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TheWatchman · 03-05-2004, 11:40 PM

Computers suck. After a real pain in the neck trying to get my cable modem to work with my laptop, because my desktop has Windows 98 and can't download iTunes, it finally worked but now I'm in a real tight spot.

I paid for and downloaded all 3 songs. Great! Took all of 5 seconds for the download. So now I figure I will burn them to a CD because my laptop is one of those new compact super duper slim jobbies with a supercalifragilelistic crappy speaker and sounds like hell. New songs sound good, but not getting the full effect with this little speaker. I install my drivers for my CD burner only to find out it's old and won't work with Windows XP Pro. Thanks Bill Gates. You've screwed me again. By the way, thanks for all the bum directions with your Microsoft Streets and Trips. It's really fun to turn south when I need to go north 39 miles!!

Now I get the idea I will log onto my email and send them to myself, hook the cable line back up to my desktop (re-booting each time to boot) and get the files that way so I can burn them. Only two sent and the 3rd got rejected because they took up all my space. In the meantime, while sending them from my laptop, I opened up my music converter on the laptop because I noticed these are M4P files! My music converter won't open that kind of file because it doesn't have a clue what the heck it is.

Back to my desktop, I open up my emails only to find out that I have no player capable of playing an M4P file. I tried to download a "fix" for this and none is available. So, I am stuck listening to this on my very tiny single speaker on my laptop.

What an ordeal. I'm waiting till May.

I thought I read somewhere where somebody found away around this M4P crap. Couldn't find it though.

03-05-2004, 11:40 PM	#69
TheWatchman Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Columbia, Maryland Posts: 930	Computers suck. After a real pain in the neck trying to get my cable modem to work with my laptop, because my desktop has Windows 98 and can't download iTunes, it finally worked but now I'm in a real tight spot. I paid for and downloaded all 3 songs. Great! Took all of 5 seconds for the download. So now I figure I will burn them to a CD because my laptop is one of those new compact super duper slim jobbies with a supercalifragilelistic crappy speaker and sounds like hell. New songs sound good, but not getting the full effect with this little speaker. I install my drivers for my CD burner only to find out it's old and won't work with Windows XP Pro. Thanks Bill Gates. You've screwed me again. By the way, thanks for all the bum directions with your Microsoft Streets and Trips. It's really fun to turn south when I need to go north 39 miles!! Now I get the idea I will log onto my email and send them to myself, hook the cable line back up to my desktop (re-booting each time to boot) and get the files that way so I can burn them. Only two sent and the 3rd got rejected because they took up all my space. In the meantime, while sending them from my laptop, I opened up my music converter on the laptop because I noticed these are M4P files! My music converter won't open that kind of file because it doesn't have a clue what the heck it is. Back to my desktop, I open up my emails only to find out that I have no player capable of playing an M4P file. I tried to download a "fix" for this and none is available. So, I am stuck listening to this on my very tiny single speaker on my laptop. What an ordeal. I'm waiting till May. I thought I read somewhere where somebody found away around this M4P crap. Couldn't find it though.