Licensing - how can I update it for ALL users?

[Someone7272]

Hi Spoon,

I have decided to renew for another two year term. Which is great, so I put the new license ID into the the dBpoweramp Control Center as directed by your instructions.

But when another user logs on, they are still showing the license expired message. So that means the license info is stored at user level, rather than computer level. Is it possible to automatically update the license for all users on the PC?

Otherwise, could I use a Group Policy registry, files policy or any other kind of script to push it to all users individually?

If not, please can I suggest the ability to store license info in the ALL USERS profile (HKLM registry or ProgramData) so that I don't have to do it per-user?

Thanks,
Dan

[Spoon]

It is stored per user, so have to type the license for each user which logs on.

[Someone7272]

It is stored per user, so have to type the license for each user which logs on.

I tried changing it from the admin account which I assumed would apply to all users, but it didn't.
This is weird, because when I originally installed it back in 2022, the license applied to all users.
But unfortunately, users in the family experiencing metadata retrieval failures, probably due to the old expired license.

As we can use multiple computers...

5 computers x 5 users would mean 25 manual license code updates.

No thanks, I'd really like to automate this if possible. So I found several registry keys associated with licensing:

SYSTEM

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\
STRING: RegCode | VALUE: (my OLD license code)

CURRENT_USER

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\
STRING: RegCode | VALUE: (my OLD license code)

As you've mentioned that it's "for each user", then I'm guessing the one in HKEY_CURRENT_USER takes precedance.
So a simple "run at startup" script to update this with the new license, that should fix it?

[Spoon]

Yes

[Someone7272]

Yes

Thanks, that's done it.

Suprisingly still experiencing metadata failures on these accounts.
Well I've since found they aren't failing outright, but taking over 10 minutes to get anything back, even after applying the new license.
Probably one for a new topic, so I'll do some more digging and start a new one if I'm still stuck.