Microsoft Woes
Oct. 14th, 2005 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stickmakerI am about ready to go to Seattle and kick MS' managers in their corporate assets.
I wanted to take a music file to work on CD. I copied the file to CD, everything fine. But then I couldn't get the disk to eject. I tried pushing the button. I tried right-clicking on the drive in Windows Explorer and selecting Eject. I re-opened and re-closed every Application even remotely connected with the task. Nothing. I finally shut all applications and rebooted. Then the CD drive would open. By this time I'm already late for work.
On my work machine I check to make sure the file really is there. Yep. I try to play it. WinMP doesn't recognize the file format (M4P). Microsoft's online help can't find anything on the file format; never heard of it, sorry.
So not only does Windows make me late getting back from lunch, when I finally do get to work I have this piece of music which is perfectly playable, but Windows refuses to even admit it exists.
Guess I'll have to wait until I get back home this afternoon and try to convert it. (I'm not allowed to install software on my work machine.)
Stickmaker
I wanted to take a music file to work on CD. I copied the file to CD, everything fine. But then I couldn't get the disk to eject. I tried pushing the button. I tried right-clicking on the drive in Windows Explorer and selecting Eject. I re-opened and re-closed every Application even remotely connected with the task. Nothing. I finally shut all applications and rebooted. Then the CD drive would open. By this time I'm already late for work.
On my work machine I check to make sure the file really is there. Yep. I try to play it. WinMP doesn't recognize the file format (M4P). Microsoft's online help can't find anything on the file format; never heard of it, sorry.
So not only does Windows make me late getting back from lunch, when I finally do get to work I have this piece of music which is perfectly playable, but Windows refuses to even admit it exists.
Guess I'll have to wait until I get back home this afternoon and try to convert it. (I'm not allowed to install software on my work machine.)
Stickmaker
Stupid Microsoft Tricks
Date: 2005-10-15 04:41 pm (UTC)I wasn't blaming the format problem on MS (well, not directly :-). It was just an added aggravation heightening (or lowering) my mood.
And, yeah, I figured out I should have burned a CD instead of copying a file, all on my own, after I discovered the problem.
Stickmaker
Re: Stupid Microsoft Tricks
Date: 2005-10-15 06:01 pm (UTC)The new MSN music store does the same thing, I've discovered, with a "protected" version of the Microsoft format .wma. I downloaded a few free songs off the MSN store, and I can't load those into iTunes. So this thing works both ways.