[xI Jakk Ix]

Just remembered this. It's a plugin for iTunes. Link

[Wolf68k]

QUOTE (Ryan @ Friday, Jun 8 2012, 17:07)

I have a question myself. I use iTunes as my media player, and I know it has the built in feature that allows it to get album artwork for your music. I don't have a credit card, and even if I did, I wouldn't want to give my info just so I could get album artwork. So basically what I'm wondering is if anyone knows of any programs that get album artwork for your music?

If you mean give your CC info to get an iTunes account, then you don't need to give your CC info to do that any more. Haven't needed to in a good long while.
As for the album art itself I tried a number of different programs, most of them freeware but some trial/shareware, they either didn't work or were limited in some way...even the freeware ones.
Sadly the best solution I came up with is just Amazon. Also used a macro program to do the more repetitive stuff. I also used MP3tag http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ to inject the images into the files which it can also do as a batch.
Personally I like having each file to have the artwork equally even if they are on the same album. The "issue" with iTunes is that if it sees that more than one files is same artist and album it'll only put the art into 1 files or do like what you can see on Windows; a folder.jpg and artwork.jpg type of thing, it references all of the other songs to that file without actually adding it to the file itself.

I will admit that from what I hear TuneUp, which Jakk linked to, is good it'll do the album art plus correct spelling. Problem is how much they want for their product; $40 for 1 year for 1 computer or $50 for a lifetime but again for 1 computer. I'm pretty sure that also means when you upgrade your PC hardware it's a "new" computer which means you get to buy another copy. I could be wrong it's been a long time since I tried looking up an answer to that, however for $40 or $50 I want to be able to use it on however many computers that I own. Tie it to an account, fine. Hell even limit the number of computers to more than just one, fine. Maybe even make it so it's tied to the iTunes account itself which will limit it to the number of computers right there, no problem. But $40-50 per computer? Forget you.

[Ryan]

QUOTE (Wolf68k @ Saturday, Jun 9 2012, 12:58)

QUOTE (Ryan @ Friday, Jun 8 2012, 17:07) I have a question myself. I use iTunes as my media player, and I know it has the built in feature that allows it to get album artwork for your music. I don't have a credit card, and even if I did, I wouldn't want to give my info just so I could get album artwork. So basically what I'm wondering is if anyone knows of any programs that get album artwork for your music? If you mean give your CC info to get an iTunes account, then you don't need to give your CC info to do that any more. Haven't needed to in a good long while. As for the album art itself I tried a number of different programs, most of them freeware but some trial/shareware, they either didn't work or were limited in some way...even the freeware ones.

It must only be like that for Americans, because to register a iTunes account with a Canadian address it requires me to enter credit card info.

[Wolf68k]

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2534
Down where it says "Payment Type" there is no None option?

[_____]

QUOTE (_____ @ Friday, Jun 8 2012, 23:55)

I have updated to Firefox 13.0 recently and for some reason every time I open it, the same three tabs pop up and my customized positions for the Home button and the others don't save either. I get the tabs I got when I updated it the last time, every time I start the f*cking thing.

Quoting myself for the new page. Anybody know why this is happening?

[Ryan]

QUOTE (Wolf68k @ Saturday, Jun 9 2012, 13:35)

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2534 Down where it says "Payment Type" there is no None option?

Nope. See for yourself

[Slingaa]

How do I turn on my graphics card? When I use Can You Run It and things like that, it says I have Intel Intergrated Graphics, but I know that I have a separate graphics card.

[Wolf68k]

QUOTE (Ryan @ Saturday, Jun 9 2012, 13:42)

QUOTE (Wolf68k @ Saturday, Jun 9 2012, 13:35) http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2534 Down where it says "Payment Type" there is no None option? Nope. See for yourself

Then my only other suggestion is this, and this is what people use to have to do before Apple did add the None options (at least in some areas). Sign up with your credit card. Then after you know the account is made and working, remove the card info from your account.
If you do need to make a purchase through iTunes just get a gift card. That's all I use any more.



@blankguy
Exit FF
Go to C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla and remove the Mozilla folder; ie: Mozilla-mine
Restart FF and see if you have the same issue. If not then good then it's a issue with your extensions. If you do then besides suggesting to uninstall, plus delete whatever Mozilla folder is left behind in the Program Files folder and reinstalling clean, I have no clue.

Going back to the it is fine with a clean Profile folder, the one you renamed; exit FF again, rename the new Mozilla folder or delete it (personally I rename it to something like Mozilla-new or -clean, make it faster for the next time). Go into the Add-ons and start disabling them in groups of say 5-10 at a time, just go top down and make a note of which ones you're disabling. Restart each time until the problem goes away. When it does you'll know it was something in that group, no re-enable the ones in that group one at a time until it comes back.

I had an issue with YesPop causing every version of FF to after 3.x to reset the proxy to a manual setting. The solution I later figured out was to uninstall YesPop and then reinstall it again. You might have to use a similar solution. Might even need to go as far as uninstalling the troublesome extension, then opening the about:config to find any other reference to it and deleting that before reinstalling the extension again.


@Slingaa
Laptop?
Which one? Make and model

This post has been edited by Wolf68k on Monday, Jun 11 2012, 15:44

[Slingaa]

QUOTE (Wolf68k @ Monday, Jun 11 2012, 16:33)

@Slingaa Laptop? Which one? Make and model

HP Pavillion dv6 with a Radeon HD 6490M graphics card.

[Wolf68k]

Are both cards listed in the Device Manager?

[Slingaa]

QUOTE (Wolf68k @ Tuesday, Jun 12 2012, 16:56)

Are both cards listed in the Device Manager?

Yes, they are both enabled too.

[Wolf68k]

It might be just that the site you're using is only seeing the one card and not the other.
I have no idea how to disable the Intel graphics if they are on the mobo. If the CPU is a SandyBridge I don't think you can at all.

[finn4life]

Here's a tech question, a harder one i am sure.

With PS3 and not being Backwards compatible, it's an architecture difference right? I am just a little confused as to why it's a problem, if someone can explain in further detail that would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Is it because bus architecture is very different in the PS2 and the coding for the game needs to be converted into a code that the PS3 can understand? Do SPE's make a difference?

This post has been edited by finn4life on Wednesday, Jun 13 2012, 09:41

[Stinky12]

Just build a new system a few days ago and found out Intel's native USB 3 is not support under XP and Vista.
Anyone running a board with Intel native USB 3 with the affected OS will have to get a 3rd party USB 3 card or change their OS to Win 7.
There are some IB series chipset boards with additional 3rd party USB 3 controller, those may work under XP and/or Vista, if there is driver support.

Intel IB (Ivy Bridge) chipset boards: B75, Q75, Q77, H77, Z75, Z77

[illegal_luggage]

@finn
PS2 games run on the PS3 by emulation but for some reason they removed that on the slim models. The cpu and gpu in the slim compared to the original PS3 are the same but they've had a die shrink. This wouldn't affect its emulation capabilities. I think Sony disabled PS2 emulation in the slim as they were releasing some PS2 games on the marketplace.

On the Xbox 360 I would love a better emulator as Jet Set Radio Future goes to a crawl in certain places

[Exxon]

@Wolf68k
My PC just randomly crashed (BlueScreen) and I'm a bit worried, as this PC was quite expensive and I want to be sure it was just random and without a real cause (like damaged parts).
Here's the Minidump file:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BymV1-yaZWsJTnpJTkFkUV9nRWM

Can you take a look and see what happened?
It just happened when I was listening to music and browsing internet with Steam and MSI Afterburner (as always) running in the background.
Thanks in advance!

[Bad.boy!]

Does anyone know what program opens .dmp files? Just wondering.

[Gareth Croke]

QUOTE (Bad.boy! @ Thursday, Jun 21 2012, 21:13)

Does anyone know what program opens .dmp files? Just wondering.

You should be able to open it up in Notepad as a basic text file. Although some .dmp files also need to be opened in Excel... but mainly it's Notepad.

[Wolf68k]

@Exxon
I'll give it a look a bit later tonight....hopefully I'll remember

@Bad.boy! and Gareth Croke
It's a Windows minidump file, you need the Windows Debugger to open it and analyze it correctly.

[finn4life]

QUOTE (illegal_luggage @ Friday, Jun 15 2012, 20:25)

@finn PS2 games run on the PS3 by emulation but for some reason they removed that on the slim models. The cpu and gpu in the slim compared to the original PS3 are the same but they've had a die shrink. This wouldn't affect its emulation capabilities. I think Sony disabled PS2 emulation in the slim as they were releasing some PS2 games on the marketplace. On the Xbox 360 I would love a better emulator as Jet Set Radio Future goes to a crawl in certain places

I was doing some reading around and i found contrary, apparently each original console had the PS2 GPU/CPU in there "Emotion engine", the later PS3 80GB used software emulation, it was something like 80% of games worked, then Sony got a new marketing team adamant on cutting costs because so much was lost on every sale of the PS3 and the PS2 was still selling (Still is 30k units weekly) so they got rid of it.