Subject:Is Anybody Listening?

Posted by: Rednroll

Date:3/18/2001 10:40:02 AM

Seems like there's a ton of questions and requests to be
able to do the things that CD architect once did. Is
anyone listening at SF? Even on a non pro user use, these
questions arise of how to burn an entire MP3 album, or how
to burn a large wave file of a live performance or a
recorded Vinyl side. Why don't you guys enable v5.0 to
recognize CD architect and have it bundled with SF 5.0 and
have a disclaimer that this software is no longer supported
and you must have a MMC compliant CDR? You should even
post Cd architect in your free downloads section once you
implement it in 5.0. Seems like you're doing this with
acoustic modeler now. You're not selling that anymore but
you bundled that with 5.0, so what the heck is the
difference? When are you gonna listen to the customer's
needs and do something about this?

Guys, I'm a electrical engineer doing designing on, CD and
DVD mechanisms and I know when my company decides to not
develope a feature or get rid of something the customer
desires, then we lose sales to other companies. It's the
basic principles of supply and domand. Right now
everyone's domanding for CD architect and SF is refusing to
supply it, guess where your sales are going? The same
place your stocks have been going.

Get a clue,
Brian Franz

Subject:RE: Is Anybody Listening?

Reply by: ATP

Date:3/18/2001 11:30:43 AM

Brian, i agree with you but the reason Sonic Foundry
doesn't want to add CD Architect to SF5 seems pretty
obvious to me. if they incorporate it in SF5 they will have
to support it. all the way. they will have to spend time
solving problems users might have, not to mention making
upgrades, answering e-mails, hiring people to spend time on
the program, etc.

now i'm not saying i like it, but from their point of view
i can understand it. they decided to drop it in order to
save time/money/whatever. and yes, i too feel this has been
a dumb move by Sonic Foundry. but there it is and no matter
how much we complain, they will not bring it back. or they
would have done it by now, don't you think?

in fact, i wouldn't be surprised if Sound Forge 5 is going
to be the last version altogether. Sonic Foundry seems to
focus on Vegas and related programs rather than the audio
tools they became famous with. call me negative, but
really, i wouldn't be surprised if in the next year or so
Sound Forge will get the same treatment as CD Architect has
now. a few updates maybe, only to come to a sudden stop
just like that.

besides, who needs Sound Forge 5 when you have Sound Forge
4.5 (with CD Architect) or even Wavelab?

Subject:RE: Is Anybody Listening?

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:3/19/2001 9:18:25 AM

I totally agree with you and the SF reasoning not wanting
to spend the resources on supporting CD architect. The
only problem with this is that they won't have to support
sound forge either because, no one will purchase a program
that has only half the functionality that everyone needs.
This was also my prediction when they first discontinued CD
architect. That this would mean the demise of Sound Forge.
I just thought SF would be smart enough to release a new
version of Sound Forge that would pick up where CD
architect left off. No one ever totally wipes out
functionality of a program without adding something better
to replace it. This is just bad business thinking.