The more I use Windows 7

[switch842]

The dumber I find it. It is in no way this HUGE improvement over XP. There are actually lots of things that are much dumber and counterintuitive than how they were in XP. And Media Player 12?? DUMBEST FUCKING THING EVER. There is no "Edit Playlist" feature. Seriously? I can't edit a playlist after I make it? Well, I can. I just have to open the playlist, start to play it in order to get it to load in the "Navigation Panel." Oh, and there's a fucking AUTOPLAY function built in somewhere so that when I add a file to a playlist it just starts playing it! Did I tell you to play it? NO! GAH!! Soooooo stupid. Seriously. Give me my damn XP back. Fuckers.

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[or-mabinogi.livejournal.com]

I've given up on making sense of Windows Media Player. At first when I was adding songs (drag and drop from my flash drive) everything would be added to the Library and it auto-magically filled in blank information (album title, year, track number, artist, whatever was missing). Then a few days later when I added more songs, it didn't do it. Actually, it did a couple of them but then stopped and didn't add the rest. And there is no function within WMP to manually add anything to the Library. Which means they never will be added. Ever. I have to go directly to the folder to play the song I want now, instead of being able to just hit play in WMP.

I've finished installed the new Ubuntu on my desktop. I'm going to work on transferring myself over to that and use my laptop less and less. My hatred for Microsoft just keeps growing.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

OK, yeah, wow. That's dumb. Microsoft is so stupid. I almost want to make a parody of those Windows 7 commercials going around just because I'm so POed.

Like, "I'm a simpleton. I have no idea how to manually resize windows. So I complained to Microsoft. They made this great feature and fucked up everything else. Windows 7 was my idea." And now it all makes sense...

[or-mabinogi.livejournal.com]

Also, in relation to your previous issue regarding vidding: I feel your pain. My story:

I loved Adobe Premiere. But when my Windows XP computer was failing, I installed my first ever Ubuntu, a GNU/Linux operating system. The poorest part of a Linux O/S is that it isn't very good in regards to graphics, especially editing, so I could no longer use Adobe. There is an emulator I could use, but even through that, Adobe would not work. Linux versions, usually good in other departments, were not worth the effort of a single-click install.

When I got my laptop (originally with Vista but soon after "upgraded" to Windows 7) I wanted a new version, but the best I could find was Ulead, which is put out by Corel. I can't figure it out because it wasn't what I was using before. I hate it actually, and can't make anything of it.

Now that I've installed the new Ubuntu on my refurbished desktop I've found out it comes with a video editor that has rave reviews. I'm hoping it will work but have yet to look into it. If it doesn't, I'm hoping someone has created a hack to make Adobe work. If it doesn't, I have to toss my vid bunnies into the fire. Or pass them on to someone else. Because I won't be able to do anything ever again. And I hate that.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

I even tried looking at Windows Movie Maker. And even that has me all "Bwuh?" I really just don't get it.

[or-mabinogi.livejournal.com]

I actually started on WMM, so I knew what it was about. (My first version of Abyss was through WMM which is why I did a redux.) Once I started using Adobe, I couldn't believe how useless the program was. BUT! It did serve its purpose. Even while using Premiere I would use WMM to at least cut out clips from episodes so my imports into Premiere were small and specific. Otherwise WMM isn't much use unless you want to throw together some still clips set to music.

I think my biggest problem with Ulead is the lack of audio wave visualization. I don't really have an ear for music so I kind of need that but Ulead doesn't show it, so it scares me to try to dive into using it.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Ah. See, I've never had that audio visualization thing. But, well, band geek. :-) As I edit, I just play the song and the hit pause on the beat where I need to, guesstimate how long a clip I need to go from there....