ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist
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| Posted - May 26 2012 : 7:48PMThe last two albums I've bought have both had an incomplete track on them. The track would go about halfway through and skip to the next track. Even if you placed the time cursor towards the latter half of the song, it'd skip to the next. iTunes took care of it and let me redownload it the right track but it's a hassle. I found one track so far in an album that did that that I purchased last night. Never had this problem in 5+ years, but I think I'm gonna get stuff on Amazon exclusively now. Anyone had this problem? And PLEASE don't turn this into a digital purchase versus analog purchase thread. We all have our preferences for sure, but I'm talking about this specific issue. Thanks. [Link] |
ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist
5405 Posts 4/03
| Posted - May 27 2012 : 3:50AM
Two other people that I'm friends with in real life have said they have the same issue as well. Hmmmm.
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Gore Gore Girl  Doctor of the Erotic Arts
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| Posted - May 27 2012 : 4:25PM
You mean songs downloaded from itunes? Or stuff downloaded from anywhere that you play on itunes? I have been downloading books and podcasts, and they play no trouble. Never downloaded anything from itunes though. P.S. That problem sounds amazingly irritating. [Link] |
ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist
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| Posted - May 29 2012 : 4:28AM
It's downloading it from iTunes/Apple. I emailed them and politely asked them to fix this again like they did last week and they did. I nicely told them I was going to be buying from Amazon mainly now because while this problem is minor, it IS amazingly irritating. haha. they were apologetic but Apple is going down the shitter honestly. I've heard that from many, many people. I've been a huge Apple fanboy since 2007 when I switched to Macs, but they're focusing all on consumer-grade equipment and programs now and are leaving Final Cut Pro to rot to shit so a lot of filmmakers are pissed since the last version they released was horrible and watered down. Their last OS, Lion, is a joke. I installed it earlier this month and have had nothing but problems with it, which is a consensus with a lot of people. Over the last few years, you can clearly see a decline in the quality of their software and all and this just made me think about that. Blah blah, I'm just ranting.   [Link] |
ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist
5405 Posts 4/03
| Posted - May 29 2012 : 4:28AM
Where do you download stuff from, GGG? [Link] |
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Gore Gore Girl  Doctor of the Erotic Arts
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| Posted - May 30 2012 : 10:27AM
^ I may sink in your estimation, but I rarely download music. I actually pretty much only listen to music on the local AM radio station (old soul music, programmed and run by high school students! This may mean I am painfully hip, or painfully square...). Everything else I listen to is podcasts and books. The books come from audible, librivox, and once or twice silksounds. The podcasts come from This American Life, RISK!, The Morning After, and Elegant Angel, all of which I subscribe to through itunes. I haven't had any problems. In fact, it's been great. That's cool Apple were prompt in fixing the issue, but a shame they are losing their edge. I use my mac for so few things (writing...umm...storing photos and movies I guess and that's it. None of this fancy film making you're up to). [Link] |
ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist
5405 Posts 4/03
| Posted - Jun 6 2012 : 8:36PM
why would you sink in my estimation? hahaha. impossible! I'm not hip enough for podcasts so you've got me beat there. All the radio stations here SUCK and play country or 'rock', so I'll buy stuff off of iTunes and Amazon. I've even gotten CC stuff off of the Free Music Archive or Vimeo's Music Store (for filmmakers). it's all free so I'll download stuff that sounds good and see if I can use any in film projects. Plus, there's a lot of good stuff! Apple is tooootally losing their edge! I upgraded to their newest OS a month ago and I'm about to go back to the previous one (Snow Leopard), because it and my computer aren't getting along and they took away things that I actually NEED, like Quicktime 7 Pro, which I use to compile timelapses into video form. It's not the most stable OS either and a lot of people hate it. Boo.  You do fancy stuff too! I haven't been doing much film stuff lately, but I need to. Mainly working on my art photography projects and catching up on editing from previous shoots and getting stuff ready for prints so i can (hopefully) sell them and make a little cash to offset all the money I've invested in photography/filming equipment. What Mac do you have? $10 says it's better than mine. haha. [Link] |
Gore Gore Girl  Doctor of the Erotic Arts
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| Posted - Jun 7 2012 : 12:21PM
Haha. I have a MacBook Pro...that's about all the info I can provide. I suck at computers. All I need is something reliable enough to store seven years of writing and research on (don't worry, I have a gazillion multi-coloured jump drives and emailed copies as well), and that won't start lagging (I'm a fast typer). I love it. The only thing that really fucking pisses me off is that the snap n drag from dvds doesn't work, so I have to use Mr. GGG's older mac to get screen shots for my blog. How aggravating! Oh, funnily enough Mr. GGG updated his system and his mac is freezing up/running slow. Is that what you have experienced? Also stuff like highlighting a word to delete, and it just doesn't delete. Ugh. Irritating. I can empathize regarding the radio stations, but even though our states share the majority of these music problems, my particular location does have a niche that I happily indulge in and that I doubt Texas embraces. [Link] |