Originally Posted By: DeaconBlues09
Originally Posted By: bowlesj

It occurred to me that BIAB will never really run out of features because they keep putting in new real tracks and this is a bottomless pit. That is primarily why I went from 2012 to 2016 in 4 years (to get the full set of real tracks). It had a few new useful features but that was not the reason for purchase. Two group members who have BIAB complained about my midi tracks :-)


I've always felt very strongly this way about the updates, and all the more so after upgrading to 2019. I think there are enough folks on here that seem to care primarily about the RTs such that BiaB has simply gotten complacent--which is a shame--because it's probably one of the main reason that, among the plethora of music and instrument-related forums I frequent, I last saw BiaB mentioned in 2015 or something. The program just gets more and more dated and hobbled, but instead of fixing the damn thing, they keep piling on more RTs like a deli owner that keeps adding more mayo to the tuna that went off two days ago and needs to be replaced.


This makes sense actually. I think one thing that could be done here is to make it easier to send in dumps and problem reports and to really emphasize they want this info in this forum. BIAB stopped the count in on me not too long ago not once but twice. I had to do a system reset to fix it each time. I didn't report it. If they emphasized they want to know about this I might have pointed it out. The crash that caused me to restart BIAB then get that "You need to activate" error is another example. If I knew they were begging for being told about these errors I might have thought to screen capture it and send it in. Not only that the MutliCharts bug tracker and feature request system would help. The MultiCharts people worked really hard to rise to the top and from what I can see stay there. MutliCharts is maybe 15 years old. Part of doing this would be trying hard to find new energy for the company. Being 64 and comparing my drive and energy to when I was 22 is what I am talking about (no comparison). It reminds me of my dentist. He just semi-retired and his son is taking over the office with his loving dad's guidance. It also reminds me of two 3rd party programs for searching for strings in MS-access to help with programming. They were both good. The owners got old and sick. They did not sell their products. They are gone and do not work on the latest releases. What is strange is Microsoft does not have this feature built in. Lets hope BIAB stays with us.

Last edited by bowlesj; 12/03/18 08:16 AM.
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