


From a financial standpoint, imagine all the Microsoft Licensing fees you will save as well as customer service issues JUST TRYING TO INSTALL YOUR PRODUCT IN THE FIRST PLACE! There are plenty of open-source options available out there. The second solution would be the best but requires another version: don't use MSDE as your database for Media Manager. If someone really wants to use this feature, they should be able to install it separately and endure the cost of performance that is plagued with addition. Search the forum some more and you will find more problems just trying to get MSDE to install on a lot of computers let alone just the ACID software. There is a easy solution to this problem: do not include Media Manager and SQL Server in the base install. Then try going back into it and messing around with ACID. Exit out of ACID and go into task manager and kill the sqlserver.exe process. Don't believe me? Go into the options screen and find the disable the option to "Enable Media Manager" (or something to that context). this thing activates different services on startup, takes a big chunk of memory while running. MSDE is by no means some little add-on that ACID uses. Now I can imagine that it was a chore to manage all these sound/data files, but Sony's solution to add MSDE (the desktop version of MS SQL Server) was not only unnecessary, but also problematic in many more areas.

Metadata possibly meaning, length of the loops, which octave it is default, peak levels, author information, etc etc.

Now from what I understand about the Media Manager is that it is a database of all the metadata of all your sounds, loops, etc that you use in ACID. It seemed that with the installation of ACID 5.0 came a little surprise in the form of a new feature: Media Manager. After seeing my friend's new setup of ACID 5.0 I was amazed.
