[@Peter Blaise]
Hi, do you save the installer program and reuse it, or do you reinstall Audials One with a fresh installer program each time? Thank you, for your help and advice!

Supposed to be pre-activated, It’s not! Still wants $19.90 to activate. Installs a tonne of components for Microsoft Edge which I do not have or want. This garbage will be totally erased from my computer.

There is no way to activate.

Wow, people are still posting their frustrations, but seem unable to read prior posts that address their complaints, so …

REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT –

Install it over and over, folks, rebooting in between, until

( b ) the first opening screen asks for name and email and sign-in, and offers [ Activate ]

IF we get to the program without going through ( b ) above,
THEN we’re stuck with the demo version, so … reinstall again.

It only took me a couple of attempts to get both ( a ) a desktop icon and ( b ) a sign-in / Activate as the first screen – not as good as last time, but better then Audial’s usual fiasco.

Keep at it, folks, try, try, try again, yes, completely, it’s only downloading and installing 700 MB of utilities to make itself work, what could go wrong?

Audials is the most berserker programming,
– I never know how to use it,
– I must re-teach myself even the basic one or two functions to get anything to work every time I install another edition,
– I never remember those unusual functions in subsequent attempted use,
– I never use Audials except on the giveaway day,
– but I always discover at least one artist I’d never heard of before, an artist I now treasure,
– so, especially free, it’s been worthwhile for me.

But, yes,

– it would be nice if they standardized the user interface to allow us to use everything we have learned from other programs inside Audials, too, as it is everything is random, inconsistent, ambiguous, and hardly communicative at all,

– and it would be nice if their installation routine was robust, self-healing, communicated way more, and actually worked the first time, every time, and kept trying on it’s own until successful.

Oh, and even when it’s Activated and working, it always teases us to buy something, but we do not need to buy anything.

– On the one hand, I’m equally frustrated as others here that Audials leaves so many SOS participants with an unusable installation.

– On the other hand, folks, please, try, try, try again, and you’ll eventually get a nice ( if arduous ) Internet Music/Radio/Video downloader with great search capabilities, and the unique ability to patch two copies of one song together to eliminate one announcer talking over at the beginning, and another announcer talking over at the end, to make one version of the song with both announcers eliminated – amazing.

And, REPEAT, Audials always nags for us to buy a new, full version, but that does not mean that our installed AND ACTIVATED version is not a full, new version.

Now, let’s talk about Franzis and their berserker program installation routine … =8^o
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I’m suprprised and sorry that anyone UNINSTALLED it over and over in between installation attempts, I never thought anyone would try that, considering my advice that worked for me on multiple computers to get over the incessant failures was to INSTALL IT OVER AND OVER until ti succeedes, never to uninstall anything.

However, I agree that Audials has THREE problems:

– 1 – horrible Audials installation failures

– 3 – horrible Audials behavior in NOT joining us here in this discussion.

I tried, over and over, I got it working for me every time, over and over, but 1, 2, 3 above are severe challenges.

Are you listening, Audials?
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My rating = 0
Tree days in a row I tried to install it, but every time it crashed before I even could register, ldt alone try to use.
Uninstalled/re-installed several times, no luck. Finaly, gave up. Some bad flaw in it. Keep away!
Peter.

Part of the problem is that Audials ALWAYS teases us to buy a new version, even when we have a working version properly registered, so the “feeling” is that we have failed to register when the ever-present incessant Audials “update center” pops-up, and the “buy now” message stays on the home page all the time.

Part of the problem is the inordinate amount of supplemental programming Audials depends on, such as Windows C updates of various iterations, LAME audio programming, even Microsoft Edge updates for some reason, and so on, and the unpredictability of whether these “patches” work or compete or fail, and do we need to reboot once, or a few times, do we need to repeat the installation a few times, do we need to both reboot and reinstall multiple times?

Part of the problem is us trying to compensate for not knowing what’s going on during immense Audials installation, so I recommend, based on my own successful experience, to NOT uninstall anything, that just puts us back worse than where we started because that may or may not also remove the supplemental all-purpose Windows and audio updates and patches, leaving a hole where at least before there may have been another program that got updated by Audials suite, and uninstalling Audials does not re-install programs that it replaces, so, instead of uninstalling, reboot, run [ ChkDsk C: /f ] and cleanup utilities if we want, turn off anti-virus ( I have NO anti-virus running, another topic ), and reinstall, reboot, reinstall, reboot, reinstall, until success – never give up, never surrender, never uninstall ( if we want to install – of course we can uninstall if we want to remove it altogether ), Audials One 2021 is out there someplace awaiting our joy.

Again, unless we get:

( a ) a primary screen asking our name, email, login, and password and offering to ACTIVATE, then we have not successfully installed, so try installing again,

( b ) an icon on the desktop – do not run it from the program directory, which will only open the program, not the ( a ) ACTIVATION screen above,

( c ) then in the program, click the person-gear to open Options and see “Product activation” [ AudialsOne Edition ] [ About Audials 2021 ] = success.

And remember, there will always be the ever-present incessant Audials “update center” pop-up, and the “buy now” message that stays on the home page all the time.

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Now, WHY Audials?

There are MANY ways to download music and videos, but this is SMART in knowing how to search and find and download from Internet Radio, as well as from other sites, so this is kind of a one-stop downloader, and unlike torrents, this finds legitimate offerings where artists and publishers have an auditable avenue of compensation.

I don’t use Audials that much, because I have other avenues of music access ( local libraries loan CDs in my area ), but when I do use Audials, I always discover some artist who is new to me, and I am grateful for that.

So, c’mon, folks, IF we want what Audials offers, THEN we ought to be able to figure this out, and if it doesn’t matter, then all we are doing is adding our critique of Audials’ arduous failure-prone installation and AUDIALS’ INEXCUSABLE LACK OF PARTICIPATING IN THESE THREADS to the mix here.

Keep trying, and keep reporting.

Stay safe, mask up, keep our distance, and wash everything, and I hope to see you all as time goes by.
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