Can't activate plugins in standalone mode after purchasing!

Delphinus wrote:

TUBBZ wrote:MPC One Retro owner here having the same problem, connected to the net via a Cat5 cable and can open the activate plug-ins page, but when I hit activate for Air Flavour Pro & Mini D I just get “Could not validate license from the server” will try calling support tomorrow but it’s not a good look compared to how easy it is to do similar tasks on my Maschine+.

Is your MPC ONE/serial number linked to the account that you purchased the plug ins on?

If that's not the problem try changing your DNS settings on the MPC itself to 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1

I ran into the same problem a few months ago. Customer support was no help.

I just wanna chime in this topic because I had the same issue the other day.
I fell for the black friday fever and bought a Jura Chorus.
(slightly OT: activating plugins only with a ethernet cable - i'm in mpc one - is madness! so convoluted... good thing i still had an ethernet cable from the old days... but still... unplugging the mpc from my system, going near the router, connecting the ethernet.... painful).

went through the activation procedure but i too got the error message 'license status: 8'
so i went on the inMusic support chat (i see many complaints for AKAI support which I understand but i have to admit the chat works preatty well, they always respond with a human operator) - the operator told me to try to set UTC time zone, restart both mpc and router etc... (same ol' s***) - they also told me to reset my preferences which would have been a little painful as i changed a lot so since nothing was working i didn't do that.
After pouring a little of my frustration to the poor guiltless support operator (sorry Max) and letting him know that I think all this was so convoluted and wrong, we agreed on opening a ticket (aaaarrrggghhh) for assistance.
After a couple of day i still hadn't got no answer so I tried and reach support out again via chat. They told me they would reply via email before the day was over, and they actually did: after maybe 10-15 minutes I got an email from AKAI support and they told me what Delphinus wrote: to change DNS address to 8.8.8.8 (preferences > ethernet > set addres method to MANUAL > DNS).
They also sincerely apologized for the inconvenience which i guess i appreciated...
anyways, this method worked for me.

cheers!
Ty

I had this problem with Air Flavor Pro a few weeks ago during Black Friday. What worked for me was to keep trying to validate, after hitting it like 100 times it worked. I messaged Akai and told them how broken their verification system is. My experience was with an MPC One via ethernet.

just charlie wrote:What worked for me was to keep trying to validate, after hitting it like 100 times it worked.

Don't waste your time doing all that. Just try again later. There's I system delay when processing your the activation or whatever sometimes & you just gotta wait until it's up. Happen to me twice. But yeah, Akai needs to work on that.

Just bought an MPC Key 37, having the exact same issues, unbelievable that this is still a problem.

There is an SSH method that is supposed to work (deleting an activation related session file off the internal), but currently I can't get the SSH hack to work with the MPC key 37 as the img maker script doesn't add the validation info for it:

So I can confirm that deleting the 'SESSION' file from the internal disk does indeed immediately fix this issue. File is located here:

/media/az01-internal/softwareunlock/SESSION

You'll need a SSH enabled firmware installed to do this. I assume that eventually this session file will likely get recreated/rebuilt automatically, which is why some report the issue resolving after waiting a few hours.

Full details here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mpcusers/comme ... &context=3