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[which_chick]

Fucking Musicmatch Jukebox. I paid good money for you, once upon a time, and I have kept ONE iteration of you installed (the same one, as it happens) on the same computer I initially installed you upon. I do not expect you to now rip one track off of a commercial CD and then shit yourself in a great huge crash of crashy-mc-tastic goodness. That is not the sort of behavior I expect from software I actually fucking paid for OR from commercial music CDs that I actually fucking paid for. I'm trying to do this up right and proper, you know. I could just download shit off the internet and have it as .mp3 files for free. I could do that. But no. I BOUGHT software (Yeah. Paid fucking money for it, like a responsible adult.) to rip COMMERCIAL AUDIO CDS (which I also pay fucking money for) into .mp3 files like a responsible fucking (Celibate, so not much fucking going on. We're trying for a reality-based post, here.) adult consumer of audio media. You're letting down the team, here, you unholy piece of shit.

Okay, peeps. (Forgive me for calling you peeps. None of you, I trust, are made of marshmallow and I certainly hope none of you come in pastel colors like pink, yellow, or purple. If you do, please DO NOT tell me about it. [Yes, go on. Read it again. Like an eighth-grader. Yep, that's the level of humor I'm going for. It's before coffee and I did, indeed, mean come in pastel colors in an ejaculatory sort of way. We could all pretend that I'm more mature than that, but we'd be lying to ourselves.]) I need a suggestion for software that will take music off real CDs and autolable track lists and generate mp3s for me like Musicmatch Jukebox USED TO DO before it fucking broke on me. And I'm pissed and not currently willing to pay money for the privelege, so mad propz for free, though I'm feeling a little YARRR and could probably be up for w4r3z at this point if need be. Commercial fucking software (not mentioning any names, here) comes with no more support than a training bra, anyway.

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[sara-merry99.livejournal.com]

Even before I got my iPod, I found iTunes to be an excellent music player/manager on my computer.

Find it here (http://www.apple.com/itunes/).

It is free. It also gives you access to the iTunes music store, which has heaps and heaps of music-by-the-track for legitimate purchase--but if you use an MP3 player other than an iPod, those songs *won't* play on it. Just a heads up.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I have solved this problem with other software I already had on the machine... and deleted MMJB for the whore that it is. There's thirty bucks I won't see again. *sigh* Try to be a grownup about it, and what do I get? Software that does not work on the computer I bought it for, installed it on, and have maintained in a virus-free and crash-free condition using the same exact hardware from the time I bought and installed the software. This sux0r.

Interestingly, the disk and drive ripped quite happily (instantly, crash-free, with happy internetly cddb lookup) with CDex, my new best friend that also starts up in like two seconds instead of thirty. I'm not in love with the naming scheme, but I can deal. This did not cost me thirty dollars.

Many people seem quite happy with iTunes and iPods and so forth and I'm glad that it's working out so well for so many. However, while I have no real objection to paying for my music, I do have views on DRM and do not choose to support the iPeople for that reason.

[brni.livejournal.com]

that iTunes thing shows up by default on my mac, and i've been using it happily for some time. i don't own an ipod, and i haven't bought any online music (as i am an old-fashioned fart and like to have something i can hold in my hands for my money - having experienced disk crashes, i am a firm believer in physical media), so i can't comment on the rest of that stuff.

the thing i do like about iTunes is that it happily ignores all the copy-protected disk crappe that the Industry has been putting out to rootkit people's peecees and damage their speakers, lets me rip said copy protected disks in either mp3 or lossless formats so's i can play them on my computer, and lets me burn them to disk as an audio CD that i can then use in my car w/o damaging my speakers, etc.

i heard yesterday that sony has put out a non-DRMed version of a new jessica simpson song as a sort of feeler to see what happens to sales when you don't copy protect. hopefully this marks the beginning of the end for DRM.

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

iTunes refused to make decent mp3s of a recent Sahara Hotnights (http://www.saharahotnights.com/) album I bought that was copy-protected somehow. The disk defaults to windows media player, which doesn't do me much good, as my ipod won't play WMP-created files. So now I just listen to it in my car. I don't reckon that story makes much of a difference to those who aren't up on their Swedish chick-punk, though. And SH's previous albums are non-copy-protected, so it's all good.

[brni.livejournal.com]

dunno if you have a mac or a peecee. if it's a mac, try ripping to aiff format. from there you should be able to burn a new audio disk that isn't copy protected. not sure if it works on peecees (i have 1 pc in the house, as the designated realmedia machine, but it does double as the dialup-support-for-dad machine), but on peecees, i'd say try importing in wav format and converting from there.

thanks for the link to sahara hotnights - it's like 1981, all over again. :)