The Nightmare...over?

[hwango]

Because they are awesome people, lconover and cotter_salem spent another evening with me healing my sickly, plague-ridden paperweight. As a result of their efforts, I think that I can actually start calling it a "computer" again. Everything seems okay. I mean, it still sprays me with blood and chants in a demonic voice whenever it starts up, but I expected that from Windows X(tra)P(ervasive).

One of the simultaneously cool yet creepy things I've noticed so far is that Windows Media Player knows the name, artist, track titles, and genre of my CDs...well, just the one so far. I'm looking forward to seeing which ones it recognizes. How long has that information been stored on CDs, anyway?

I can tell it's going to take me a while to adjust completely to XP, but I'm getting there.

Comments

Spraying blood

[unferth.livejournal.com]

Oh, you must have gotten the Evil Microsoft version.

(Note: the above link involves a Flash video with sound and is somewhat profane. Follow or not at your discretion.)

[krzzl.livejournal.com]

I think media player is automatically hooked up to CDDB somehow. There's a way to put in a blank file somewhere on your PC to keep it from doing that. I forget how, but if you do a google search you can probably find it.

[lconover.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear things are mostly working now...

Although, I still hear the haunting echo of your PC telling us happily that it has found yet another graphics tablet... "Bing! Ooooo! Another one! Now I have 15 of them!"

[octophobic.livejournal.com]

I think it is the CDDB data. You should try putting in a new CD when the computer isn't online. If it doesn't autoload the data then it's getting it online. It would be nice if it had some of that data stored but that would be a lot of data. It should remember previous discs though.

Anyway most CDs have unique keys on them that identify them to CDDB and others. They're not truly unique though because at least twice I've had the program respond with a choice between two wildly different music choices.