I thought I had fixed the MP3! I started PC thinking I am a genius who fixed the issue myself, but nope, magix once again slapped me and as soon as I clicked on an MP3, Acid took a dump with that dreadful crash "acid pro has stopped working". My rut of re-installing Acid daily was stopped last week when I manipulated win defender to fix this issue but it came back. Rendering is still the major problem but I learned to work around it.

Man this sucks!! Whats up magix? Stop with the features and fix acid7 for once. Just focus on fixing that first. Don't come back with dark GUI and just changing from 32 to 64 and call it the next "more focused" DAW. Acid pro is the best DAW there is but needs "Fixing". I think there is only a handful of us who are full time acidpro users who come here for help and hopes. But the rest of the world probably just stop using it after the first crash and move on to what works. I would be more frustrated if magix came back with another upgrade for another $99. I would still pay them but at least come back with a stable release! Well tested. Let me test it before you ask people for their hard-earned cash for a lemon!

UPDATE: Windows Defender also lost the exception for Acidpro10. Turned off win defender entirely, mp3 codec is still dead. Re-installed ap10 once more so I can finish a project full of MP3 files that I get from clients. I am starting to wonder if Magix is going down the same route as Sony. Squeezing out a few upgrades, cash in as much as they can and dropping AP eventually as clearly, with each update/upgrade, its starting to get worse.