I have been using verison 1.3.9.0 since Jan '07, with only a couple of issues, to convert about 3,000 songs. 1 - I have had to re-install it a handful of times when it complained that it was corrupted. Big deal. Uninstall, reboot, re-install... what 10 minutes? 2 - Less than 1% of the converted songs have 1-2 second skips in them. 3 - From time to time I get an error to the effect that the encoder has generated an error ... sometimes re-doing the conversion of that song works and sometimes it does not. Oh well, I may have to live with one less song that I can put on my $20 mp3 player. 4 - Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor and possibly some other programs would only work after I uninstalled SoundTaxi first. 5 - Very rarely it would wander off in to la-la land and do little if anything for no no apparent reason. Swapping out the tired electrons (reboot) would fix it though I think that I may have had to re-install it once. I have JUST upgraded to 3.4.2 and found that at least a couple of the files that gave me conversion errors an hour ago under 1.3.9 went through just fine. WRT some of the other comments here, the names of the licensing levels are misleading. I was just at the site and while the "Platinum" edition does 2 conversions at a time at 6x, the "Professional" version does 16 conversions at a time at 50x. The version above Pro has stuff that I don'y need; converting video and YouTubeRipper for Internet Explorer. In hindsight I should have paid the extra few bucks and gotten tthe Pro edition but then again, with 16 running at the same time maybe I would not have gotten anything else done. Hey! 2 x 8 = 16 and 6 x 8 = 48 which is quite close to 50 so maybe that's how they calculate the difference betwwen the conversion speeds not the conversion processor guts but simply the fact that they will spawn 8 x as many sub-threads under the Pro version? Realistically, this is a useful utility that you run in the background while doing other stuff so it is not mission critical. People are so used to getting really massive and complex and reasonably stable pieces of code for free that they go absolutely postal when a program that they pay for breaks. But, did you really thing that Internet Explorer or anything else that comes wrapped up in a Windows box was free? It's just that the makers of this product have no other product line so they have to cover everything under this price tag. Also, how many testbed machines do you believe that they have in their development lab. Now, to judge from other opinions here, if they at least had a refund policy, there should be no worthwhile complaints. The issue would be how could THEY protect themselves from possible fraud by ensuring that you had removed the software that you were dissatified with from your machine?

Well I bought it to convert my 1000+ iTunes (m4p) files and it worked.. but fairly slowly (it took more than 48 hours straight) and I have a Dell running Windows XP with about a gig of RAM. Now I'm having serious problems because I have one folder that I still had to convert with approx 80 songs. It was moving unbelievably slowly and I"m attempting to fix the speed. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've already tried unplugging the modem and pausing saftey stuff, is there anything else I can do?

have bought and downloaded soundtaxi but cant get it to work tried drag and drop tried new program names tried everything ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Hey gang. I've been using ST for almost 2 years now on a Windows XP system and have downloaded every new version and put my same serial number and code on and it's worked everytime. I'm pretty sure I have put in a new bigger drive in during that time and used same info in reinstall. If you've misplaced your info it is also in your Registery take a look if you don't have yours written down. go to run command prompt ->regedit->HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SoundTaxi click on SoundTaxi. to the right you will see ActivationCode the data to the right is your code. if you go down further you will see License to the right is your serial number. write those guys down. Then don't mess with anything and get out of there. I hope that helps someone. Next. I have been having the issue with the 60 second error thingy. Today I figured out that if I right click on one of my purchased wma's from my yahoo unlimited folder and click open with windows media player and allow the license thing to re-acquire and do it's thing that after that I have no problem converting again. I found if I go to open my Napster tracks with windows media player and they won't go I let it do the acquire thing as well. While it's doing that I log into napster account and then it's good to go. I close napster and click to convert the stuff and it then works. If your license expires on that stuff or they update the license with a new version of the song it won't work till you re-acquire it again. Works for me. This has to help someone out there. I've downloaded all three versions of ST on the site now Premium - Pro and the one that says it does video etc trials and they are the same. I don't know what that's about. I don't see anything about video in this latest download when I run it and still only doing 2 songs conversions max at once. which is o.k. with me. Any skips and clicks I have had issues with have been blips from too many things running at the same time either during download or during conversion or from playing tracks during. I just re-download and convert again and seem to have no issues with them then. I hope this has helped someone. Rocky

It worked just fine until one day, everysingle song i converted just started this overwhelming skipping trend. It was so depressing, because it was working so perfectly before, so why is this happening. I tried everything but nothing seems to be working. The only thing i convert is napster files. Other files seem to work just fine, but I need to convert napster.

Just like many here, I purchased the Pro version of SoundTaxi. At first, things worked very well, but after a couple of weeks, the youtube ripper stopped functioning at all. I have sent three emails, with no repsonse in three weeks. What a rip off this company is if they can't even respond to my support requests. Has anyone else hads this problem?

Why after your purchase do they not send you a license code then don't respond to your e-mails when you contact support, i have bought this before and used it with no problems but because i have a new laptop they wont send me the license code (which you need to convert all the song), very poor service from ramka

The trial version worked, so I purchase it. Its still working one a file only 8mb (2:30 Hours).

I WANT TO KILL THE PEOPLE WHO MADE ME WAIST MY MONEY ON THIS @#$%& IT SUCKS, IT DOESN'T WORK, I GET A FREAKING ERROR MESSAGE ON EVERY SINGLE FREAKING SONG, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE, WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY, I'M GONA CRY :(

I was having problems with the program converting songs without skips but I added more memory and now it works fine. Seems to be RAX files that it has problems with unless you have at least a gig of memory. Make sure all your songs are playable before you try and convert them. After I added more memory, Realplayer thought it was a different computer and wouldn't play any of my songs. I was also having 60 second timeout errors. I had to log into my account and re-license my "new" computer and everything worked fine. You can download and reinstall new versions of the program but you need your license number and the activation code which is the number that they tell you to write down after you enter your license number. If you have those 2 numbers, you can always update to the latest version. The program seems to work OK for me but you'll probably have problems if you have less than a gig of memory on your system.

Well, the software was working, other than skips in the songs. However, now I just get errors or the conversion was not started in 60 seconds. I have friends having better luck with TuneBites. I wish I would have found this thread prior to buying the SoundTaxi pro edition ($25).

Wasn't sent a license key when I purchased it - still no word from support after 2 weeks. Sends my XP machine to 100% CPU usage and never loads. Crashes on opening on my Vista machine. Still trying to get my money back - don't waste your time (or money).

WOOW worst program in the world by far, i bought the pro version and not only does it not convert 16 songs at once (it only does one) but it makes the songs skip too, GAYEST, MOST USELESS, STUPID PROGRAM EVER!!!!

Its been working fairly well up until now. I get a message saying "error" on every several songs or so. Any suggestions what to do? All the other songs convert and play fine.

don't waist your time or money on this... its crap. i hope to got the money back guarantee wasn't fake. cause im pissed!