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Due to some internal changes within the ClaessonEdwards company, we will see some of those changes slowly affecting this forum and the way we go about things. I can’t reveal much of the detail (and a lot of it I’m not privy to) but one of the first things is a new website https://www.breakawaysoftware.com .
Feel free to head over there and take a look around. It’s still a work in progress, so please don’t be too critical. It will refine over time.
One of the first comments will no doubt be that there is no current link for Breakaway Audio Enhancer (BAE). That’s because it is still under development and Leif didn’t want to continue marketing the old product in its current iteration, which was developed for 32 bit Windows XP all those years ago. Please be assured that support is still available and you can still get licence updates etc for the old product. No doubt, there will be some sort of migration path provided when the new version is released.
Old support email addresses will remain active until further advised.
That’s all I know for now, but I or Breakawaysoftware management will keep you up-to-date as information becomes available.
Woooo! First impression of the new website is “oof the font is not very friendly to dyslexia.” I don’t expect a dyslexia-focused font, but a nice full sans serif goes the furthest on screens for me.
But I see there’s a new BreakawayCD playback system, and a spot called BreakawayTools for the pipeline and “new and exciting tools” which I am hype about.
BAE2 must be getting close if the old one has been taken off the market. How long after the Breakaway Broadcasting apps were taken off sale was BreakawayOne introduced? That might give us a ballpark timeframe.
I agree on the font selection. I’ve always liked Arial myself.
As to time frame, we could all guess until the cows come home. I wouldn’t think that a re-write of the code would be anywhere near as difficult as a design-from-scratch project because all the clever stuff has been nutted out in old code and just has to be translated or modified. That assumes that BAE2 v1 would look and feel exactly like BAE1 (but expanded variables and code for 64 bit operation), and the improvements would flow on after that.
As a programmer myself, I find that the design and code module stages are the most time consuming. I have translated many systems from one language to another quite quickly once the structure is in place. I spent a lot of time before the dreaded Y2K bug doing exactly that.
I know that BAE has presented quite the dilemma as it currently sells for US$30 compared to BA1 with HD core at US$160. Would the BAE market stretch to the additional cost? I don’t think so.
Would the BAE market stretch to the additional cost? I don’t think so.
I think this depends on the features and pricing model. If it supports more than 2 channels, for example, that could justify a price bump for a module that HTPC consumers and enthusiasts would likely be interested in. But who knows what’s plausible until we see more about it.
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