OK. Now I REALLY feel sick.
Jun. 18th, 2003 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I had a brilliant idea. I thought, while dave's hard at work, I'll organize my mp3 files. I have a lot of them. They're all over. Many, I haven't even listened to. I should go through them.
Hmm, I thought. I should get myself some better mp3-listening software. What's out there? Winamp is buggy and crashes a lot. Hmm...
So I thought, OK, I can't get iTunes, but there are iPods for Windows. What do they use?
MusicMatch. Hmm...
So I dialed them up, and downloaded the free version. Hm. Can't hurt. It's kinda ugly, wants a lot of personal info, but I skipped most of those things and got it fired up. Restarted, and there it was.
OK. Pretty ugly, counterintuitive, hard to use, kept clicking on random things that ended up bringing me to their website to buy the Pro version for $20. No thanks, I'm trying to see if the free version works.
So I'm adding files. Not so bad. Here we go. Can't resize the window so I can't tell which of my 80 Tom Lehrer songs I'm adding. (I forgot I had all these. Pretty cool. Wow. I have a lot of good music. Yeah.) Well, that's OK. I'll look at them later. Just getting something in there for now.
It hangs while adding a particular mp3. Hangs hard. No ctrl+alt+del. Nothing works. Crap.
Cold boot. I hold the power key down for a while. It reboots.
I try again. Stuff. Yay. It's all started up. There it is. I continue.
It hangs again. Whoops. Dammit.
This time I wait and after I hit ctrl+alt+del a bunch of times, I manage to just quit the program.
So, I tried it again.
Things seemed to be going well when abruptly my computer restarted. I mean, i hadn't hit anything in particular, and it just went 'click' and was restarting.
...
It can't find me. My user profile doesn't exist.
Let me clarify. No files are missing, but when I start up Windows, it says that my user profile could not be found, and it starts me up with the blue Windows background, and pops up the Welcome to Windows thing, and the little click me thing starts going on the Start bar...
Nothing's there. It doesn't recognize me.
HOW FUCKING ANNOYING IS THAT????
So, don't, under ANY circumstances, EVER download MusicMatch. I don't even know HOW it did that, but I've never had anything like this happen before. For fuck's sake.
Hmm, I thought. I should get myself some better mp3-listening software. What's out there? Winamp is buggy and crashes a lot. Hmm...
So I thought, OK, I can't get iTunes, but there are iPods for Windows. What do they use?
MusicMatch. Hmm...
So I dialed them up, and downloaded the free version. Hm. Can't hurt. It's kinda ugly, wants a lot of personal info, but I skipped most of those things and got it fired up. Restarted, and there it was.
OK. Pretty ugly, counterintuitive, hard to use, kept clicking on random things that ended up bringing me to their website to buy the Pro version for $20. No thanks, I'm trying to see if the free version works.
So I'm adding files. Not so bad. Here we go. Can't resize the window so I can't tell which of my 80 Tom Lehrer songs I'm adding. (I forgot I had all these. Pretty cool. Wow. I have a lot of good music. Yeah.) Well, that's OK. I'll look at them later. Just getting something in there for now.
It hangs while adding a particular mp3. Hangs hard. No ctrl+alt+del. Nothing works. Crap.
Cold boot. I hold the power key down for a while. It reboots.
I try again. Stuff. Yay. It's all started up. There it is. I continue.
It hangs again. Whoops. Dammit.
This time I wait and after I hit ctrl+alt+del a bunch of times, I manage to just quit the program.
So, I tried it again.
Things seemed to be going well when abruptly my computer restarted. I mean, i hadn't hit anything in particular, and it just went 'click' and was restarting.
...
It can't find me. My user profile doesn't exist.
Let me clarify. No files are missing, but when I start up Windows, it says that my user profile could not be found, and it starts me up with the blue Windows background, and pops up the Welcome to Windows thing, and the little click me thing starts going on the Start bar...
Nothing's there. It doesn't recognize me.
HOW FUCKING ANNOYING IS THAT????
So, don't, under ANY circumstances, EVER download MusicMatch. I don't even know HOW it did that, but I've never had anything like this happen before. For fuck's sake.
