#PSA: if you try to use Accessory A with Software B and the authors of Software B insist that what Accessory A is doing with their data is broken by design and will cause unsolvable failures, it is not useful to continue to harangue those authors to help you solve the failure that you are inflicting on yourself. Especially when the conflict between A and B has been well-documented in public as intractable for 15 years.