I really didn't do any research when I requested an iPod for my Christmas present from my folks. I just knew that I had been downloading songs from any and all sources for years, and I wanted a place to put these songs besides my hard drive. Now, I once had about 200 songs on my hard drive thanks to Napster and Kazaa and a few other file-swapping sites, but my computer completely crashed a couple of summers ago and I had to get rid of all that. At the moment I only have eight songs in my collection from Limewire, but I thought once I plugged my iPod into my computer that I could place those songs right in there. Then, in the future, I could download a song, put it in my iPod, and delete the song so as not to wear out my computer again. iPod had a different idea. On my computer screen, the iPod front page separates my Limewire files, allows me to play them on my computer like before, but refuses to send them to my iPod because they "cannot swap unregistered files," or something like that. I assumed that the Limewire files are on my hard drive, therefore they should swap over no problem. I assumed wrong. So the only things that transferred to my iPod are a file someone sent me seven years ago that has some white guy doing an Ebonics-style commercial for Delta ("We loves us some flyin'...and it be showin' like a motherfucker!") and all of my dirty pics, which I probably will delete because I have no reason to take those out in public unless I'm looking to get arrested. Unless someone with some computer savvy informs me of another way, I may have to succumb to the iTunes store and pay 99 cents per download for my songs, whether those songs are the versions I'm looking for or not. Otherwise, my Christmas present would be expensive and totally useless, and that reminds me too much of my ex-girlfriends.
(Update at 1:24P--Eureka! I seemed to have burned all of my songs from Limewire to my iPod. Everyone at once: Awwwww, shit!!)
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It's a scam. I'd send you to Walmart.com where you can buy them for 88 cents per song but their file formats are not compatible with iPods. See what I mean about the scam?
I didn't know that about the lack of compatibility of some songs w/iPod. Maybe I should get a generic MP3 player.
Oh well, hope you had a Merry Christmas bro' - always nice to find another IBM on the Internet; I'm increasingly convinced there are more of us out there than folks wanna let on - and I hope 2007 brings you everything you want and more.
For me? If I can publish one of my books and surprise my wife with an unexpected gift or two I'll be good.
Thank you for the support. And if the other IBMs have had to deal with the same social challenges that I've encountered from folks who don't seem to know how to deal with an IBM, then it's going to take a lot of coaxing to get them to open up. I just hope they haven't had to go through the psychotic shit that I have.
Happy New Year, Dre!
And I wish you all the luck I wish the other IBMs (including me): that more knuckleheads in '07 will recognize who we are and not make the mistake of sleepin' on us.
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