AutoClose MP3 Hammer Giveaway: Lifetime License

As usual this is an ILLEGAL closed source GUI on top of a PIRATED distribution of GPLv3 FFMPEG.EXE renamed to conv.exe they are also dropping a 701 byte mhsound.dll in the user\[username]\appdata\roaming folder for some obscure probably invalid reason… they should not be dropping files there but using app-specific subfolder and then putting DATA files there not executables except that DLL is NOT an executable it contains seemingly random lowercase alphanumerical strings on seperate lines.

This would be far more useful if it were content aware and split on silences not on fixed timing points which could be mid word or mid musical phrase. This is just using FFMPEG.EXE/conv.exe to do blind splitting it is not fit for sale regardless of the fact it is illegal to distribute in law abiding jurisdictions. They *could* have made it a legal product by building FFMPEG.EXE/conv.exe as LGPLv3 compatible AND gave attribution to the FFMPEG.ORG project and included a copy of the LGPLv3 license but the developers are AMORAL in ignoring the IP rights of those FFMPEG.ORG contributors and wanting to enforce their own IP rights!

You can make this Vista or even XP compatible by replacing the FFMPEG.EXE that is renamed to conv.exe in the data folder of the installation for an XP or Vista build, there are current versions of FFMPEG.EXE out there on the internet that are built to support XP and Vista still with most features still enabled, maybe GPU accelerated codecs that rely on certain features of more modern windows removed. Why would the developer put conv.exe and executables into a folder called “data”?

But why would you want to mutilate your media files in such an indiscriminate way even if it *could* be done without re-encoding the content. I’d rather lose a little quality re-encoding but have my split points in good places in a silence at the end of a sentence using something like audacity mark silences in an edit track and then choosing my cut points manually. CRAFTING my output files not just indiscriminately cutting and thinking pah that’ll do, screw the listing experience!

Another program design ERROR that emphasises the amateurish nature of these developers they install into Program Files (x86) by default which is WRITE PROTECTED against un-elevated writes by default, yet places the settings.ini file in the install folder and relying upon an ancient Vista system to virtualise unauthorised writes to a VirtualStore hierarchy designed for badly designed XP and windows 98/ME programs that could write to Program Files hierarchy. The settings.ini and setup.ini should both have been placed into a uniquely named subfolder of the logged in users AppData\Roaming folder so it can be both read and written and not conflict with other similarly named files.

Personally I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS SPLITS WITHOUT RE-ENCODING there is NO option to not re-encode! the output format is specified as if it is going to be re-encoded there is NO COPY option without re-encoding. It is hypothetically possible to do that but not with this GUI as the GUI only includes parameters to re-encode. I strongly suspect this current build is a SCAM,

I just tested this on an 8 hour mp3 recording and the command-line passed to conv.exe includes instructions to re-encode the segments NOT copy them. This giveaway is an illegal IP stealing program which does NOT do what it claims. IT IS A SCAM!

It is foolishness to trust an IP thief to tell you the truth about the product they are producing.

We also cannot cancel the conversion once it’s started… guess i’ll have to use task manager and end the conv.exe process.

It did not detect the forced end task on conv.exe as a failure and assumed the conversion completed successfully so it’s not even checking the code returned by the spawned conv.exe process for success or failure! amateurs.