Yeah, my laptop, WTF!?

[CrAz3D]

So I took it in last saturday to have the HINGES fixed (they broke) yeah?...yeah.

BestBuy calls today saying they were just waiting for the motherboard to come in (which was 1 of 3 things).

Uhm, thats cool & all that its ready so quick, but, motherboard!?  WTF DID THEY DO!?  I hope I still have all of my stuff on there or I have a good ... umpteen BILLION things to download.

Can I take the songs off of my iPod & put them back on to my laptop?

[Newby]

Haha 0wn3d. If they aren't replacing your harddrive you are fine... :|

[CrAz3D]

Haha 0wn3d. If they aren't replacing your harddrive you are fine... :|

Dude @ BestBuy said that they generally reformat when they do hardware work ... but he said since it was just hinges I should be fine


but its now hinges + motherboard + something else

[Newby]

WTF? Why the fuck do they reformat... tell them to fuck off.

[CrAz3D]

WTF? Why the fuck do they reformat... tell them to fuck off.

I told the dude to put a comment on there saying DONT REFORMAT...God I hope they dont.

BUT!...he did say after 4 things go wrong they'll 'buy it back' or whatever.
SO, with these 3 things + the screen + the power chord, I'm over the limit...I wonder if BestBuy has any DECENT laptops

[rabbit]

Dell Latitude D820.  Very nice ^^

[Joe]

@CrAz3D: Get the iPod plugin for Winamp and you can right click it in the library tab for iPod and select "Move to hard drive" or something to that effect.

[iago]

I've had issues changing motherboards with Windows a few times, Windows stops booting and I have to format. 

I'd never ever take a computer in for warranty without backing up files first.  Don't they make you sign a big long agreement that says, "we are not responsible for loss of data"?  I know I signed one when I took my laptop in for warranty work..

[CrAz3D]

I backed up all of the important stuff...minus one folder for work but I can type those files out again (they're printed out at the office).

I'm just going to be missing all of my music and assorted programs I've collected

[iago]

Well, programs are generally not irreplacable, so you'd get over that. 

And your music sucks anyways (I'm assuming), so no worries there

[iago]

Can I take the songs off of my iPod & put them back on to my laptop?

Yes, but the filenames generally get smitten.  There are some programs out there to re-name files based on the ID3 tags, so if you have a good ID3 tag you're set. 

If you need it, I have a console-based Java program which will re-name files properly.  I think Sidoh made one too. 

[CrAz3D]

Using the filestore mode thing on my iPod I moved some songs from the iPod to my desktop...it had all of the ID3 info except songname

When I play songs I moved to desktop they have the ID3 tag!  Except for the Dave Mathews ones




1/2 of my music sucks & I never listen to it, 1/2 is random cool stuff, the other 1/2 is pretty awesome!  (yes, I know, 3 halves)

[MyndFyre]

(yes, I know, 3 halves)

Those are usually called "thirds". 

[iago]

Using the filestore mode thing on my iPod I moved some songs from the iPod to my desktop...it had all of the ID3 info except songname

When I play songs I moved to desktop they have the ID3 tag!  Except for the Dave Mathews ones

Yeah, iPods don't hurt the ID3 tag, so I expected it to be ok.  They just bugger up the filename. 

[Sidoh]

If you need it, I have a console-based Java program which will re-name files properly.  I think Sidoh made one too. 

Yeah, I did.  There are some glitches, but if you scan twice, it should take care of everything.  http://www.sidoh.org/~sidoh/music_manager.zip

Oh yeah: double click on "Artists" to expand the list.

[CrAz3D]

(yes, I know, 3 halves)

Those are usually called "thirds". 

...but only usually.

Yeah, most of my ID3 tags are good, BUT some dont have full tags, oops?  Oh well, I can get it to work eventually.

I do miss having the portability of my laptop though

[Sidoh]

The program I wrote (and I presume iago's performs in this manner too), you can specify the format of the target filename, ie: "%Artist% - %Title%", so as long as the ID3 tags contain the information you specify in the format, you should be good.

[CrAz3D]

The program I wrote (and I presume iago's performs in this manner too), you can specify the format of the target filename, ie: "%Artist% - %Title%", so as long as the ID3 tags contain the information you specify in the format, you should be good.

the ID3 tags arent all good, so, meh.

[Sidoh]

the ID3 tags arent all good, so, meh.

So fix the ones that aren't after pruning the ones that are good.

[iago]

The program I wrote (and I presume iago's performs in this manner too), you can specify the format of the target filename, ie: "%Artist% - %Title%", so as long as the ID3 tags contain the information you specify in the format, you should be good.

Nope, I designed mine solely for Hitmen, and consequently for myself and Newby.  It always does:
artist/artist - year - album/track-song.mp3

You can grab it at this URL, if you want to try it:
http://www.javaop.com/~ron/code/MoveMP3.jar

Run it in a console with "java -jar MoveMP3.jar", and it'll ask you for the directories and stuff.  It isn't pretty or anything, I didn't see much point since it was a one-off thing, I haven't used it since the first time.