If there isn't some way to bulk adjust measures, it would be nice if that feature was added. Just a suggestion though.Īfter importing the song all measures started 20ms too early, but I couldn't find a way to adjust them all at once so I had to go through the whole song and move them manually.

For paying customers I think it's good enough to use hostname and IP address, instead of more advanced system fingerprinting, to detect if someone has been sharing their license key, and in that case revoke it. If the trial was unable to export data and could only save in AS' proprietary format, or if it had a limit of not being able to process songs more than 1 minute long, then it wouldn't matter if people could reset the trial timer. I think one alternative to having the license utility would be to just make the trial version more limited. Creating a user that has read access to system file isn't trivial either, so I went with the lazy option, to run it as root and trust the dev when they say that license_utility doesn't write anything (because who knows, it might have a mechanism that fucks up your system if it thinks someone is trying to circumvent the copy protection, and like all code those things can fail.) I would've like to install AS on my largest drive, but since it's nosuid mounted the license_utility wouldn't run, and I had to move it to my system SSD. It sucks to have your hard work pirated, but they seem to always be able to remove the protection, and the end result being that the pirated version has a better user experience than the legally bought one. I understand that it's probably necessary to avoid people just deleting a file to reset the 30 day trial, and that it probably helps with copy protection, but it feels like this might hurt paying customers (and prospective customers who want to try the demo) more than it stops piracy.

Maybe it's possible to distribute AS using AppImage or Flatpak instead, and get rid of these extra steps? Even if I can delete the Qt tools manually later, the required dependencies are 700MB which seems a bit excessive, given that I already have Qt5 on my system. And contrary to AS install instructions, it's not possible to deselect 'Qt tools' so it always installs those. To install Qt you also need to register an account, which isn't too hard, but annoying. Google eventually led me to an archive download page, where I could get the correct installer, which btw is 1.3GB. First of all, finding the exact version wasn't entirely easy, as qt.io seems to try really hard to get visitors to download whatever version/installer they think is best. I have Qt 5.12.8 installed on my system, but I still needed to download a different version just for AS. I appreciate a Linux version of the software, but honestly installation was quite painful. It's also very generous of the developer to have a 30-day trial without limitations to the software I wanted to transcribe a piano song from an anime, and AS got 99% of it correct without any user input. Some feedback after using AS demo for a few hours:įirst of all, it's a very impressive piece of software.

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