When you go in to an HMV store they have headphones, and if you choose you can ask to listen to any album you like.
Magesy provided an excellent way of short-circuiting the paranoid behaviour of the big greedy software houses Magesy lifted the lid and allowed us to try out some good software, and often, some very poor software, which previously we would have blindly paid hundreds of pounds for. I have certainly helped them to survive by giving them thousands of pounds of my own cash, as have many, many others. The oft-quoted remark that software companies are struggling financially is a joke. We are expected as purchasers to become product testers into the bargain and pay through the nose for the privilege. Software developers release version 1 software that is more often than not buggy, unreliable and incomplete. If software is good and I like it I go and buy it, if it is rubbish, I trash it.
It is not good enough to trial a complex piece of software that times out after fifteen minutes and retails at £300. I have spent thousands of pounds on music software (over £15'000). EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO USES THE NET AT SOME POINT WILL HAVE DOWNLOADED A COPYRIGHTED CLIP ON YOUTUBE OR A MUSIC TRACK, OR A PIECE OF SOFTWARE ETC. I am sick to death of pious twits like a couple of the respondents on here who lord it over people who have used Magesy. "Magesy was indeed the best and I for one mourn the loss of this brilliant website. Saw this post on yahoo answers in regards to the dissapearence of lets hope for its speedy return. WIN: VST™, RTAS™, DXi™, ASIO™, DirectSound™ Win XP, Pentium IV/Athlon 3 GHz, 1 GB RAM, DVD drive Win XP, Pentium III/Athlon 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, DVD drive
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