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Hi, Any UK members ordered upgrades on USB flash drives yet and can give an idea of what extra UK customs payment might be on the flash drive? Hoping it won't be as bad as the hard drive...... UK customs supplementary £44 
BIAB 2022 PLUSPAK (ext HD), 49PAKs, STYLESPAKs 1 - 6, Win 7 64bit PC, REAPER, Ozone, Adobe Audition CS6, EZ Drummer3 + EZ Keys,Soundcraft MTK22, Behringer X Touch Universal Controller,, SE Gemini/Rode NT2/Neumann/Shure mics
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Hi Kev,
although I'm not in UK but in Italy, I can tell you that the packages that I usually order (the upgrade DVDs and a hard copy of the user manual), every year it comes WITHOUT any custom fees of any sort... Maybe because it's a simple envelope with some stamps on it...
And so speaking, I doubt that any envelope with a USB stick inside (that is, arguably it will be so much smaller than the envelope with the DVDs) will be subject to any custom fees at all...
So... Good luck!
Merry Christmas to all fellow BIAB users!
Antonio from Italy
I muri sono creature... scontrose
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Hi Antonio, Thanks a lot for your reply. I certainly hope that you are right!  I have ordered small items like new flash drives from China in the past and they have arrived with no extra UK charges but not sure whether the BIAB update content might make a difference. Hope you have a great Christmas too Antonio! Regards Kev.
BIAB 2022 PLUSPAK (ext HD), 49PAKs, STYLESPAKs 1 - 6, Win 7 64bit PC, REAPER, Ozone, Adobe Audition CS6, EZ Drummer3 + EZ Keys,Soundcraft MTK22, Behringer X Touch Universal Controller,, SE Gemini/Rode NT2/Neumann/Shure mics
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I ordered the USB Flash drive and customs wanted to charge me £44.01 for it as PG have to say the value is $129 as the software is on the stick. I refused delivery and i'm down $10.00 plus shipping. My advice buy a stick and do it yourself. That is unless you can afford to pay the extra £44.01 for it.
Last edited by Bvtch!; 12/19/16 06:15 AM.
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Thanks Bvtch. Not really what I wanted to hear as the flash drive is probably on it's way by now
BIAB 2022 PLUSPAK (ext HD), 49PAKs, STYLESPAKs 1 - 6, Win 7 64bit PC, REAPER, Ozone, Adobe Audition CS6, EZ Drummer3 + EZ Keys,Soundcraft MTK22, Behringer X Touch Universal Controller,, SE Gemini/Rode NT2/Neumann/Shure mics
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Hopefully you'll get lucky... But I was'nt impressed when i got the email from UPS. And promptly told them to return it. Shame really, there really should be a law that prohibits companies such as PG having to add the whole value to something like a data stick because it contains the software (unless it is purchased this way).
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Yes.....Whereas I don't blame PG in any way. I can understand the Customs charge on the hard drive with 90GB+ of full version software program to some extent, but when it's just an upgrade back-up and extra Realtracks which fit very comfortably on a 32GB flash drive in a small jiffy bag already charged at $10 (+ $20 postage) then get stung for £44 Sterling (about $55 US) retrospective charge then the bargain flash drive back up becomes an expensive accessory.  Thanks for the info anyway. I guess I'll have to see what happens but haven't a lot of hope in view of your experience Bvtch. Think I'll have to forgo the flash drives in future.
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I bought a 256G flash drive off Amazon (SanDisk Ultra 256GB Flash SDCZ48 256G for $60) and then copied all 100,000+ 100G install files, user tracks, etc. for the EverythingPAK from the hard drive to the flash drive.
I then timed the loading of BIAB on the hard drive versus the flash drive. It came up a few seconds faster on the flash drive. Everything is running perfectly. It did take several hours to copy everything over, but once it finished, all is well.
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That's great. I'm curious, is that a USB 3.0 flash drive?
BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.
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That's great. I'm curious, is that a USB 3.0 flash drive? Amazon sells both 2.0 $57.49 and 3.0 $59.65. Charlie
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Oh yes, but I wanted to know which he is using, so we can recommend it to others with confidence. When some of us (including PG Music, as I recall) tested using USB flash drives over a year ago, we had mixed results.
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I like the CLOUD idea ... might be something worth looking into.
+1, Tom!
Sorry, but if BiaB went to Cloud only I guess I would not own it. My studio systems stays off any type of network, even my home network, period. I got burned years ago, and never again for me.
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Yeah, some of us old fogies still have DVD drives. But more and more laptops, and especially more MACs, simply don't have them anymore. (It'd be nice if they upped the number of USB ports, but that's another issue.) So this makes way sense.
Peter, I wonder... what would be the future of BIAB in the Cloud? Could you store the RealTracks and the generating software in a central cloud server, and BIAB basically pings that with the chords and style to generate tracks? In a couple of years, you may never have to distribute a hard drive again.... That would be a great idea. You could bridge that gap between Mac and PC and users could share instrument tracks right from there.
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