Supremely cool but slightly complicated birthday present

[charliesmum]

Well, not complicated so much frustrating.

My friends (the mommies of Charlie's best friend) got me an MP3 player for my birthday! It is a Memorex MMP3642 and it is made of awesomeness, but the problem is my home computer is made of suckiness and won't download the software because it needs upgrades, or something.

I'm trying right now to download some windows updates that the thing is saying it needs, but it is taking foever and ever and ever, and it is rather frustrating.

And what's the deal with downloading music? Still illegal is it? To do it for free, I mean.

At any rate, it is a really super cool present, and I'm very excited, and hopefully I'll get the software to work and then I will have lots of songs to listen to on this little tiny thing.

And Dave and Busters was fun, and Charlie played this one game that was kind of a wheel of fortune type of thing, and he wound up getting a bunch of tickets.

Charlie wants to type something.

244 tickets is alot to win a prize . But I was tierd .

Comments

[purplemer3.livejournal.com]

Cool! So assuming you're speaking to someone who knows very little about computers (hypothetically, of course!) why are these programs so much better than something like Real Player or Windows Media?

[jessii-6.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Windows Media player - there have been rumors it makes 'protected' files - I haven't a clue as I didn't check. I have an automatic dislike since it's microcrap, but Real should be okay.
It's *heavy* 'though. So very very heavy on resources. Carol always complains that her PC is slow anyway.
Plus, those programs are free and open-code. you know what you're getting and you know there isn't any spyware in them to track what you rip, and how much (paranoya is meaningless to me since I'm out of IRAA's reach - but not to Americans)
I forgot I use Quitessential Player as my player of choice, which also happens to have ripping application inside it. I am pretty confidant winamp does, too. But on my PC Winamp is slower as well
sigh.. having P3/500 and winXP is not easy :)