All this talk about MS and the problems point to only one solution. Get a Mac
and avoid a world of grief..


Just a thought, works for me.

I can sort of see the point of ripping stuff to MP3, but it sort of reminds me
of when people used to tape all their albums on to reels  at 3 3/4 for hours of
uninterrupted  music. Try and find a reel to reel that works these days... (I
mean a home one). To me it sounds only a little less useless than having a data
base of all your stuff.

We've got records and cds stacked up all over the house. When we want to listen
to music, we pull out a hand full of stuff and stick in on the turntable or cd
deck. I enjoy looking at the label or reading the notes when I play something.
It's part of the sensory experience. I've already given up the tactile thrill
of buying stuff more the most part, because I have to buy online more often
than not. It's probably why the idea of downloading MP3s or carrying around an
iPod with 10,000 songs just doesn't appeal to me.

Now to go round up enough stuff to do my radio show. I hope they've fixed
turntable #2, it made life difficult last time.

RS

Ray Brizzi wrote:

> "Just to be abundantly clear-- are you saying that even deinstalling the
> program won't help?  It sounds like you are."
>
> If you find a way to deinstall Windows Media Player, and back out its
> patches to the operating system, which already will stop some files from
> playing if copy protection is defeated, let me know. There sure isn't any
> way to do it in the add/remove programs feature. And Microsoft even tells
> you this when their updates come through.
>
> I'm sure that pretty soon, opening music files will call the operating
> system for signature checks as part of the file open function. Microsoft
> wants to be the copyright arbiter for all media and they're well on the way.
>
> Ray

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