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masterhiggins wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 6:58 pm Nice! I like how Plogue does that, too. I mean, I didn't even think about the usefulness or plausibility of it. I literally just thought it was neat.
Yeah, I also own Plogue's plugins, so I was already familiar with the licence card activation method prior to this being rolled out by u-he. Works pretty well. Perhaps, it will catch on.

Although, I believe u-he have taken the general concept and improved upon it, since u-he have managed to simplify the process further by consolidating all the customer's purchased licences on to just one licence card.

I feel that is more efficient than Plogue's current method, of issuing separate licence cards for each owned plugin. Albeit, both implementations are pretty simple and unintrusive for the end-user.

I note that some users may have expressed some reservations about their full name and email address being displayed on their u-he Licence card. I'm assuming those people don't own any Plogue software, since Plogue's equivalent displays not only those personal details, but also the customer's home location, country and even their telephone number (at least it does for my Activation Key cards) :lol:

But I'm not too bothered about it, since hopefully, I'm the only one who can see it. 👀

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I like it. It worked perfectly well.
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Yeah, I think Plogue might view their cards as some kind of "collectible items", whereas for us it is purely a means to an end.

The reason we put some limited personal information on it serves several purposes. Sure, for one thing we want to discourage people from sharing them. It's a copy protection thing after all, but one that we think is least intrusive. Next up, not sure if I mentioned this, a quick search in our support database unveiled at least 2000 support incidences in 2 years that are related to exactly the information displayed on the card. People forget their user names, their email addresses, their licenses and the date they purchased things. We hope that the cards will reduce these incidences greatly.

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I also own one of Plogue’s plugins and while I do like the general idea of license cards, I’ve always had one recurring issue with it: every now and then when I open the plugin, it asks for the license again. So I end up re-activating it repeatedly, which gets annoying pretty fast.

But u-he usually get these things right, so I’m pretty confident their implementation will avoid the kind of activation loop I’ve been dealing with on the Plogue side.
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enCiphered wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 9:36 am I also own one of Plogue’s plugins and while I do like the general idea of license cards, I’ve always had one recurring issue with it: every now and then when I open the plugin, it asks for the license again. So I end up re-activating it repeatedly, which gets annoying pretty fast.

But u-he usually get these things right, so I’m pretty confident their implementation will avoid the kind of activation loop I’ve been dealing with on the Plogue side.
I would not know why that - frequently asking to reauthorise - would happen with us... does the operating system sometimes purge image files without asking?

Anyhow, I would expect License Cards to be as permanent as our prior system using serials. Sometimes people had to reauthorise when migrating systems, but generally those files did not simply disappear for no good reason.

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Urs wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 9:46 am I would not know why that - frequently asking to reauthorise - would happen with us... does the operating system sometimes purge image files without asking?

Anyhow, I would expect License Cards to be as permanent as our prior system using serials. Sometimes people had to reauthorise when migrating systems, but generally those files did not simply disappear for no good reason.
I don’t think so, Urs. The file has never disappeared on my system. It is exactly where I placed it, so the OS purging it doesn’t seem to be the cause. OPS7 just occasionally forgets that it’s already been authorised and asks again. No pattern I could identify.
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Ok... it won't happen with us... I'm confident 8)

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"Looks like the license card isn't sticking for me. Says registration successful then I see my name on zebra. If I remove zebra and load it back, it reverts to beta tester."


Solved: Both cards were in the folder, removing the beta one fixed it. Just saying in case, somebody wants to know.

On Windows, you can find the license cards here:

C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\u-he

On Mac, they are stored in the user library:

~/Library/Application Support/u-he
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just purchased the zebra 3 preorder and received the license card

1. should I be using the beta license card you provided in the root post that everyone's able to download, or should I be using the unique one for my purchase to help with testing out that functionality?

2. are there auto-updates in zebra 3 for the beta, or should we keep an eye out on the forums for newer versions to test newer builds

thx for the preorder discounts

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anonuser579374 wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 2:02 pm just purchased the zebra 3 preorder and received the license card
Please use the license card you received after purchasing the license.
There is no auto-update feature, just keep an eye out on the forums.
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paradiddle wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 1:04 pm Solved: Both cards were in the folder, removing the beta one fixed it. Just saying in case, somebody wants to know.
Yep, right now the beta license will trump the purchased license if both are installed.
Luckily, one can simply delete the beta card to fix this.
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tasmaniandevil wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 2:15 pm
paradiddle wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 1:04 pm Solved: Both cards were in the folder, removing the beta one fixed it. Just saying in case, somebody wants to know.
Yep, right now the beta license will trump the purchased license if both are installed.
Luckily, one can simply delete the beta card to fix this.
Yep, because that license is usually newer... I guess I should have made backdated it to 1902 or so...

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I really like the concept
and I really hope other devs stop this online installers orgy.

I can see other U-he licenses on the card,
is it just meant to be in prearrangement or is it working already?

And if we print & carry around the neck means VIP booth access? :)
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Thanks Tas and Urs. This is so easier than having to enter a shitload of licenses all over the place.
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