Topic: Adobe gives away Adobe Audition 3

[Ozpeter]

http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/creative-s uite-2-activation-end-life.html

Adobe have shut down the activation server for old products and they have posted links, and serial numbers, for activation-free versions which can be downloaded by anyone with an Adobe ID (which you can obtain on the spot).

If you follow the link given on that page, you will be asked to enter - or create - an Adobe ID. Then you will be taken to a page which gives download links and serial numbers to a slew of end-of-life Adobe software, including Adobe Audition 3, which while lacking the enhancements of later versions, includes stuff they didn't re-code for those versions.

You can also download the whole Creative Suite 2.

Worth having in your audio toolbox even if you use other programs normally.  The restoration stuff is still very good.

[rastasean]

Thanks for posting!

has anyone ever used the creative cloud? Looks pretty interesting, but it would be nice if there was a pay as you go plan.

[asobriquet]

Thanks a lot!

[yousef]

I do like Audition 3 for multitrack stuff. And some of the bundled plug-ins are more than acceptable.

Thanks for the link.

[Tom McCreadie]

http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/creative-s uite-2-activation-end-life.html

Direct clicking that link will give a 404 error, It needs repairing to:

http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/creative-suite-2-activation-end-life.html

oops someone beat me to the editing of my post  :-)
   

[runonce]

http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/creative-s uite-2-activation-end-life.html

That link gives me a 404 error (at 13-00 GMT, Jan 7)

Try this

http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/creative-suite-2-activation-end-life.html

[kirk97132]

link for downloads
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=cs2_downloads

[andy_landy]

very cool, props to Adobe... this is a nice upgrade over my old version of audition

[Marshall7]

Looks like too many people are trying to grab stuff.

[stevetoney]

FWIW, I used v3.0 for awhile and went back to v1.5 because 3.0 seemed like a RAM hog and bogged my older machine down quite a bit (1.5ghz single core processor, 1.5gb of RAM).  Functionally, there were a few things that were nicer on v3.0, but I didn't perceive the essential functions of the two versions to have much difference...although I could be wrong about that since I'm not a power user.

[Fried Chicken Boy]

Apparently, Adobe is NOT giving away copies of CS2 and they've caught their mistake.  Somebody's gonna get fired over this. > http://forums.adobe.com/message/4974662

[Ozpeter]

They did give it away - and the terms of the accompanying licence allows installation without payment.  How they can now un-give it I don't know.  There are a lot of copies out there now and you can still download from direct links.

[rastasean]

So now they probably won't kill the activation server and make any new activation in the last 48 hours invalid. Whatever they do will be in favor of adobe.

[flipp]

According to the Adobe page from the original link: Effective December 13, 2012, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7. If you install Acrobat 7 or a CS2 application, the activation fails and returns the error, "Activation Server Unavailable."

Whatever Adobe finally decides to do, it'll be bloated. 

[Ozpeter]

Adobe rep on their forums -

"It appears the download server is now available. Our apologies for the inconvenience the outage of the download page may have caused."

Looks like they've decided to pretend that the whole thing never happened, and leave the cat out of the bag.