hardware abstraction layer?

clocka · 26 Oct 2010 at 13:28

Hi all,

I really want to buy an very useful mp3 tagging piece of software, but after inspecting the licence conditions it states that I can only swap PCs once - when I do i have to use a one-time-only licence transfer code.

Now, worst case scenario is that I change my graphics card and it see's it a a PC change and I have to use my 1 and only transfer code. If I upgrade another piece of hardware I would then be unable to use the software.

I've had a thought that maybe a virtual machine will act as a hardware abstraction layer and only expose specific hardware information no matter what the underlying hardware is? Does this sound right? does any/all virtual machine software have this ability?

thanks for any ideas/advice!

lurkio · 26 Oct 2010 at 13:34

A vm will fool it probably , but it might fail if you use the vm on another PC

Burnsy2023 · 26 Oct 2010 at 13:55

What does the software vendor describe a "PC" as?

clocka · 26 Oct 2010 at 14:05

it doesnt state what it is. I've sent them an email asking as I often upgrade bits and pieces and dont want it to stop working in a few months.

not sure if I can mention the software (if not please remove this). Its called tuneupmedia.

thanks,

theheyes · 26 Oct 2010 at 15:11

A virtual machine will probably work fine. Just move the virtual disk around. You should technically buy a new OS license for this, but Windows will just stay in notification mode and will still be usable.

Sin_Chase · 26 Oct 2010 at 15:55

If it's a full license screw what the EULA states. Sort of makes sense for an OEM piece of software like Windows but m3 tagging software? Tell em where to go.

Whats wrong with the current free apps btw? MediaMonkey is very good and does tagging from the web.

clocka · 26 Oct 2010 at 16:16

I tried MediaMonkey a couple of years ago but I ended up having to use it in conjunction with another app as well (to add the covers if I remember correctly?).

I will give it another go and see if its the all-in-one solution that tuneupmedia is.

thanks all.

Sin_Chase · 27 Oct 2010 at 03:29

MediaMonkey does do album art. I use it all the time

SiriusB · 27 Oct 2010 at 10:03

clocka said:
I tried MediaMonkey a couple of years ago but I ended up having to use it in conjunction with another app as well (to add the covers if I remember correctly?).

I will give it another go and see if its the all-in-one solution that tuneupmedia is.

thanks all.

It's always worth going back to check software if it has been a while. All sorts of could have changed.