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Post by didilynn on Jan 27, 2014 4:43:28 GMT -5
Dancey, I've been trying to download the Winstar songs - been working on it most of the day. I think I'm on the last one. I tried to queue them all up but they started with 17 Dragon Attack for some reason. Then the Mega site would lock up every couple songs and I have to exit out and back in - maybe when my computer went into hibernation, I'm not sure. Anyway, just checking....are songs 17 and 19 both Dragon Attack? Or is one of those supposed to be another song and somehow I messed up my downloads? Next step is to drag them into iTunes and see if I can make them into an album with the art - will let you know how that goes. Thanks for doing these for us!
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Jan 27, 2014 22:33:35 GMT -5
Dancey, I've been trying to download the Winstar songs - been working on it most of the day. I think I'm on the last one. I tried to queue them all up but they started with 17 Dragon Attack for some reason. Then the Mega site would lock up every couple songs and I have to exit out and back in - maybe when my computer went into hibernation, I'm not sure. Anyway, just checking....are songs 17 and 19 both Dragon Attack? Or is one of those supposed to be another song and somehow I messed up my downloads? Next step is to drag them into iTunes and see if I can make them into an album with the art - will let you know how that goes. Thanks for doing these for us! The Queen medley starts off with Dragon Attack, goes into We Will Rock You, and then back to Dragon Attack. So: 17 = Dragon Attack 18 = We Will Rock You 19 = Dragon Attack Reprise I could have done this all as one track. If you have gapless playback, which iTunes has, then it does not matter as you should not hear the slight pause when switching tracks. If you chose "None" for "Gap between songs" when making a CD from iTunes, then you should also not hear a pause between tracks when playing the CD. But let me know if you do and I can re-cut the medley as a single song. It would not take much time, so don't hesitate to ask. Do you have a very slow internet and/or internet connection problems? Another possibility: If you individually click on each song to download, Mega may display a popup window asking if you want to save the file for every file you download. Sometimes this popup window might get hidden behind the browser window and then it seems to lock up because nothing more will happen until you find the popup window and click on save. But if it chose to download 17 first, you probably did the folder download. I have not tried that, so I'll test it.
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Post by bamafan on Jan 29, 2014 23:45:42 GMT -5
I had the same problem...started with 17, then I got 18 & 19 and it froze up. I exited and came back in and had a different "menu" and just finished DLing each song individually as save as. I don't use ITunes, but put them in my Windows music file and burned a CD from Media Player. I synched the DLd PC folder to my Android phone.
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Apr 29, 2014 23:47:58 GMT -5
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Apr 29, 2014 23:53:28 GMT -5
What to do if your Windows XP PC cannot be updated to a newer version of Windows?
The problem is that some PCs running Windows XP are not compatible with any of the newer Windows operating systems and thus cannot be upgraded. The PC manufacturer should specify somewhere on their web site whether or not a particular model can be updated. I know that Dell has such information.
So, what can you do if your Windows XP PC cannot be upgraded?
1) Buy a new PC!!! Really the best option if you can afford it.
2) Install some flavor of the Linux operating system on the PC. Many Linux flavors now have very nice graphical user interfaces. FireFox is the default browser on most Linux installations. I recommend Ubuntu! And it is very easy version of Linux to install. The software that you bought for your Windows XP machine will not work on Linux, but there are a good number of free software packages on Linux that you pay big money for on Windows. There are also Windows versions for most of these free Linux software packages.
3) If you really have to keep using Windows XP, make sure you have a good highly recommended anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-adware software and a firewall software installed on the PC and keep them updated at all times! Set them up to check for updates automatically every day! And never use Internet Explorer again, switch to FireFox or Chrome. But note that you CANNOT uninstall IE from Windows - your operating system will become corrupt if you do!!!
4) Set your PC up with "Least User Privileges", a.k.a., "LUP". This is really important and something that most users do not know about. If you work in LUP mode, most viruses cannot be installed on your PC!!!!!! I will explain more in another post since this applies to all Windows operating systems.
5) Be very careful to not click on links in your email or on web sites that you do not fully trust!!!!!!!! This is the number 1 way that viruses get installed on your PC!!!!!!!!
So, if you decide to get a new PC running a supported Windows operating system, how can you safely transfer you data over. This is what I would do.
1) Make sure you have an updated anti-virus software on your Windows XP machine with updated virus definitions! Run the scanner on your entire PC.
2) Buy a new external USB drive. One as big or bigger than the size of your PC's hard drive will be fine. For a Windows XP machine, likely a 500 GB USB drive for about $50-$60 will be enough.
3) Plug in the USB drive to your PC and copy all of the files that you want to keep.
4) Run the anti-virus software again to check for viruses on the USB drive.
5) Make sure that you have an updated anti-virus software on your new Windows machine with updated virus definitions! Make sure that the new machine has been patched for this IE bug and any new bugs and that your anti-virus software has updated their virus definitions for this bug. Run the anti-virus on the entire USB drive.
6) Only then would I copy the files from your old Windows XP machine that you put on the USB drive to your new Windows (not XP) machine.
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Apr 29, 2014 23:54:14 GMT -5
How to Practice Safe Sex, umh, I mean Safe Computing (but now I have your attention )To understand how to protect yourself from the new Internet Explorer Zero-Day bug, it helps to understand the conditions under which your PC might become infected with this bug. Here's a good article about the Zero-Day bug that makes some points about this: www.pcworld.com/article/2148368/new-internet-explorer-zero-day-puts-web-at-risk-and-xp-isnt-getting-a-fix.htmlHere are some important excerpts: "This new remote code execution vulnerability, dubbed CVE-2014-1776, has the potential to give hackers the same user rights as the current user. That means a successful attacker who infects a PC running as administrator would have a wide variety of attack open to them such as installing more malware on the system, creating new user accounts, and changing or deleting data stored on the target PC. Most Windows users run their PCs under an administrator account.
These attacks aren't theoretical, either—security firm FireEye discovered these attacks being actively used in the wild. For these attacks to work, however, a user would have to visit a malicious website attempting to install the code. Microsoft says attacks could also come from "websites that accept or host user-provided content or advertisements" where an attacker could insert malicious code. ... Luckily, Windows XP users can easily mitigate this vulnerability by simply using any Web browser but Internet Explorer. For longtime IE users on XP, turning to Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox would be your best bet, both immediately and going forward.
Google has promised to support the XP version of Google Chrome until April 2015, while Mozilla has yet to announce a Firefox end-of-support date for XP. Should a vulnerability hit either of those browsers on XP it will be patched, unlike IE."
For those who absolutely must use IE, Microsoft advises downloading and installing the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 4.1. This utility helps to protect against malware and is available for Windows XP PCs with service pack 3 installed.
You can also run IE in a more secure mode by going to Internet Option s> Security and setting the slider to High."
So note that 2 conditions have to exist before your PC can become infected with this particular bug:1) You have to go to a web site that is infected with this bug using Internet Explorer! So, simply change to FireFox or Chrome. The advantage is that both FireFox and Chrome are continuing (Chrome for another year, FireFox for ??) to patch their software when vulnerabilities to bugs are found. Since Microsoft is no longer providing fixes for IE, it will become more and more vulnerable to new bugs as time goes on. Note the advice above for installing the Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) that can help protect a Windows XP PC. (This is the 1st time I have hear of EMET, so I'll have to do some more checking on it.) A good anti-virus software that is set up to scan any files that are being downloaded from your browser can also help prevent a web based bug from infecting your PC. I recommend using the full featured versions of security software and not just the cheaper anti-virus only versions, either McAfee All Access, McAfee Total Protection or Norton 360. Both of these programs require a yearly subscription, but are licensed to be used on multiple devices (PCs, tablets, smartphone, etc.) for a year. Check each software package for the exact details on how many multiple devices. You will also need the same sort of protection for your email. Be very careful not to click on any suspicious web links in emails or other web sites. 2) You have to be running your PC in Administrator mode to become infected with this bug!This is extremely important advice that most of the web sites talking about how to protect yourself from this bug are not really covering! All Windows operating systems support the ability to have multiple user accounts on your PC. You can have an account for yourself, your husband, children, etc, with everyone having a different login button and password if wanted. These accounts can be set up to have different capabilities. The 2 most important account types are "Administrator" and "Standard User" (may also be called "Standard", etc.). Access to an Administrator account is required in order to install almost all software on your PC (there are some exceptions for programs that do not access operating system functions). Most home computer users set their every day working account to be an Administrator account. This is usually the default given when you first setup your PC. But it is really dangerous to use an Administrator account for every day use!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Most bugs/viruses require that you be logged into the computer with an Administrator account in order for the bug/virus to install on your PC. So, by simply setting up a Standard User account for your every day work account, you can prevent your PC from becoming infected by most bugs/viruses. In Windows Vista, 7, & 8, if you want to install software while logged into a Standard User account, the installer will simply ask you for the Administrator password and then continue with the install. So it is critically important to use a really good password for the Administrator account so that your PC is protected from the bug trying to guess your password. If you don't use a password on your Administrator account, the bug/virus can easily infect your PC. It is a really good idea to use a good password with a Standard User account, but not as critical in preventing infections. As I remember, in Windows XP you have to log out of the Standard User account, log into the Administrator account, install the software, then log out of the Administrator account and back into the Standard User account. Yes, I know that's a real pain, but not nearly as much of a pain as getting a bug/virus!!! It is really easy to create an Administrator account for software installation purposes and then to reassign your current account as a Standard User account. It is just a bit different on each of the Windows operating systems. I'll see if I can find good instructions online and post them in the next few days.
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Jun 21, 2014 18:40:53 GMT -5
Instructions for burning FLAC audio files to CD on a Windows PC:Download & install a software that is capable of burning FLAC files to CD (both of the listed programs will burn many types of audio files besides FLAC): Commercial: PowerISO, $30 www.poweriso.com/Free: AnyBurn version 2.3 Download/Installation Instructions:Be careful which buttons/links you click on!!! Some will install junk on your PC. Follow the instructions exactly!!! Go to the AnyBurn software download page: www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Data-CD-DVD-Burning/Free-Any-Burn.shtml1st page: Click the BLUE "DOWNLOAD from Softpedia" button that is pointed link an arrow on the bottom. 2nd page: Click the BLUE "External mirror 1" link and not any of the other buttons/links. 3rd page: If the download does not happen automatically, click the link that says "Click to start it manually". Do not click on the red button that says "Download Now". Go to your "Download" folder. Double click on "anyburn_setup.exe" to install the AnyBurn software. Video instructions for AnyBurn:www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ5LU2nB8dwMy instruction for using AnyBurn:1) Open AnyBurn 2) Put CD in CD burner BEFORE next step or might not find CD 3) Click 2nd button on Left, "Burn Audio CD from mp3/flac/ape..." 4) Make sure "Burning drive:" shows the correct CD device or use dropdown box to find correct one. 5) Click "Add" button on bottom left. 6) In the file browser window that pops up, navigate to where the audio files are located. Click on files you want to add to burn list. Click "Add" button. 7) If files are not in right order in list, click on a file and use the "Move up" & "Move down" buttons to move that file up or down in the list. 8) Click "Next" button. 9) Keep default checks, but again check that the correct CD burning device is selected. 10) Click the "Burn Now". Note 1: AnyBurn burns the songs to CD, but does not burn the song titles. If you open up the burned CD in iTunes, it will just display "Track 01", etc., for the song titles. I THINK PowerISO will burn the song titles to CD, but I have not tested this. Note 2: If you are working on a Windows account which just has basic local user privileges, then you will need to supply the Administrator password during the installation of AnyBurn. (This is the way you SHOULD be working to minimize the risk of getting a virus on your Windows PC!!) The first time that you use the file browser to locate files in AnyBurn, the default location will be a folder in the Admin My Documents area. This is NOT the My Documents folder that belongs to your local user account. You need to navigate out of this folder and back to your local user account My Documents folder. To do this, navigate to the "C:\" drive and then to "Users". Find your local account name under "Users" and then the "My Documents" or "My Music" folder inside of this, or where ever you put the audio files. The next time, AnyBurn will remember the last place you navigated to.
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Jun 21, 2014 18:54:20 GMT -5
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Jul 2, 2014 2:32:09 GMT -5
On-line Tool for Converting Audio & Video File Formatsmmyy9 @mmyy9 5m If anyone wants to convert the format of audio/video files and doesn't have software for that, you can do it online: www.online-convert.com/
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Post by adamrocks on Aug 24, 2014 21:31:03 GMT -5
How to audio stream a concert.
mmadamimadamm @mmadamimadamm's instructions.
1. On your computer, set yourself up a channel on UStream. 2. Download UStream to your cell phone. 3. Hit the 'stream' button on the right of the screen on your cell. 4. Put the phone down and enjoy the show!!!! 5. If possible, provide me with a twitter handle of someone sitting with / close to you so I can reach out if there's a problem.
THERE IS NO LOSS OF ENJOYMENT OF THE SHOW SINCE YOU'RE NOT KEEPING YOUR ARM UP AND MAKING SURE YOUR CELL IS STILL VIDEOING THE RIGHT THING!!!!
WE HAVE ALL ENJOYED THE STREAMS THROUGHOUT THIS TOUR! AS WE GOT WISER, WE REALIZED THAT VIDEO STREAMING IS RARELY 'GOOD', BUT WHAT WE WANTED THE MOST WAS THE AUDIO!
SO IF YOU HAVE ENJOYED/BENEFITED FROM WATCHING/LISTENING TO A STREAM DURING THIS TOUR, PLEASE CONSIDER DOING AN AUDIO STREAM FOR THE 5 REMAINING SHOW WHERE WE DON'T HAVE ARRANGEMENTS MADE ALREADY:
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