It was one of those days where the sun was shining, the birds were singing, the dogs were frolicking in the back yard and life was good. That was until I tried to carry 2 glasses of orange juice, our silverware and leberwurst into the family room as I was preparing breakfast. Suddenly the juice was in the air, and then on me and on the floor and my perfect day, which had started a mere hour before was shot.
Now I was philosophical enough to know that this wasn’t the end of the world. Into every life a little orange juice must fall, right? So I said, “Oh jeeze, look what I just did!” Then I set about mopping up the floor. No simple job when you’re mopping up orange juice due to the high sugar content. One must mop well or have sticky feet.
Okay. I finished with that and actually got to eat my breakfast and finish my coffee before I started the days work. Nothing dramatic, just some laundry and bed making, and since today I wasn’t stressed I thought I would take some recently purchased music and download that onto a CD. Well, guess what? Good old Itunes had changed their format again and I can’t convert the files. Now I don’t mind buying a song for 99¢, but I really hate buying the song and then not being able to use it on my own CD player! Back in the old days I would buy a 45 record for 45¢ and then I owned that record, unless of course my sister or brother “borrowed” it from me. Tell me, you more savvy computer musical wonders, how the heck can I unlock these tunes so I can play them on my car CD player? My car’s player does not do MP4. And I’ll be darned if I’m going to go out and buy an Ipod. It’s wrong to be forced to do that so I can listen to an old recording of the Monkees sing “Daydream Believer” in the privacy of my own car!
By my third hour on this problem, my blood pressure was up and I was ready to chew on nails!
What had happened to the bright and beautiful day?
I put the problem away. I sat down with a cup of tea and tried to relax. But it’s right there. Even now. Picking at my brain, torturing me, driving me insane. When will it end?
I sure hope I can sleep, and if I do, I pray I do not dream of Ipods dancing through my head!
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Bless your heart! I can never get things like that figured out. It takes me days and days to finally hit the jackpot.
Maybe Greta will know. hehe
Do I know exactly how you feel? YES, well about the downloading music part.
ARRRRGGGHHHHH
The solution? (Maybe) EMusic. (No, I don’t work for them, I’m just a huge fan.) Now, note, EMusic does NOT have all the things you’ll want, but if you like indie music (in this case “indie” is a type of distrubution, not a style) than you’ll be in heaven. Everything you get from EMusic is in mp3 format, which means you can rip it, burn it, share it, whatever. It’s yours. It’s a subscription plan that works out costing you about 2 cents per song. Every style is there, every type of music you’d ever want except those that come out on the major labels.
You get the first 25 songs for free, and the subscription is dirt cheap, so you really can’t lose (unless you love XTina or other pop whores, of course…)
/end EMusic plug.
Hmmm. I don’t know about the copyright on itunes, but it sounds like you need a software converter from MP3 to WAV, so you can play it in your car CD player.
I use a very primitive freeware program called, ‘MP3 Workshop’. But it isn’t perfect.
99 cents is steep for only MP3 format. Rhapsody, from Bestbuy, offers music to download in a format that will play in your CD player for the same price, although you have to pay a member fee on top.