The flugelhorn was the first library that I used the download manager with and I was disappointed to notice that the download manager checks the dongle for license before installing. I can't figure how it would make anything safer for VSL but it makes things more difficult for the legitimate users. My slave that runs Vienna Instruments doesn't have a keyboard and I like to download everything to a single folder on the DAW for easy backup. Because I have to use the download manager to extract the downloaded files and it asks for the dongle I have to move the dongle with the right license from the slave to the DAW for installing and then back to the slave for using.
I also can't understand why the flugelhorn doesn't have an installer. It seems that the download manager can only install software that it has downloaded, it doesn't seem to be able to open files downloaded with another computer. Do I have to download the samples again with the download manager to be able to install them to a new system? What if all my software required me to do that? I just did a full backup of my samples and that's 1.2 teras at the moment. Or can I just compress the files the download manager extracted and save those for further installs? Doesn't that make having the copy protection procedures in the download manager completely pointless?
Also the download manager itself is questionable even if it can be downloaded on any necessary system and even if the downloading worked very well. I'm not too happy with the scenario where I have to keep installing and using separate download managers for all the dozens of manufacturers I have bought software from instead of just browsing to their websites and getting what I need.
I really hope that you can keep using the good old-fashioned way of having an installer that can be run without a dongle or any external software and easily copied from system to system. We already have to use a dongle to use the software, that should be enough.
