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benign · Nov 12, 2004, 06:57 AM

Panic has finally retired Audion.

All that GUI goodness gone to the land of no-support.

Full story...
http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/

Audion is now a (minus MP3Pro/no support) freeware app.

Mmmm... GUI good times - my Favs were...

Millennium · Nov 12, 2004, 07:03 AM

I used Audion for years; still do, on occasion. My favorite skin was the old classic FishFace in its Aqua incarnation.

Did they really take MP3Pro out of the last version, though? That would be a real shame. I'd thought that they hadn't changed the version, but just posted a serial number that anyone could use.

Randman · Nov 12, 2004, 07:07 AM

No reason to create the same thread twice.

benign · Nov 12, 2004, 07:29 AM

Originally posted by Randman:
No reason to create the same thread twice.

Millennium:
Panic/Audion now have a freeware version - minus the 'MP3Pro'.
Paid users of the last release 3.0.2 can still download and
use the 'MP3Pro' enabled version.

Rand 'Too anally retentive for his own good' man:
Many would not find out that very useful software
is being made available for free if I just posted in the
GUI forum - consider it a service to those in the software
forum who don't already get a steady dose of GUI goodness.

Randman · Nov 12, 2004, 07:58 AM

Just posting it in one thread will serve people better. What if someone has a comment? Do they make it both threads? What about PowerBook users of Audion? Should the same thread be repeated there? What about the lounge?
Besides, Cabel's e-mail (which I got this mornin) is going to people who have it. There's nothing served by the same thread twice. That's not anal, that's common sense.

1800-whatever · Nov 12, 2004, 08:07 AM

Still use Audion daily, I think it's a shame there will never be an Audion 4, but I guess they didn't have much of a choice.

Favourite skins:
Gizmo 2.0 and Audion Ipod 1.2

threestain · Nov 12, 2004, 08:28 AM

I for one am glad that benign alerted me to this. Great news its free, awful news no more development.

ah well you win some you lose some...

BZ · Nov 12, 2004, 02:17 PM

Great application. Bought it WAY BACK WHEN and sorry to say, stopped using it when iTunes + iPod came out (3 years ago)?

Love Panic though. Transmit is a great application.

Bought Unison with my discount. Not sure what I am going to do with it, but there it is.

BZ

-Q- · Nov 12, 2004, 02:38 PM

Originally posted by BZ:
Great application. Bought it WAY BACK WHEN and sorry to say, stopped using it when iTunes + iPod came out (3 years ago)?

Love Panic though. Transmit is a great application.

Bought Unison with my discount. Not sure what I am going to do with it, but there it is.

BZ

Unison has been great for finding obscure files and stuff. The newsgroups are overlooked now with all the P2P apps out there. But everytime I can't find something on Acquisition, it's there on usenet.

Great story on the retirement of Audion on the panic site.

darcybaston · Nov 12, 2004, 07:25 PM

I had registered SoundJam right before Audion was to add encoding.

Today I enjoy using Transmit and Unison. Thanks for the great software Panic!

CaptainHaddock · Nov 12, 2004, 11:13 PM

"Bought Unison with my discount. Not sure what I am going to do with it, but there it is."

Unison is awesome, the best USENET reader available on any platform. If you don't know what the USENET is, you should read up on it, check out Unison's pre-installed favourites, or try searching for newsgroups on topics that interest you.

Personally, I use it to listen to music all day. I open up alt.* music newsgroups for the genres I like, and I stream and listen to the songs that get posted each day. I've found a lot of new groups I like that way.

ReggieX · Nov 13, 2004, 03:16 PM

Originally posted by Millennium:
Did they really take MP3Pro out of the last version, though? That would be a real shame. I'd thought that they hadn't changed the version, but just posted a serial number that anyone could use.

MP3pro is essentially useless and incompatible with just about everything out there. No big loss, IMO.

JLL · Nov 14, 2004, 07:14 AM

Originally posted by Randman:
Just posting it in one thread will serve people better. What if someone has a comment? Do they make it both threads? What about PowerBook users of Audion? Should the same thread be repeated there? What about the lounge?

What about us only looking at categories containing threads of interest? I don't wan't to browse through every category to look for Mac OS X software threads - they belong in Software.

threestain · Dec 20, 2004, 03:08 PM

Can I ask a question? As support for audion is now dead, can anyone else tell me why it will no longer start up?

I use it solely to play my mp3s on my external drive (as itunes doesn't seem to play well with split libraries) and it doesn't want to load anymore. its annoying!

Chuckit · Dec 20, 2004, 03:26 PM

Have you tried deleting the prefs?

threestain · Dec 20, 2004, 03:39 PM

yep, to no avail, and my custom playlist. what I'm think I'm going to have to do is re-install

threestain · Dec 21, 2004, 10:53 AM

well I've downloaded a fresh copy of the disk image and rebuilt the directory on the external drive and trashed all the audion stuff I had. Hopefully now it will work!