# AAX plugins are silently broken **URL:** \ **Category:** General JUCE discussion\ **Created:** [June 22, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/aax-plugins-are-silently-broken/56770 "2023-06-22T21:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RolandMR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/rolandmr/32/641_2.png) [@RolandMR](https://forum.juce.com/u/RolandMR)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/aax-plugins-are-silently-broken/56770/1 "2023-06-22T21:01:53Z")
In the latest juce breaking changes: ```auto Change ------ AudioProcessor::getAAXPluginIDForMainBusConfig() has been deprecated. Possible Issues --------------- Any AudioProcessor overriding this method will fail to compile. ``` `getAAXPluginIDForMainBusConfig` has been made private. However, that doesn’t cause plugins to not compile. **A private virtual function can be overridden by derived classes** , but can only be called from within the base class. Instead the return type should be changed, since a virtual function can not differ by return type only. ---
**Author:** ![ttg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/ttg/32/14456_2.png) [@ttg](https://forum.juce.com/u/ttg)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 6:37am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/aax-plugins-are-silently-broken/56770/2 "2023-06-27T06:37:14Z")
I did notice this commit on the develop branch so I was aware of it. But thinking of it more, A nicer thing would be to deprecate it first or at least resulting a compile error. ---
**Author:** ![yfede](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/yfede/32/506_2.png) [@yfede](https://forum.juce.com/u/yfede)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/aax-plugins-are-silently-broken/56770/3 "2023-06-27T07:46:26Z")
Not causing a compilation error may have been acceptable if that function, overridden in the derived classes, were still called for backwards compatibility. Maybe that was the intention of the JUCE team? But I can confirm that with the new implementation that function is never called, silently resulting in the plug-ins to revert to the default identifiers. ---
**Author:** ![anthony-nicholls](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/anthony-nicholls/32/1246_2.png) [@anthony-nicholls](https://forum.juce.com/u/anthony-nicholls)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/aax-plugins-are-silently-broken/56770/4 "2023-06-27T10:03:19Z")
Good catch @RolandMR I think this ones on me, I think I wanted a compilation error to force the change. Clearly didn’t test that though! I’ll take a look now. ---
**Author:** ![anthony-nicholls](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/anthony-nicholls/32/1246_2.png) [@anthony-nicholls](https://forum.juce.com/u/anthony-nicholls)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/aax-plugins-are-silently-broken/56770/5 "2023-06-28T14:02:31Z")
I’ve pushed a change - I’ve settled for just removing the function entirely unfortunately I couldn’t get a much more helpful error message so I think people will have to just rely on the breaking changes document for this one. > ---
**Author:** ![EikeJ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/eikej/32/17931_2.png) [@EikeJ](https://forum.juce.com/u/EikeJ)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/aax-plugins-are-silently-broken/56770/6 "2024-02-20T14:56:17Z")
So, dumb question: how can I now set my id’s (which I need to do for backwards compatibility)? Also, was there a reason to hide/remove this call, other the ID not being enforced to be unique (which is not necessarily a problem)? ---
**Author:** ![anthony-nicholls](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/anthony-nicholls/32/1246_2.png) [@anthony-nicholls](https://forum.juce.com/u/anthony-nicholls)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/aax-plugins-are-silently-broken/56770/7 "2024-02-20T15:03:31Z")
@EikeJ if you take a look at the [breaking changes document](https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE/blob/master/BREAKING_CHANGES.md#change-16) it says… > **Workaround** > > - Create an object which inherits from AAXClientExtensions. > - In the object override and implement getPluginIDForMainBusConfig(). > - In the AudioProcessor override getAAXClientExtensions() and return a pointer to the object. ---
**Author:** ![EikeJ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/eikej/32/17931_2.png) [@EikeJ](https://forum.juce.com/u/EikeJ)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/aax-plugins-are-silently-broken/56770/8 "2024-02-20T15:48:41Z")
Thx! This gives the rationale as well.