SOFTWARE I WANT, BUT CANT FIND : ================================ PLEASE send me links to similar pages if you know of any. CONTENT: - THE PRICE I'M WILLING TO PAY - MAILTOOL - RADIO HI-FI MUSIC RECORDER (Several progs) THE PRICE I'M WILLING TO PAY : ------------------------------ I'm a private user. If I use the program less than once a month : 0,-. If I use the program less than an hour a month : 13,- USD If I use the program less than two hours a month : 30,- USD If I use the program not more than 3 hours per week in average : 50,- USD If I use the program a lot : 65,- USD Updates to a software package : 7-13,- USD (Depending on how much I use it) If the program price is higher than above, I think most private users will try to get an illegal copy, or find some other piece of software or do without it. Many software houses price their products FARE above this, and by doing so they encourage illegal copying, and LOOSE A LOT OF MONEY (assuming distribution and sale by the net, no hardware, books etc delivered.) They could have the whole WORLD as their market if they priced their products at a price that most private users find fair to pay. And that price heavily depends on the accumulated average usage of the program. It shouldn't be to difficult to make sure that the more the fully featured "demo" program is used, the more irritating it gets to use it, and thus, the more tempting to actually pay the fair price that is being asked. And you can then select which price to pay, according to how much you will be going to use the program. REQUIREMENTS ON VARIOUS SOFTWARE MAILTOOL (netscape messenger) -------- WHY: When I after a while have hundreds of mails, most of them with rather silly titles, it becomes so time consuming to find THE mail you knew you had somewhere, that you just give up. HOW: (a) The mail tool must give the oprtunity of easily changing the title of any mail at any time. A sensible title makes a mail easier to find. HOW: (b) When moving/archiving a mail it could be possible to give (Be asked for if the user preferres) key words (Like META KEYWORDS in ALTAVISTA), that a search function can later on search for, along with the title (and optionally the content). RADIO HI-FI MUSIC RECORDER (Don't know of such SW). --------------------------------------------------- WHY: At night, when I'm asleep, the various radio stations broadcast their best programs, containing mostly very good music, and almost no speech (Just the way I want a radio program). But I'm sleeping at night, so I have to do with programs brodcastet at day time, which are no good (too much talk, and same tunes over and over again). HOW: (a) FM quality is 16Khz which gives 32Khz sampling rate as minimum ! .... Sound Blaster ADPCM is acceptable though not the best. CD Quality PCM is fine of course, but demands a bit more than the 2Gigabytes possible with windows95. Real time MPEG-2 compression at about 160Kb/s Stereo, would be nice if available. Should be possible to record up to 24hours real time HI-FI stereo quality onto a sufficiently large hard disk. HOW: (b) Playback is of course important, several sliders for hours minutes, seconds will be needed to wind forth and back. A special button for skipping 3,4,5,6 minutes ahead (to get rid of the tune you don't like, or to skip the hourly news). HOW: (c) Maybe I want to keep part of the recording. I will then need a program cooperating with the Playback program. It must copy what is being played back into a Ring-Buffer-like file with a size of aprox 10minutes, overwriting itself (in circle) all the time. Then when I push the button "Keep last 10 minutes", the tune that I just heard and enjoyed, and want to keep is copied into a (in ahead specified) directory (Automatic sequential file naming, don't ask me, except maybe tell me which name will be used and give me the possibility to change it in some setup menu), well,... I will get what was played the last 10minutes, which will be more than just the tune I want, but it will then be easy for me to load that (not so huge) file of only 10 minutes in a wave editor (goldwave), and remove parts in the beginning and the end that is not part of the tune. HOW: (d) Wave Editor, already exists (see above), but not for MPEG that I know of (goldwave is nice). HOW: (e) Then I will maybe have a directory with tunes, which I will most likely want to keep in some high quality MPEG-2 format. So I need a program that automaticly converts all the .wav .mp? in that directory to the selected MP2 format in a new or existing destination directory. MP3 is NOT, I repeat NOT suitable for HI-FI music, it removes far to much of the details in the music. Besides many of the radio stations broadcast in MPEG layer 2. MORE PROGRAMS TO COME AS I ENCOUNTER THEM ----------------------------------------- .....