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My computer is a prick.

The one I use in work is a stumbling has-been but I like it’s attitude of ‘Listen man, I hate this job as much as you do so don’t expect too much from me, just do your eight hours and then hit the showers’. So most of the time we get on fine.

My PC at home has a different tone, where the work one would be a fat kid with a gameboy, my home one is a smart little Pakistani kid. I’ve only ever really had minor problems with it and it’s generally a decent all rounder for games, downloading and graphics programs. But there is one thing that’s going make me punch a hole through the screen; the war between Musicmatch and iTunes.

I feel like the kid in Kramer vs Kramer, big stupid pudding bowl haircut wearing fool that I am. The bitchfest between the two programs (programmes?) is driving me mad.


Scenario 1:
I download a track and double click on it, I’m already listening to iTunes and then Musicmatch opens up. A dialogue box pops up saying in a sheepish manner something like: ‘We’ve noticed that Musicmatch isn’t set as your default for playing music, would you like to do set as default now?” I say no and yet the next time I double click an mp3 it opens up. Then why the fuck are you even mentioning the default thing? It’s a guilt trip with that dialog box.

Scenario 2:
I put in a music cd and for some reason it’ll only play in Musicmatch, next time I use iTunes I get the same guilt trip, ‘you’ve been using another music player you harlot,
Do you want to make itunes your default?’

Scenario 3:
iTunes tells me it can’t find a track that wasn’t added to the library but is in the list or whatever, I search for it, click on it and we’re back to scenario 1.

Probably doesn’t sound annoying but it is. Shit launching or tracks playing twice at the same time. Like two competing kids vying for my attention. iTunes is better but I hate the way if you click on something it opens up an online shop and Madonna and Marroon 5 is staring back at you from your screen, it’s like getting raped in your own home.

The sensible thing would be to delete Musicmatch. I have a Peter Frampton album saved in .flac format that only plays in Musicmatch and I need to keep it incase this piece of shit decides to start working. Ah I’ve ran out of steam. Good images though.


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