Author Topic: calling all computer geeks (Read 3404 times)

justiceiro · « **Reply #23 on:** 11-25-2007, 08:53am »

Quote from: RB on 11-24-2007, 08:31pm

Quote from: MCA on 11-24-2007, 05:51pm
Quote from: RB on 11-21-2007, 10:26pm
I have one of the Battlestar Galactica seasons on ITunes...

Hey Rory, if this is Season 3, I would love to borrow the DVDs after you've gotten your burning issues settled.

TIA,
Cheapskate

Certainly.

ditto on season 3 of BSG por moi, I have one and two on my itunes as well. $35 is a tad steep, thuogh

RB · « **Reply #22 on:** 11-24-2007, 08:31pm »

Quote from: MCA on 11-24-2007, 05:51pm

Quote from: RB on 11-21-2007, 10:26pm
I have one of the Battlestar Galactica seasons on ITunes...

Hey Rory, if this is Season 3, I would love to borrow the DVDs after you've gotten your burning issues settled.

TIA,
Cheapskate

Certainly.

MCA™ · « **Reply #21 on:** 11-24-2007, 05:51pm »

Quote from: RB on 11-21-2007, 10:26pm

I have one of the Battlestar Galactica seasons on ITunes...

Hey Rory, if this is Season 3, I would love to borrow the DVDs after you've gotten your burning issues settled.

TIA,
Cheapskate

Soshin · « **Reply #20 on:** 11-22-2007, 08:22am »

Quote from: RB on 11-21-2007, 10:26pm

I'm seeking help from the computer nerd community. I have one of the Battlestar Galactica seasons on ITunes (), so I bought some recordable DVD-Rs and burned the episodes onto them. But when I tried playing the disc on my DVD player, it said that this kind of disc is not readable by the player. However, a friend burned a movie for us onto a disc and I'm watching it right now. It works fine on the DVD player! Where did I fuck up?

It could be a number of things:

What format are the itunes files in? Are the converted to VOB (which is what normal DVD files are)?

Do the itunes files have digital rights copy protection in them?

Is your DVD player a DVD+ or DVD- compatable, will it play anything OTHER than VOB? DIVX? WMA?

Check the disc type against the compatability of the DVD player, I recently bought a new DVD player because my old one would only play DVD- discs and it was becoming a pain in the ass.

RB · « **Reply #19 on:** 11-21-2007, 10:26pm »

I'm seeking help from the computer nerd community. I have one of the Battlestar Galactica seasons on ITunes (

), so I bought some recordable DVD-Rs and burned the episodes onto them. But when I tried playing the disc on my DVD player, it said that this kind of disc is not readable by the player. However, a friend burned a movie for us onto a disc and I'm watching it right now. It works fine on the DVD player! Where did I fuck up?

thebes · « **Reply #18 on:** 08-29-2007, 06:12pm »

200GB

Quote from: bdlaw on 08-28-2007, 10:39am

How big is the drive? What operating system are you running on the computer?

I may have some vendors I work with who can help you but it might be $$$.

thebes · « **Reply #17 on:** 08-29-2007, 06:12pm »

Thank you so much alek. It looks like data retrieval is a black art. It will probably cost me $1,500 to retrieve the data.

My brother reassures me that no one cares about baby pictures and really I can just use photoshop to recreate all my memories (and you wonder where my need for a good burn when I'm feeling blue comes from!)

hhhmmmmm... I disapprove of data retrieval!

alek8.5 · « **Reply #16 on:** 08-28-2007, 02:08pm »

Quote from: thebes on 08-28-2007, 01:19pm

I'm looking for a recommendation for a decent to great company.

Sorry to hear this. Seriously. I'm having sympathy pains.

I had a similar catastrophic hd failure a few years ago. One of my two 500gb HDs in a striped raid went bad. Researched a bunch of online data retrieval services. At the end I decided to bite the bullet and went to the professionals. For $2K, Kroll On Track Recovery opened up both drives and saved approximately 700gb of data.

Yes, their services are obscenely expensive but I believe at the time, they were the best. The other reason I went with them was that they had a location in Secaucus - I was able to drop off and pickup so I didn't have to take any chances with additional shipping damage.

http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com

thebes · « **Reply #15 on:** 08-28-2007, 01:19pm »

Hard drive kaput. I've taken it out and used an external driver to try to get information off of it. I've also had the computer geeks at my partner's work place look at it, it's a financials software company.

I'm not sure as to the size and I know this will probably be a minimum of $500 without any guarantees, but i've decided it is worth it and that my lesson is learned. AND i am never buying from Gateway again.

It's Microsoft XP? Not Vista (sp?)

I'm looking for a recommendation for a decent to great company.

duke_of_earl · « **Reply #14 on:** 08-28-2007, 12:56pm »

Quote from: thebes on 08-28-2007, 09:48am

Ok my computer, it no work... not even a little. To make a way too long story short, the hard drive is making that crazy noise that says, "you can send it out for data retrieval, which is very expensive, and hope for the absolute best possible results... no guarantees buddy."

Could anyone recommend any particular place?

thebes:

It doesn't boot at all? No screen? Or it shows the bootup screen and then freezes?

If it weren't for the grinding sound, then I'd recommend that a friend chain up your harddrive to their computer and copy everything to DVD's, but the grinding could actually be damaging more data.

doe

Binky · « **Reply #13 on:** 08-28-2007, 11:58am »

DiskWarrior.
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/

bdlaw · « **Reply #12 on:** 08-28-2007, 10:39am »

Quote from: thebes on 08-28-2007, 09:48am

More computer geek help, please... Missa? you out there? glx?

ANYBODY!!!!!!???

Ok my computer, it no work... not even a little. To make a way too long story short, the hard drive is making that crazy noise that says, "you can send it out for data retrieval, which is very expensive, and hope for the absolute best possible results... no guarantees buddy."

Could anyone recommend any particular place?

This is a very odd situation where I have to say that I backed up all my stuff 6 months ago, but in those six months was a big event.... is it worth all that money to retrieve all the photographs. The answer is yes. Even though I hate to part with money, I will never forgive myself for losing all though memories.

thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide.

How big is the drive? What operating system are you running on the computer?

I may have some vendors I work with who can help you but it might be $$$.

thebes · « **Reply #11 on:** 08-28-2007, 09:48am »

More computer geek help, please... Missa? you out there? glx?

ANYBODY!!!!!!?

??

Ok my computer, it no work... not even a little. To make a way too long story short, the hard drive is making that crazy noise that says, "you can send it out for data retrieval, which is very expensive, and hope for the absolute best possible results... no guarantees buddy."

Could anyone recommend any particular place?

This is a very odd situation where I have to say that I backed up all my stuff 6 months ago, but in those six months was a big event.... is it worth all that money to retrieve all the photographs. The answer is yes. Even though I hate to part with money, I will never forgive myself for losing all though memories.

thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide.

elgoodo · « **Reply #10 on:** 05-17-2007, 10:10am »

Awesome!

thebes · « **Reply #9 on:** 05-17-2007, 10:01am »

Congratulations on having the thorn pulled out of your side.

Mr_Grieves · « **Reply #8 on:** 05-17-2007, 09:18am »

I know y'all been knocking yourself out looking for a solution to my dilemma but search no more. I can't believe I finally got one and I feel like it's my birthday. After endless roaming of geeky audio forums, begging friends, asking on mindless and some not so mindless forums, I finally found a programmer who modified his ripper program (Max) to work with my files. Yippee!

Mr_Grieves · « **Reply #7 on:** 05-16-2007, 03:23pm »

Apologies in advance for the personal and technical nature of this post, but I'm getting more desperate. My problems continue in trying to properly tag my MusicMatch files. The short of it is that my music files are tagged ID3v2.3 tags and there doesn't seem to be a program other than MusicMatch that will recognize them. I need a programmer who can convert them. Can someone point me in that direction? Thanks.

Mr_Grieves · « **Reply #6 on:** 05-10-2007, 09:00pm »

Thanks!

elgoodo · « **Reply #5 on:** 05-10-2007, 01:14pm »

Mr. Grieves -

I am fwding this problem over to my computer expert buddy who has a lot of experience with converting and storing massive amounts of media. I'll let you know if he has any ideas or advice.

Mr_Grieves · « **Reply #4 on:** 05-10-2007, 10:37am »

Generally, the MusicMatch files are not compatible with other jukeboxes. Yes to MediaMonkey to an extent, but even that program has problems with it although they've supposedly got a fix for MusicMatch WAV files. The WAV "tags" are not written so other programs can recognize them. I've come to the conclusion the only solution other than converting and editing every track manually is to find a programmer familiar with this stuff. If anyone knows of anyone, I'd greatly appreciate a referral.

BRJC · « **Reply #3 on:** 05-09-2007, 11:31pm »

http://www.blazemp.com/convert_wav_to_mp3.htm

Binky · « **Reply #2 on:** 05-09-2007, 11:13pm »

OMG. There has to be a better way. My deepest sympathy, but I have no answer. Are MM libraries compatible with any other jukeboxes? Can you drag a song file out onto your desktop, and does it retain any labeling info?

PS Is this of any help? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93390

Mr_Grieves · « **Reply #1 on:** 05-09-2007, 07:28pm »

I have a real pain in the ass problem that's causing me a lot of agina. I've literally spent hours and hours over the past 6 months researching and experimenting on how to resolve it. I've asked on all sorts of forums and still, I get nowhere. I hereby throw my hands up in the air. At this point, I'm willing to pay a tidy sum to someone to fix this for me. So....

I've got about 25,000 WAV files which were created with a very proprietary windoze program, MusicMatch. Most other programs won't read the tags mainly because there are no tags in WAV files.. MM stored the info in a small file somewhere. So, I'm stuck with using MM, a crappy program which was sold not long ago to Yahoo who doesn't really support it.. they have their own program. God knows why they bought it. I also switched to Mac, which is kind of forcing my hand to resolve this.

Basically from what I gathered, what needs to be done is to convert the WAV files to another format (I only want lossless, i.e., FLAC or AIFF) and then... well, the way I see it, the tags are going to have to be edited manually. That's a lot of tags to edit. I no longer have the time or patience for this.

My question: does anyone know of someone who's savvy about this stuff and wants to earn some dough? I tried craigslist and got no response but maybe I put the ad in the wrong place.

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