This weekend I decided to try using the Zune Marketplace as I had some extra Microsoft points lying around. I initially budgeted 10 minutes to this task but apparently I was foolhardy to think it would be that easy.
After trying to sign in to the Zune marketplace with my Passport Windows Live ID, I receive the helpful message along the lines of ‘Error 87, Please try again later’.
To make a long story short, the next day and 3 hours of phone support later, my own investigations on google (while waiting on hold) led me to the fact that upgrading my hardware would disable DRM on Vista, and all of Microsoft’s instructions for resetting the software were a dead end. Finally I found a helpful blog entry which pointed to a tool that the Napster online music store provides to reset the DRM.
So 36 hours after first trying to purchase and download a song I finally was successful. But seriously, is it really necessary to disable DRM and make me go through all this pain merely because of a CPU upgrade?
If someone reaches this article after searching with regards to this problem here is the link to the blog entry that finally solved it for me:
So it has been a while and now I’m back out on the west coast again. I’m heading back to school in a couple weeks but I thought I could at least post a photo or something.
Below is a shot of the San Juan Islands taken this weekend when I went out there with some friends. It was taken from the walkway coming off the ferry at Anacortes Ferry Terminal.
Check out what you can do with Windows Vista. You can make your windows pink, and have bubbles and a unicorn background!
Well after a long night of rehearsals and an AI project, at least Dr. Scheme was able to give me some enjoyment. Apparently I’m not allowed to quit :).
So Apple, among other things released Itunes 7 today. While this seems to be an overall positive release I noticed one thing which really irks me. They added two new views for the music library. An album-grouped view and a sort of 3D – Flip view (a la Flip-3D). The annoying part is that these new views are not enabled for shared music libraries. This just baffles me. Itunes apparently supports album art over the shared music library, so why disable these features? Otherwise the interface for the shared and local is completely identical. I have pasted screenshots below. If you look closely you will see that the view buttons are disabled for the shared view.
The Local Library
The Shared Library
Anyway I hope apple fixes this in the next release.
-Ben