Pls help with Kazaa

You are NOT in the right place for help with this issue.

Firstly...you have asked a technical question, not posted a comment which generates a valid debate in these forums.

Secondly, all of us IT professionals have better things to do than assist people with problems they are having with software like Kazaa or WinMX. You are using a piece of software which is in many ways a 'legitimate' file sharing application, but the majority of Kazaa users are actually trading copyrighted materials and as such, use of this program is illegal and subject to pending litigation in more than one country.

Thirdly, we are not in the business of providing 'simple' answers to 'stupid' questions. Using a search engine or Kazaa's own help forums would provide you with much more information and some answers to your problem, but you need to make a little effort yourself.

You use Kazaa at your own risk (risk of infecting or corrupting your system, risk of prosecution) and you should be aware of these risks and research all these issues yourself before electing to install and use such a program.

Read ur suggestions in Q&A, will try. Thx.

"...however I tend to support towards Guru's answer as he is a very well known and respected member here. he isn't usually like that..."

Well known? Potentially.

Respected? Come on Oz old buddy, this is ME we are talking about here :-)

I personally AM familiar with Kazaa and KazaaLite. I personally use WinMX (I need to transfer files to and from work and my email server won't accept attachments bigger than 20Mb...a 15 minute training video could be 1Gb or more!)

I have however had to go into a company on more than one occasion and 'undo' damage caused by an employee using one of these programs on a corporate network and downloading what purported to be "Song A" by "Artist B", but on double clicking it expecting the MP3 to play in Winamp, it unleashed a rash of nasties which totally shafted a dozen workstations!

The problem Neodragon is experiencing is actually related to the filename containing non-ANSI characters (possibly named using double-byte Asian characters somewhere in the filename). The operating system can happily create a file with such a name, but can't then delete it! Renaming the file in DOS cures the problem. Of course, a simple trawl round the Kazaa help forums would have resulted in this answer in about two minutes! Many other 'active' forum members have stated my point on many occasions. We are NOT here to save somebody the 'effort' of typing half a dozen words into Google or Copernic and doing their own search. We ARE here to offer advice and opinion where such efforts have failed. Of course, I am always happy to offer an opinion whether it is welcome or not! That's all it is...my opinion!

Hehehe whoa GURU the slap I imagined I heard sounded like it broke the sound barrier. Which part of your anatomy did you use? Hand or your "jimmy" when you smacked him across the face?
Thx for the post it was a really boring day at work and that just made my day

Hi Guru,

While your posting did read more like one from OZ than your normal style, I do not think that you were out of line.

Being a confrontation avoider, I usually leave the file sharing questions and comments alone.

The RIAA's actions here in the US finally provided the opportunity to convince my daughter to stop using the file sharing networks.

Keep up the good work.

Chas

Nope I nerver heard of them. LOL. I love music and believe that it is man's greatest invention. To me nothing can effect a person like music can, it sparks memories of the first kiss, meeting a special person whether friend or more, regarless whether that song was playing during the actual event to merly hitting an emotion that sparked the memory. It just saddens me that its become to much a product that is deemed successful due to amount of record sales rather than just great music. Its become an formula having the missing tract, instrumental insert, a love song, radio song to generate sales, redone song from a previous band, and oh yeah I almost forgot the artistic tract that has some wierd talking phrase that means nothing but only the band understands this "genious". A music revolution is right around the corner as the majority of fans are refusing to buy these bland cds that they purposely hold back good songs to put on the next cd rather than make 1 great cd to ensure profitability and insert really bad songs that they wont even play at concerts.
Question for everyone, What would be the top 5 cds that are essential in your collection? I'm talking about the ones you never get tired of that you would reccommend to anyone to broaden their musical interests that from start to finish is great all the way through.
THis weekend I traveled to another city 3 hours to see Radiohead. I've seen many concerts in my life and never traveled for one and I wasnt dissapointed at all, they delivered and sounded like the cd so well, the only way I new it wasnt lipsinged was they changed the words here and there and went experimental on some songs. It was refreashing to see a concert without cheating for a change!!
Lastly OZ,the Metallica issue, I assume you were talking about Lars Ulrich about the beef? He is a greedy little weazle that sold out their great band for a payday forcing the band to use BOB Rock to get them crossover money in radio. Bob Rock ruined the band seeking money rather than music, the only one with Bob that was good and I will admitt that it was Load, it showed that they matured musically but feel back to crap with everything after. Their last good one was IN justice for all. I cant believe that they sold as many St. Anger cds as their claiming, its sooo horrible that they tried to prove that they could still rock hard for a really long song that should have been over after 1 minute.

MOST yet not all on line CD vendors are just music buffs with a website who want to get their music for free. I don't know HOW MANY requests and offers I've had to sell music online. Every Joe says he's a distributor (especially since PayPal, you can do that yourself).
Don't get sucked in by wannabes who simply have a website and want to look cool.

Make between 4 and 6 thousand copies and get them pressed by a reputable company, not a big company though, I've saved thousands on inserts alone by researching different offers.

When you get your copies made, get on your bike and sell them yourself. Record store to record store. There are several online distributors that will offer to get you store placement but the store positioning is more important. You want to be in the windows and on the bulk end displays not just bundled in with the Independent artists in the back of the store.

Foot work and many miles will get you seen and heard. For radio stations, build a decent press kit and a multimedia demo/presentation. Packaged with some local reviews and any other fluff you can add, then PRESOLD not just dropped off at a station will get you air-time. Remember, radio stations are paid to play a catalogue by the record labels who own the stations. Go for college radio and local indie radio first, when you have a few reviews, set up an appointment with a station manager or programming manager and sell you CD to the station. New laws make it virtually impossible for them to play unsolicited music.

God luck,
OM

PLAY AS MANY SHOWS ANYWHERE YOU CAN!!!

You will get absolutely NOTHING until your playing a lot of shows. CBS and Capitol have no need for their artists to play live (good thing because most of them can't)because they just pay for placement and promotion then pay the radio stations to play them on a rotation. If you're a useless musician but the radion plays you 4 times/hr for a week, everyone wil buy your CD. For the rest of the world, you MUST play live shows, over and over again, from local clubs to weddings, play them all regardless of pay. An audiance will pick up on your undying energy to be heard and you will gain a fan respect that most other artists don't.

This is my list of must-haves and the reasons why. In no particular order:

1) Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

Mark Knopfler is a fantastic guitarist and this is a brilliant album. It was also the first ever commercial release of an album simultaneously on CD as well as on vinyl and cassette (until vinyl became obsolete, CD releases generally followed vinyl releases...everyone had a record player in 1982...only 1 in every 20 households had a CD player!) and as such has it's place in history assured.

2) Clannad - Macalla

Some of the most 'haunting' vocals you will ever hear! Maire Ni Bhraonain has a voice that just gets to you. A blend of folk rock and Celtic language and legend. Track 4, In a Lifetime, features guest vocals from Bono of U2 fame.

3) Vivaldi - Four Seasons

The Polydor recording performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. This is probably the 'definitive' version of this suite and one the first classical recordings recorded digitally. It is so crisp and clear that you can actually hear the brass and woodwind sections drawing breath at the start of each movement.

4)Don Dorsey - Bachbusters

Classic Bach pieces with a digital 'twist'. A 1980's revamp of 'Switched On Bach'. The early work was the first classical album created entirely using electronic synthesisers. This work adds a new dimention by being recorded entirely digitally at every step of the way. No analogue audio was used in the creation of this masterpiece...all the sequencing was programmed onto a computer and the instruments were all 'played' using MIDI. The final digital mix was encoded directly onto the CD master in numerical form and at no time during the recording of the final mix was it ever heard as audio! The first time it becomes 'audio' is when it leaves the DAC in your CD player. Brilliant clarity and the highest dynamic range of almost any CD. Bach wrote good tunes...Don Dorsey improved on them...if that is at all possible!

5) Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

Still one of the greatest 'concept albums' ever. It is now thirty years old but still sounds as good as it ever did. If only today's technology was available when he first recorded it using multi-tracking and looping. You can hear the 'hum' and 'noise' from the old analogue techniques...like disconnecting the erease head from a tape deck to overlay additional tracks. If you remember The Exorcist, you will be familiar with the opening theme.

I think it was Brothers in Arms, Money for Nothing was the feature track.
You're right though, it was the breakthrough CD.

"everyone had a record player in 1982...only 1 in every 20 households had a CD player!) and as such has it's place in history assured."

1 in 20 housholds !! Sounds quite optimistic to me. In 1985, I was working as a sales manager at a high-end stereo store (yes I was YOUNG but eager and able). We had a Harman Kardon CD player (thier first) that retailed at $1800.00 Canadian. We sold a few at around the $1500 mark.
The low end JVC's were about $699.00, that's for a PLAIN CD player that didn't even have programmable tracks, just a repeat feature.

Brothers in Arms was the ULTIMATE demo CD in the soundroom, nobody had heard anything like it. I would then put on my Telarc copy of 1812 overture and blow up some cheap speakers (that was FUN!) before demonstrating good Missions or Paradigms.

Another good early CD was Time Warp on Telarc, it was a collection of cool sci-fi tracks and laser sounds etc. or the ever popular Kraftworks on CD, that was truly an experience into frequency range.

Another great album that MANY of you will scoff at is iron Maiden's Live After Death. It was a live album from the 1983 Powerslave tour.

For those of you who don't listen to or simply can't appreciate hard rock, Iron Maiden's claim to fame has never been screaming angst. They write about old classic movies and poetry. The Rhyme of The Ancient Mariner, Hallowed Be Thy Name, The Flight of Icarus, Quest for Fire, The Prisoner etc. For those with an open mind, the lyrics will surely amaze you, especially if you're one of the people who feel all hard rock is just screaming against society. Maiden is much more into the Progressive trance style of metal than the hammering. Not to mention some of the worlds finest musicians (yes, musicians).

Oh yes indeedie!

Don Dorsey's Bachbusters is on the Telarc Label!

I bought my first CD player in 1983! The two companies who first released commercial players were the co-developers of the CD, Philips and Sony. I had the original Philips CDP102 which retailed in the UK for ?299 (US$450). It was bloody heavy because the whole mechanical subsystem was steel and aluminium and it was solid and robust. Error correction and four-fold oversampling didn't arrive until a year or so later, so the original players had to be mechanically stable!

I shared a house at the time with a priest. He was a true audiophile and had a VERY VERY expensive Bang and Olufsen system which really was the 'mutts nuts'. The speakers stood 6ft tall and cost something like ?2000 (US$3000) EACH! I had my own system which was pretty reasonable, and with some judicious wiring and a 200ft roll of QED Monster 79 strand speaker cable, we wired a pair of speakers in each of our bedrooms, a set in the bathroom and even a set of 250watt 3 way car speakers in the downstairs toilet! This 'crapper' measured 4ft wide by 6ft long and the cistern was boxed into the rear wall with wood panelling to which we added some reinforcing and acoustic wadding.

Telarc released a CD Sampler, which had 'tasters' of some of their catalogue items. We also had a copy of The Best of John and Vangelis. The Telarc CD had one track, I forget the name of which, which was a classical military quick-step which started off with a rapid fanfare and then a cannon firing. One track on the J&V CD was Friends of Mr Cairo, which started off with a car slewing to a halt, then rapid machine gun fire.

Said priest also had a wicked streak in him! Oftenimes, some old dear from one of the Church groups would pop round for a natter. We would have already 'cued up' one of these two tracks and cranked the volume up to nigh-on maximum, with the amp switched through to the toilet. The B&O amplifier had virtually zero noise with no source playing and the toilet had a small extractor fan which drowned out any hint of anything untoward so our 'victims' were always unsuspecting. Imagine the results when an old biddy is half way through a comfortable pee and we hit the pause button on the CD player!!

OZ mate....you do NOT have the monopoly on being an 'asshole'!!!

don't steal movies or music and you won't have this problem

Well we all have our moments, I just find I have many of them. :-)

As for Phillips co-designing the CD player, that's what I'd originally thought too. To be REALLY picky, it was actually Denon (who is the mother company for Phillips Electronics). Denon and Phillips released IDENTICAL units at the same time, the Denon was almost twice the price ($1099.99 CDA)though due to their name in the high-end audio market.

Talking of scaring women on the pisser, I came home when I was about 17, REALLY DRUNK, at about 3AM. When I ot up the stairs I grabbed the bathroom door handle and just walked into it, it was closed so instead of just pushing the door open, it crashed in with me laying on top of it, only to find my very surprised and screaming mother sitting on the toilet! (Mom's never sleep till the kids are safe at home)
I don't think I will EVER live that one down.

I had to back up the thread to post my response so I lost the postees name that had the chuckle, I thought it was Chas but it turns out to be yourself. EVen funnier, you know how pristine these elderly British women are! Coronation Street to the core.

"You should look in the mirror. You're the freak show. Most people try to be honest"

You say this after expecting to belive your statement that you have NO unauthorized software installed, you have NEVER made a cassette tape, you have NEVER recorded a movie from your VCR etc.

I say bullshit and you're full of it.

"You're the freak show" What kind of kiddie comment is that?!?

If you knew the FIRST thing about the RIAA, record companies and the industry, you'd have a completely different opinion, liar.

you of all people should know better than to go around stealing people's music - ya youbought 50 cd's because you sampled them online. woo woo. you wouldn't have bought them otherwise. boo hoo.

hey if you steal, it's your karma you're fooling with.

"ya you bought 50 CD's because you sampled them online. woo woo. you wouldn't have bought them otherwise. boo hoo."

How many NEW CD's did you buy last month that you wouldn't have bought before because you didn't know the artist? If one, I'll give you points for that.
Now. How many CD's did you buy last month because you were loyal to an artist?

Now. How many CD's have you bought, period.

If I called each artist who's songs I'd never heard of but I downloaded and then bought the CD, how many do you think would be upset? None, you're right, another 2 points.

So go and do your part, but 50 CD's unheard and see how happy you are with them, all the songs.

Now, download 75 different songs, a couple from each artist. Do you think your 50 CD's you buy will be more appreciated? Yes, of course, another 2 points and a cupie doll for needs-a-raise, just don't neglect teddy for your new dollie.

Big Mac stealing? Big Mac Stealing? WHat am I the Hamburgler? Has anyone ever heard of a rash of people stealing big macs? Whoa pass the opium pipe there fella. You dont know what youre talking about. The point of my post was to point out the hypocritical black and white, right and wrong issue. There is such thing as the grey area that everyone indulges in whether purposedly or inadvertantly. It makes me laugh when people speak matter o factly pronouncing their inflated morality that they rarely follow. I merely put a mirror up to see everyone's flaws, we are human, not perfect. I have never met a person who didnt copy something lets face it there are scanners, cd burners, dvd burners, video tapes, tape records, with all forms of blank media. Whats their purpose for the ability to record? All these companies sold the public on the premise to copy whatever not back up data, not one company merchandised their product that way. There is no reason anyone needs this feature for home use only for professional use, but everyone has these items specifically to be able to copy their desired media. Even computer manufacturers marketed their computers to copy all media to sell their computers, including internet providers claiming high speed downloads for music and programs in their commercials and advertisements. Truth is everyone has bought and used these products and services. It is also truth that the so called artists that put out their music were loosing money on their concerts not their cd sales because people didnt have money to go to the shows forcing them to cancel tours or cutback on the tours. After Napster people began experiencing music that they were always curious about that wouldnt buy in the first place. The result was more appreciation for other music stimulated more crossover sales and a resurgence in concert sales that were going bankrupt due lack of talented perfomances and lame cds including blank media sales that stimulated many economies. The weak were culled where the quality al least the best of the horrible flourished. Its fact that cd sales still flourish despite sharing, movies still make tons of money as people still go to the movies and buy/collect all versions of the dvd/special editions. The artists arent mad only a few, its the RIAA and record labels who want every last penny that they could squese from the talented artists that could create our entertainment, they are leeches claiming someone stole their idea. Last time I looked firebird copied the camero, fiero copied the mr2, and everytime I go into a store there are many brands that look the same but they all couldnt have had the same idea. We were given this ability to copy as long as we dont make a profit from it. What you or I do with it is our business. If I buy something, lets say a book, I can burn it, wipe my ass with it, collect all copies, read it over and over, lend it to a friend, etc... They sold the product to me and its my property to do with as I see fit, they got paid according to the agreement.So tell me where all the high and mighty morality there is in business or in everyday life that everyone practices. IF I am kept from the pearly gates due to my copies that I dont make a cent off then so be it.

Max, please be so kind as to explain how to keep something in memory, as I cannot seem to grasp the concept :oP

You don't remember or you don't remember?

I'm more of a man than you'll ever be!

I was almost as illiterate as your posts! It is pretty obvious that you and Neodragon are just another example of 'file-sharing weenies' who have nothing better to do than bother the rest of us who have 'real' issues to discuss.

We live in the 'real' world, have to produce results in real-time and get involved in real IT. Funny how that is also the tag-line for TechRepublic. The majority of us are in environments where getting involved with illicit filesharing or downloading pirateware like Kazaa could cost us our jobs or (at least in North America) land us with a huge fine or a jail sentence.

When we engage in 'recreational' debate, we talk politics, religion and a whole host of esoteric subjects. Judging by both your and Neo's inability to string together a correctly spelled, structured or punctuated sentence, most of the debates on here would be above you.

There is no excuse, other than ignorance or laziness, for such a writing style and this is reflected in the sort of questions that we get asked by Neodragons sort. Rather than bother to do any research, they ask people like us to assist with their 'illegal or immoral' activities. Obviously, reading the Discussion Forum FAQ was also too much for him/her prior to posting because then it would be obvious that the place to ask questions is in the Q&A area.

I will concede that his/her opening line in the post was at least admitting ignorance, but again, this is no excuse.

If you have something to say to me in future, the place to do so is in the forum, keeping everything in the context of the discussion. Only a silly little adolescent would post telling another similar person that they has sent me an email 'telling me off'.

On the grounds that some of us more 'mature' members have 'been down this road before' I will NOT quote or reveal the exact contents of your last email. However I will state here and now, that any subsequent message you send me privately from now on WILL be publicly posted in this forum. I am telling you this so that you are aware of the fact. Anything you wish to say to me you can say publicly. I don't think my reputation (such as it is) around here can possibly be harmed in any way by anything YOU have to say. If you aren't man (or woman) enough to post publicly and insist on sending assinine private communications, I WILL MAKE THEM PUBLIC.

You (and your sort) have been warned.

DO you really give them THAT much credit as being men?

Don't hold your breath Guru, nobody cares about losers in this world anyway. bottom feeders like this ar better just stepped over than upon.

Thank you G.O.D. for being one of the few voices of reason in this thread
1) I'll give Ozmaniac credit for being partially right - some music 'sharing' leads some customers to go out and buy. But it still don't make it right. 2) Ozmania and others completely ignored my beef about MOVIES being stolen. Bands can go on tour; actors and movie studios HAVE to sell tickets or DVDs or rent their vids to make money. I scoured my tape library at home and I do have a couple of Andy Griffith marathon tapes - closest thing I have to unauthorized media. I'm going to dump them and go buy the dvd collection. gotta put my money where my do-gooding mouth is.
3) SOFTWARE PIRACY. The person who noted that MSoft got brand loyalty out of all those pirated MS DOS disks I think is right - MS got new customers long term but they still lost money at the time the software ws being copoied illegally.

To anyone who thinks pirating is ethically okay, I still would like to go into your place of business and take for FREE whatever you're making or selling and see how you like it. My guess is you won't. IT'S THE GOLDEN RULE FOLKS. DO UNTO OTHERS!