Did they close the old authorization License Manager?

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Hi.

I have been using bfd 3.4.5.28 because bfd 3.5 is a buggy garbage software.

But today I found out that I can’t get authorization from the old License Manager software.

it seems that they closed the server.

is there anyone experiencing same issue?

how can they close the server for the old version when they released such a crap update like 3.5 and still don’t fix it. I can’t understand.

please let me know if there is a way to use the old version at this moment.

Thanks

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@sjun . . . sorry, can’t help your issue with the old server, but wanted to relate something I noticed just in the last day regarding BFD licensing. I’ve been using BFD3.5 almost every day for a while now, and every frigging time you launch it . . . it phones home for a license authorization. In the last day, that stopped . . . so clearly something has changed on their license servers.

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Thank you for the info!

Actually, that it requires authorization every time I open the app is the one of the reasons I hate the 3.5 version.

It seems they are doing something without letting users know. That’s so bad. When for the professional musicians, stablity is important.

Hope you not have any issue using it.

Thanks

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I too rolled back to 3.4.5.28 a while ago. 3.5 is rubbish and a hostage situation. Pretty close to ‘abondoneware’ at this point. The familiar, “inMusic is where good software goes to die”.

On topic, I opened the old LM today and it loads up and shows it’s connected.I don’t have anything new to authorize or BFD hasn’t hiccuped requiring a re-auth for me recently, which it has done a couple of times in the past. My LM is v 3.0.6.22(2022). My Win 11 PC is old so I still have the old License Manager. Had BFD since v2.

I’m sorry this doesn’t solve your issue other than to say what version I have and it does load up and connect. Maybe check your firewall in case something chaged access out of the blue, like an update?

Regards,
Steve S
NJ-US

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Thank you for the reply.

I just checked the connection with old LM and found out it came back working again.

Maybe it was a temporarily issue. I just have rolled back to 3.4.5 again.

Hope the development team release good update in the future.

Thanks.

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You’re welcome!

That’s great news. I sure know how frustrating it can be sometimes. :woozy_face:

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Reading these posts scared me so I launched BFD 3.5. Opened and worked just fine, although it took a long time, as usual. Win10