I'm a programmer/sysadmin, and will try to offer a couple suggestions off list regarding your predicament, but I heartily recommend that in the future, just say no to DRM-based music purchase sites. If you feel the itch to buy your music online, you may want to try eMusic for a bit. No, they don't have a completely "mainstream" catalog and it is subscription-based. However, I find their library refreshing and far more interesting. Also, the downloads are unencumbered (MP3s ripped with LAME's alt-standard encoding), which runs rings around iTunes and most every other online music store regarding digital quality FWIW, and the price is reasonable. Another option is Magantune, where you pay what you think you want to; the catalog is sparse and eclectic, but I like that. You can also give your money to the Russian online music company allofmp3.com and get lossless (FLAC, and well, actually, just about any encoding such as OGG, MP3, whatcha want?) files, but there's a chance they will go away soon due to legislative pressure. Also, the RIAA wants me to believe that I am funding the mob/terrorists/forces of evil, because the RIAA isn't a mob and has my best interests at heart. Bless their benevolent souls.
On Dec 3, 2006, at 11:25 AM, cbwaters wrote: > Several weeks ago, for no apparent reason, all the little HTML > pictures in > my email quit showing up in Outlook Express. > I KNOW, HTML and photos are bad juju but lets set that aside for now. > It didn't really bother me. > Except when it did. > I figured something was aims in Internet Explorer and it'd get > fixed...or > not. I don't use IE so no real harm. > > Fast forward a few weeks and I found a new CPU that would work in > my PC for > only a few dollars and I made the swap from a P41.7-400MHz fsb to > a P4 > 3.0 -8ooMHz chip with Hyper Threading. > > Bonus: My RAM I purchased several weeks ago seems to be working > now and it > didn't like running at 400 MHz AT ALL. > > Bummer: None of the downloaded music I have in Media Player works > anymore. > The licenses are no good, I need to re-authorize this computer. > > I purchased several albums worth of tracks from MSN Music store and > now they > won't play because of the damned DRM BS. > > To fix this, I need to get I.E. to work. amazingly, MSN's web > tools for > re-authorizing computers don't work with Firefox. > > Uninstalled-re-installed IE6 several times. It seemed to work > once, but not > for long. > Tried uninstalling IE6 and installing IE7 but it's not working > either.It > opens and hangs at "connecting". I think it's not shaking hands > with my DSL > modem for whatever reason. > > Anybody care to take a stab at this OFF LIST? > > Guess I'll be buying my music from Amazon now :( > > Cory > the afflicted. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
