, you might find the workable version of Audition 3, along with its one-off serial number - but that's your only chance of getting it going. The copy you have is useless.

Report · Aug 02, 2021

>>If you look around, you might find the workable version of Audition 3, along with its one-off serial number - but that's your only chance of getting it going<<

I DO have a serial number.

Report · Aug 03, 2021

The whole point is that your serial number won't work. Neither will your copy of the software - as I said, that's useless. The only version that can be got to work is the unlocked one with its unique unlock code, and that's the one you have to track down.

Report · Apr 20, 2023

Hi Steve, can you help please? I have Audition 3 (original CDROM, etc) and tried to install it today on win 10, but of course the activation servers are down. I checked my backup drive and found I have another version of audition called "ADBEAudition_ESD1_WWEFGJIS.exe"; but my original serial number doesn't seem to work. Can you advise in some way please? Thanks, Shaun

Report · Apr 20, 2023

Hi Steve, quick correction - I do have the serial number...it seems I don't have the patch that seems to be required. Can you help please? Shaun

Report · Apr 20, 2023

Well, I think you have the correct 'other' version, and it's no secret that the Serial Number to unlock it is 1137-1004-8571-6848-7845-8029. But that is all you need to get it going; installing the patch isn't that straightforward IIRC - you have to do something strange, and I believe that there's more info on this in the Audition 3 FAQ. But as I said, it should work without it. If you really want to try to install the patch, I can tell you that it's called audition301.zip and it is still in the Adobe ftp site, along with the Amplitude Statistics and graphic phase shifter updates/fixes. There's a thread about how you access this (it's perfectly legal) but you'll have to explore the paths yourself to locate them - they are in the same directory. You need an ftp package to do this - it doesn't work properly (or indeed at all) from most browsers.

And before anybody asks - no, the free version of Audition 3 isn't in there - just the patches. It's a useful thing to be able to access this though - not because of anything to do with Audition 3, but because it's also the way to download all of the original Loopology stuff - not just the limited amount that shows on the website.