Liquid Audio sells its patents to Microsoft

Funny you should mention Liquid Audio. A serious flaw I've noticed from time to time, is the unsolicited inclusion of unwanted software which many companies bundle with their own products. [for profit of course] Microsoft, certainly, is notorious for this. But another prime offender is Adaptec. (Now 'Roxio') The cdrom which came with my first (now dead) cd burner includes 'Easy CD Creator & Direct CD, but it *also* mandatorily installs an outdated Liquid Audio player, a crummy device with crummy sound, for crummy L.A. files which are hard to find (thank god, who needs 'em?) whether I like it or not. This necessitates the manual UN-installing of the damned thing every time I use the cdrom. It's an evil practice that should be banned. -- Mike --

Glad i wasn't the only one that noticed that freakin' problem. Only to feel vindicated i transfered the program to a cd-r, then destoyed it! Whew! It was like a cigarette after sex! And i don't even smoke!.....cigarettes! Mommy! What's sex?

I had a Liquid Audio player on my PC many years back. It didn't last very long on the system and I never got hold of an audio track. Now, it's like the old 8-track system. EasyCD Creator came with my last Samsung 8x8x32 CD-writer. It didn't have any Liquid Audio software with it. I later changed to Nero and have been using it ever since ;-)

Mr. Fat - hello again !! (second post tonight!) <the other was about Napster, sniff> :-) Just wondering.....why bother even transferring that god-awful clunker (Liquid Audio) to cdr? No wonder they're bankrupt. Only some godawful DRM (Digital Rights' Management)- Obsessive conglomerate like Microsoft, would fork over 7 million bucks for their doomed DRM security system! I downloaded a total of (I think), *three* Liquid Squiggly Audio tunes, which were heavily guarded in nature, and sucked in musical quality. Eight-track cartridges were, in comparison, a *much* better value methinks. (Mr. William Gates, I think, has FAR too much spare time and $$$ on his hands). Seanbyrne: (Hi!). I guess even Adaptec decided to smarten up and dumped the Liquid Audio Dinosaur. I don't much like Nero, ('cause I'm nuts, I guess), but if I have to, I can buck the morally-conscious crowd, and get a fully-cracked Nero install, off of Grokster via "KeyGen" (Key Generator). I'm sorry, but.... a) I'm very very poor b) I'm morally corrupt c) I'm outta here .... -- Mike --