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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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[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. :)