Makes nasty boinking sounds when installing, and doesn't work unless you remember to restart your computer and enter the code. But then.. Wonderful! CPU usage is very very heavy at the beginning of each song, so it's best to be doing nothing else while you convert. Do it over night. I found that unhooking the internet and shutting down both firewall and virus protection greatly speeded up conversion. If the CPU reaches 100% you may get burps in your converted file. I've had good results with doing a batch and then listening - and rerecording the few that didn't go well. It does stop converting if you give it too many at a time, but it did 117 this morning with no trouble. I think my overnight roster was over 300 and that was what was left of my rax to mp3. Now I see some notes on real saying that perhaps I can do it through realplayer, but honestly, I don't understand why real isn't savvy enough to hook into the MP3 market. It shouldn't be such an awful mystery to get files to work on widely used players! Anyway back to my library, soon to be on my Mp3 player!

I can't get SoundTaxi to work for .wmv files downloaded from 4 on demand. It starts the conversion and displays the video for about 1 second then aborts and gives a not very helpful message of "Diagnostic code 1" in the Conversion Result. Can anyone help?

Lot's of bummers flying around here. FYI - Don't try to convert your entire library at one shot. The program will choke. Since I keep my library in folders named a, b, c, for the first letter of the artists name, it is easy because my library is broken into 26 folders..... no problem. Meanwhile, I sick SoundTaxi on my girls ITunes library (the whole thing) and it's SystemCrashy. Wonder why anyone buys it. Aint you all heard of torrents? Have fun

Why do they put so much security on a crappy program. Anytime you have to reformat your HD, the stupid program gives you a new system ID. Then you have to beg and it takes 3-4 days before support sends you a code that still doesn't work. Biggest POS that has ever come out.

Beware that Soundtaxi is also being marketed under other names- like All Music Converter. The latest news- I now cannot start up Media Player, other programs eg Explorer, start up only sometimes. Windows is running slower than a week in the jail, and I am getting error messages all the time. I am constantly having to shut down and re-boot My operating system has been ruined by Soundtaxi. I utterly regret the day I installed it. If you install Soundtaxi you may end up having to buy another OS, or worse still, a new laptop or PC.

OK I spoke too soon. After a little time with soundtaxi, it is clear that the program is rotten, and I paid for it!! It continually crashes my laptop. I want it to convert my music library. Each time I leave the laptop alone, I come back, it has crashed. After my laptop crashes, and I re-boot, Soundtaxi does not remember the list it was converting, and what music it has already converted, so you are back to square one. If you re-insert your list, soundtaxi will start at the top of the list again, from the beginning, converting songs it has already converted, before crashing the laptop again. Frustrating, a waste of money, a waste of time. I now realise that, beyond the fake glowing reviews, no doubt by soundtaxi themselves, and some fake criticisms, no doubt by rivals, there are a lot of people like me, who are submitting genuine reviews that this program simply doesn't work properly, and could seriously damage your pc or laptop. I would say, based on current experience, I have wasted my money and time. Suggestion- soundtaxi- avoid like you would syphillis.

Does anyone have a solution to the R&R Installer error box popping up after converting about 25-30 songs each time?

I am currently sitting here, reading the cricisms of the program. Whne I first ran it, the program came up with errors for all the files I wanted to convert. My laptop froze, and I shut it down. However I then rebooted it, and I have to say that, although it's early days, things are going swimmingly! I am running Soundtaxi, which is converting protected files without a problem. I'm playing the Soundtaxi converted MP3s to listen to, and I'm also burning cd's to my hard drive. And, on top of that, I'm also downloading from an mp3 site. All with a fairly cheap Gateway laptop. What am I doing right? I haven't a clue.

SoundTaxi converts all my files, but some of the tracks skip anyone knows how to fix the problem.

this program sucks at converting video, removing DRM, and many of the audio "features" do not function at all. support is non-existant.

I just downloaded the program but whenever I installed and then attempted to enter my license code my computer restarted by itself immediately. I did this three times. I e-mailed support and then looked around for a phone number only to discover that Ramka Ltd. is located in the Ukraine. Sigh...... After reading down this page at other comments I am beginning to get worried. If the program just won't work I am afraid I won't even be able to get a refund. The trial version actually worked though. I went so far as to burn a 30 second conversion onto a CD and see if it would indeed play on my CD player. It worked and I tried this on two songs but one of them did have a slight skip. This was my first time buying software online and I was already nervous about it! From now on I may just stick to a store to get my software. Hopefully the support team will respond but I m feeling pretty crappy about buying it. Does everything have to be a hassle these days?!

anyone find a phone no. for soundtaxi ? Ramka ltd! may be then we can get some thing done.

Loved the program but had a vitrus attack and had to reformat hd and reinstall software soundtaxi wouldn't work again because it changed my system id code tried to email support but they don't respond. There support sucks!

Sound Taxi is an excellent program even with thye activation problems. I managed to get Dmitri to supply two new activation codes after I had to reinstall the program and change some hardware. I also feel that if we do need to reinstall the cost of the program far covers the benefits recived in copying DRM files. I have now got ST on both my workstation and my laptop but I mhave now come across the R&R Instakller bug to which I will be contacting ST Support and yes I may eventually get an answer

I just ran across the "All Music Converter" on the net. The interface is identical to Sound-Taxi and is put out by Ramka Ltd. What a surprise! Does it work any better? I do note a couple of improvements to my version like handling of AA files.