Thanks for the info scook. At this point I may just say screw it and stick with LAME (seems to work well). It's been kind of a pain having to deal with the Fraunhofer activation over the years anyway. It only took me about five minutes to set up LAME, and hopefully the Reg keys will continue to work in future versions of Sonar.

Yeah... I just didn't know they had to pay someone else for the license. Makes sense now but still would have been nice to have had it included in the Suite. Meh. Doesn't matter now anyway.

I'd rather get charged for the license as part of the cost of Sonar (and have that go up a few bucks) then get asked to upgrade every time I forget that Sonar doesn't offer this pretty basic feature stock.

If you're willing to pay extra for it, pay the twenty bucks and then you'll have it forever.  Better yet, use the $20 Sonar just gave all registered users and use it to pay for the MP3 encoder. 

StepD - yeah, I only use the embedded mp3 player once when I install SONAR to make sure it still works. The upside of the the new unlocking process, is that it is a one time event. Upgrades do see the previous mp3 status and unlock too.

scook


It is a small on-time charge that, for those that do not use mp3 or elect to product mp3 by some other method are not forced to pay when the purchasing SONAR. I though this discussion was exhausted years ago, guess not.

I'm going to venture to guess that at this point the vast, vast, vast majority of people recording music, are exporting to MP3 with enough regularity to justify it.

daveny5

I'd rather get charged for the license as part of the cost of Sonar (and have that go up a few bucks) then get asked to upgrade every time I forget that Sonar doesn't offer this pretty basic feature stock.

If you're willing to pay extra for it, pay the twenty bucks and then you'll have it forever.  Better yet, use the $20 Sonar just gave all registered users and use it to pay for the MP3 encoder. 

This should be an "out of the box" feature like in every other DAW.


Try and name me DAWs that you know for a fact don't have this feature other than Sonar. Maybe there are some, but I don't know of any.

that horse ain't getting any deader

scook


that horse ain't getting any deader

It's not a dead horse. Cakewalk can change this at any time. Us pretending like it's ok to not have an MP3 encoder build into a DAW in this day and age certainly won't do anything to change that, whereas a group of people voicing their opinion might at least cause Cakewalk to reocncider.

Who is pretending? It is OK by me. Sure they could change their mind. As a matter of fact, they just gave every X1 and X2 owner the opportunity to add it free of charge. All they had to do was use the $20 coupon for the license.

Is this the one to get for X2? It mentions X1 but not X2: http://www.store.cakewalk...ductid=10-CWMA1.00-10E