Like others I have used previous offerings of this product & encountered far too many issues to even consider installing again......in fact reading this thread has reinforced that decision......indeed the reply from the Zortam team means I'll pass on any future offerings as well......not prepared to be a guinea pig or effective beta tester

I see there's a lot of issues with this giveaway prior and now

First to the company support

I would suggest that you advise to not update the program to keep the current licensed copy

change the pop up to inform your potential customers that the current license has expired instead of implying they are thief's

To the users.

the licensed giveaway is only valid for the current version and to keep the licensed you need to disable the autu update in the general setting of the program.

If you owned a previous version you will need to put in the current license code ignore the RUDE warning and put in the new Reg info and all your old settings should be preserved but like with anything the safe thing is to backup your data files before upgrading ;)

I hope this was helpful to those still willing to try out or keep this program :)

I will pass on this. I have tried it in the past and did not find it useful. Thank you for the offer

improvements needed program missing important features like a play all button or play directory buttons... also needs mouse over labels so people know what they do, esp on zortam Player It is very attractive but still very unstable in several different areas player needs internal make over It does not like switching modes while playing Experiment with it and you will find the faults.

I thought this program would be of use to me. I backed up a folder of .mp3 files and then did some processing to add missing things. As someone mentioned before, it renamed album and artist to gibberish. I restored the ruined files, and uninstalled this program.

Let me start off by saying I had got this program awhile back from this very site and was very happy with it. I used it and it really did a great job with my music library which is quite extent. I have a large collection and last night I went to do some more work on it and started my Zortman program and that's where my problems started.
Up popped a small window stating I had an illegal copy and had to purchase a license before I could use the program. Well I wasn't very happy considering I have used this program to clean up my library and now it doesn't work.
So I contacted Zortman last night via their contact them from their site. So this morning I was quite surprised to see an email from Zortman with a lifetime code and in my name which I thought was really good of them. I had said some things in my message to them I was a little sorry for before I gave them a chance to come good for a technical error on their end because I had a legal copy up till last night.
So I finished my morning coffee and figured I would put in my code and go back to their site and thank them for my lifetime copy. Needless to say that never happened because I put the code in and it didn't work so their I was ticked off all over again.
So I saw the GOTD email in my email box and what a surprised to find Zortman was the GOTD today. So I used the activation code and again have a working version of Zortman not a lifetime one which I thought was really good of them but as long as nothing goes wrong like it must have to make my version illegal I will be able to use it.
Now that I have that out of the way I would like to give the good news which in a way I hate to do because of what they have done by giving me a lifetime code that was about as good as the one I had before I had one that was illegal according to them and one that didn't work but now thanks to GOTD I have a working one again and am happy.
This is a great program like I said earlier I have used this to take care of my large library of music and it works great! If you only get the name or artist of the song it will search and fill in all the blanks.
Once you get your library in order using this program and you look at it in the folder it looks fantastic. All your info for each song or album is all there and it looks very professional.
This program installed and I used the code and name to activate it and it all went flawless. But if I ever end up with an illegal copy notice again it will be the last time I will use it and find a new program to use. I am thinking on doing it anyway just to have a backup program in case this ever happens again which I would suggest you all do. Have another program ready that you have already familiarized yourself with so you won't end up in a panic situation like I did.
Thanks GOTD you have came through again and the timing couldn't have been better !! Thanks to the Zortman's program site for offering the program again as again the timing couldn't have been better. But I will suggest you do some checking on lifetime codes you send out and make sure they work as it is very disappointing to a customer to think a company has come good for a wrong on their end only to find out that it doesn't work either.
That's how you lose customers which if this copy ever comes up illegal you will lose this customer !!

I had previous version offered on February 2016.
After some time, it gets as illegal copy and closes.

the biggest improvement i can suggest is better support for international music.

Hi everybody. :-)

I found there's a portable version of this program and I wanted to try it.
An exe was downloaded...???
I have then INSTALLED the PORTABLE version.
The INSTALLER wasn't signed:

"Do you want to allow this app from an UNKNOWN publisher to make changes to your device?"

I wanted this primarily as a simple CD ripper. Three times I have tried to rip. An entire CD twice and just one track. I get an error of "encountered improper argument" or some similar verbiage. And NO MP3 files are created. I will try with another CD but as of now this looks like it will be uninstalled.

I do not like software that uploads and downloads info, tags, files and who knows what else in the background without telling me what is transferring and why. Some of my tags where changed into Chinese language.
Therefore, uninstalled.

Well, this certainly sounded good. It's the first GOTD I've taken a second look at in a few weeks. I always read the comments as the deciding factor to try an application or not.

After reading through these, Zortam needs Customer Service 101 and GOTD 101 as well. Maybe next time, you guys will have it together as your product sounds very nice in pixels.

Receives such a message during installation The setup files are corrupted Please obtain e new copy of the program
I installed a few times and the message in August Repeat the Windows 8.1

Had tried this Zortam MP3 media studio before.
Somehow it cannot make the grade.
Will be skipping this.
.
MP3 Tag Express by George Taylor (another Giveawayof the day) is better.
TagScanner by Sergey Serkov is portable and FREE. It is better.
Mp3tag by Florian Heidenreich is FREE and average.

I, for one, certainly do NOT appreciate informing me that my previous giveaway version of Zortam Mp3 Studio is an illegal copy.

You need to get yourselves in order if you're going to receive positive comments from faithful users.

I'll join with others in giving today's stuff a miss.

And - again I ask why - on the giveawayoftheday.com page the "Vote to get it as the giveaway" continues with the same-same WinX / Syncio programs.
You'd expect any vote to be completed in days - not weeks!

I am appalled at the comment from ZORTA SUPPORT. I had an older version of this program and was looking forward to the updated Giveaway. However, after this extremely sarcastic comment I'll not be downloading this one. It also has to do with that "half-hour" test as well.

People here that download programs often rely on those "half-hour" tests to see if a program is going to be suitable for their needs. Personally, I have found these comments extremely useful in my choices of programs to try out.

I certainly hope that Giveaway will be looking at the comments and will reconsider the NEXT time a "ZORTA" product is offered.

Installed on Windows 10 without any problems and already registered. That said GUI is very cluttered and the tag editor didn't work. Uninstalled, another waste of time.

Go a bit excited about this, so I checked it out.

1. no drag and drop..

2. Having to import folders to work on MP3s is a bit cumbersome to me. Much prefer Mp3Tag in that you just point at the folder you want to work on. (Mp3tag is free)

3. The whole interface is cumbersome to use for me. It looks like it tried to do many things poorly. "Jack of all trades and master of none"

4. Clicked on an Mp3 that had no tags... Dialog opened stating "Encountered an improper argument." then zplayer crashed with "stackhash_c676 code c0000374"

5. So I then focues on what I wanted from a tag editor: Multiple Tags: Sadly it can't handle them. And tag info after the first marker is simply "Lost".

6. Doesnt appear that you can find out where the software searches for it's cover art. I like to use "https://archive.org/details/coverartarchive" if needed... I see no option to choose where you get your cover art.

7. Normalize no mention of what method is used. No ability to chose a method. I would have liked to have tested "Loudness normalization by RMS value"

8. No Manual. Another trend is this modern age. There are no manuals help maximise a tools use. IF there was I could have searched it with cntr-f and found any regerence to "Cover Art"

I'll stick wth mp3tag and foobar which FULLY support multiples tags. (I beleive this means the tags in the filed are separated by binary 00). Pass on Zortam till it's more mature in this area.

Foobar is also free.

I'd be interested to know if it uses RMS normalisation.. Not many use this excellent method.

Time is precious, I may be wrong with some of my comments, but in the 30 minutes I had spare this is what I found (or didnt).

I had this programme before, it used to work great, but now changes MP3 file information into Chinese :-( so in effect programme is useless, support answered my email, then said they would look into it, and never offered afix