Well the author says if you have to refomat or your PC crashes you have to buy another licence Their system is so inflexible - anyone else had this?

Using Version 2.0 runs ok with no crashes or blue screens, but i do keep getting skippy converted tracks. .. what to do? i contacted Customer support and was told: "It is recommended not to use any óPU or disk - intensive tasks duringconversion process, because it may affect output exactly in the way youheard." What is oPU? i wrote back to C.S. asking what oPU is , but got no explanation just the same reply as above. im not doing anything on the computer while conversion is occuring other than periodically checking the soundtaxi progress and the task manager for CPU limits. I seem to have more skipping problems the closer to 100% CPU usage. Any ideas? thanks luke

It seems like SoundTaxi works completely randomly. On one XP computer I have, it would slow the computer down so terribly that I needed to restart in Safe Mode in order to uninstall it. However, on another XP of mine (a laptop), it works okay.

I purchased the product and they didn't even send me a lic. code! If anyone has any advice please let me know what I can do. I'm stuck with a trial that's no good for anything.

I love this program, it is cheap, easy to use and reliable. well on my pc at least. Just don't close the program in the middle of converting a song. when you put that song on an iPod, it will leave a big gap in the song. And every once in a while, the program will sometimes make the song skip like a skippy peanut butter CD. But overall, it is a good tool. and it kind of takes long.

SoundTaxi converted a number of audiobooks without issues. Great, simple to use product. I activated ver. 2.0

I used Tunebite for a while but the sound quality was terrible. During songs that were quiet you could hear a noise in the background that was terrible. More like static but it ruined the song, especially if it was piano or anything soft like that. I just installed SoundTaxi and have already converted 5 cd's in a half hour. This program is amazing. I'm kind of confused why some people have great experiences and other people think this program is the devil I personally love it.

I payed and installed. Out of 186 songs, 2 errored out. All I had to do on the sound taxi screen is right click the file and ask it to retry. In a couple of seconds both files were finished and did not error and worked fine. Does not slow machine in my case. The machine is just a regular HP out of box system. Not custom at all. Excellent Program.

I downloaded the trial version a couple days ago. Initial install went great (gateway 500gr) im running windows xp w/o sp2. I opened this program for the first time and my computer went slow as hell, I closed all this out...restarted and the program worked like a charm and gave me the 30seconds of converted audio which also burnd to a cd ( i had to see if it would accept the mp3, which it did) I still will not be buying the software, after reading all these comments I am uninstalling it b4 anything happens! haha unless someone wants to give me their license key :) lol ;)

It crashes on my system, appears to work half the time but reads "done with errors". Do not fall for it! I've contacted the company numerous times with no result. Filed a claim with Paypal and still can't get my money returned. Sound Taxi sucks!

Would anyone be willing to convert the itunes 7 songs I have from the Killers. I have both their albums. If not does anyone have the trial license code for SoundTaxi??

I tried the shareware version of SoundTaxi and I didn't have any problems except for the time limitation, so I bought the uncrippled version. Although it isn't very reliable, it does work over half the time. If I add very many songs to the queue the program crashes and won't restart without rebooting the computer first. Also there's no way to save the queue so everytime it crashes all the songs have to be added back in again. Other problems include it skipping every third file in the queue, and it barely utilizes half the available resources for conversion, slowing the conversion process down. First, there is no way to save the queue/conversion list. So lets say I add 100 songs to the list and start it converting, then the program crashes, or something else happens requiring me to exit SoundTaxi and/or reboot the computer. All the songs in the queue are lost. Not the actual songs (files) but the list in the queue is gone. Major pain in the A** especially given how often this program crashes. Second problem is somesort of timeout error. After I've added songs to the queue and started them converting, it launches two threads, each of which starts converting a file. When a thread finishes, it goes to the next file and freezes the program for 60 seconds. Then it says Error Conversion did not start within 60 seconds and goes on to the next song. It keeps doing this throughout the queue, so when it's finished the queue, every third song wasn't converted. I can go back after it's finished and click on the songs with the error and tell the program to convert them again, and it does the same thing (converting two and erroring on the third). If I keep doing this it'll eventually convert all the files in the queue. I don't have a clue why it does this but it really needs to be fixed. The third/last thing is more of a performance issue. With the program running two threads (converting two songs at the same time), my processor shows less than 50% utilization. There is very little hard disk activity going on so that's not the bottleneck. So besides the extra minute added (by the error above) to the time it takes to convert each song , the program is only utilizing half the available resources to it. I want it to use 100% processor time to convert and get them done as quickly as possible. I have e-mail their "support" (support@soundtaxi.info) numerous times but have not even been given the courtesy of an auto-reply to tell me they got the message. I'm setting my e-mail up to resend the message everyday until they reply. If I haven't heard anything in a week, I'll bump it up so it sends it every hour, then every minute if that's what it takes to gget a reply. Given the non-existant support, the performance issues, the program errors, and the problems others seem to have had with this program, I would strongly suggest you don't consider even installing the trial version of this program.

I'm a big fan of this software. I love that it allows me to free my music from DRM so I can use it on different brands of portable media players. This is must have software for any audiophile. It works fast, and the quality of the output is equal to the input.

Odd I just came from another forum which had nothing bad to say about SoundTaxi. I purchased this weekend after trying the trial for one conversion. Hymm does not yet support iTunes 7x's m4p but SoundTaxi does. The only "problem" I had besides the downloaded install file being corrupted 3 times until I found another link on the homepage to it ... once I tried to run it, it could not see my CD drive but the program directed me to an adaptec driver. Although I believe as explained that it is for older OS's such as 95, 98, ME, sometimes XP needs it and sometimes not. Perhaps bad coding, i don't know, but I installed the driver and all worked fine. From other reviews I hear SoundTaxi sound quality is noticibly better than Tunebite. But to be honest, after futzing with the Hymm project for an hour I just Googled m4p to mp3, and SoundTaxi popped up, so I looked, read, tested on m4p and bought. At least it's good to read here that they refund right away if problematic. My only concern wa newer iTunes m4p files and it works great on them. Although they are purchased songs I did not need to log into iTunes in order for it to work as I have read here about Napster. Perhaps if you have bought, try the adaptec driver install (I think it is covered on the website or somewhere in the program) to fix the not recognized CD /DVD drive. I suppose I will not reccommend this to friends now that I have seen the trouble others have had. Guess I got lucky on this one.

Unlike you guys, SoundTaxi actually works great on my system (Year Old HP Media Center). But i am afraid it will mess up my PC. So i might just get that Hymn program