Technology Topic

Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
If that's the case, that would be good Gerard . I can't try the theory, i.e. play it on iTunes, 'cause we deleted it once my bro got his laptop (and he's the only one who has an iPod, see) but it seems likely

Originally posted by germcevoy[..]well seeing as it's easier for you to download itunes than for me to re-encode and re-upload, give it a whirl.

Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
Don't worry about it mate, it's not too much of an issue, I mean I often select music via. the My Music folder method, but should I ever get around to that, I'll let you know

Originally posted by JeremyHey Nick....I'm not Mr. Technology (like Drew), but I'm 99.99% sure that you can use your own router. We have cable through Charter Communications here, and we have our own router and our own cable modem. They wanted us to rent one from them, but we just use our own and save a couple bucks a month.

Originally posted by NickHey guys! I need to ask you something. I want to have T-mobile's home phone service. However, I was wondering if I will need to purchase the router on the website, if I already own a router. I tried calling the customer service line, but I couldn't get a clear answer from anyone. So, I figured, why not try here? If you need to know, my desktop is running Windows Vista Home Basic, and my laptop is running XP. I'm not sure if its SP1, or SP2.

Originally posted by Harry...in relation to that though, the two folders with which I've had such issues have been Brussels '87 and Tel Aviv '97. Now, whenever I play the 2 bootlegs, for some reason the opening file (Streets and Mofo respectively) come up separately on different folders, yet the rest of the files from each 'album' all have the same info., i.e. folder name, comments, genre, year and artist apart from individual stuff such as track name, number etc.

I mean, if I go to My Music folder etc. and then select the whole bootleg to listen to, they all come up as one playlist but if I go to the media library on WMP, I'm missing the 1st track from each boot. Anyone got any ideas?

Originally posted by drewhigginsI think you can hold Ctrl and click each folder, then choose Play with Windows Media Player. That solved that exact same problem for me. WMP also has an issue where if it finds different metadata (album, artist, year etc) it won't play the lesser files with the different tags. Alternatively, select both folders and drag into the Media Library, and they should play.

Originally posted by drewhiggins



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The router should work with XP / Vista - we run a combination of XP Home SP1, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Basic. Regarding T-Mobile, their website seems hard to get around - no wonder you couldn't get a clear answer, if their site sucks.

Easiest way to tell on XP for installed service packs is click Start > Run > winver. Then it has 'Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp : Service Pack), so tell me what that says and I'll be able to help you. About wireless networks and routers, SP1 and SP2 both do wireless well because we're running a desktop, laptop and my own computer runs Vista Home Premium - so it all works well. For the XP systems, make sure you download and install a decent firewall - XP's one is terrible and you can hardly configure it.

Originally posted by drewhigginsDon't worry about how long it takes.

The firewall would more than likely turn off the XP firewall - you shouldn't have two firewalls running because of apparent conflict (I've yet to see evidence of this as I run two) but Webroot is more than good enough (better than XP's version).]

Actually, I have a question: Anyone with an iPod touch, how the hell do you get your songs transferred from it? Unfortunately you can't mount it as a removable disk drive or USB drive, so how do you go from there - and iTunes still doesn't let you drop and drag your own songs - so that's out of the question. On firmware 1.1.4 - modded.

Originally posted by U2Nick[..]

As for the iPod Touch, I have one, but don't know exactly what you mean by "transfering" songs from it......... do you mean syncing?

Originally posted by drewhiggins[..]

Like say you lose some songs from your computer, like you delete them on accident and the Bin serves no purpose, how would you copy them back?

Like iPod > PC?

Originally posted by U2Nick[..]

hmm....... I know what you mean, and I've done that before. Unfortunately, I have no clue how to do it. I think it only works with iTunes Store Purchases though. Anyway, I know that it works with those, but I've never been able to do it with anything else. Sorry, I'm not the best of help around here, but I'm sure that someone else will coma around