Hi Bert,
I think it is a good thing that you hopped over to the forum about your problems, because both you and me (especially me) got fed up of 100 emails about something you are bothered about. Apparently you can't be helped by me, but maybe others can.
Ask Gerard. He could tell the same, and I actually hope he will. Everybody should who has these kind of problems.
But (with a wink to Gerard and him hopefully not being offended), I saw him operating on an actually too slow machine, and this is nothing else but clicking here and there and everywhere (I overdo it a bit
) until you can be sure that nothing will work anymore. I tell this my wife a couple of time per day, especially when working on a way too slow laptop, and this "user" always thinking that when nothing happens you have to click again. Or elsewhere. The more you click the worse it gets.
When do people at last understand this very general principle of PC's ?
Maybe after 1300 times telling this to my wife she is starting to get it. In either case though, the browser version is blamed, the internet is blamed, the neighbours are blamed, the laptop is blamed, all is blamed, and you know what ? all is justified. But actually one thing is really the matter : the PC performs poorly and there is no way to get this for some. Should you be interested in this ? well, if your life is to be without cursing all the time, maybe yes. If you like cursing, don't bother and curse away.
If you don't WANT to be interested or can't otherwise, well, you are lost. There is nothing else to do.
I will give one example of this interest, and this is not to sound nasty or anything, but is to put both feet on the ground instead of blaming something else :
This whole world of audio is about letting the PC behave. It just is so, and I didn't invent that it actually does not. Do you want to belong to this ? yes, I think so (if not bail out);
But *if* this is so, it is totally way way way beyond me how it is ever possible to continuesly look at a "100Watt" disk light going on each second all the time. At least cover it so you won't know it !
I say it again : this is not to sound nasty (at all !), but if one's behaviour is so inconsistently like this, he doesn't want to get it or just can't. In either case, quit this. It apparently is not for you. I said "apparantly", because it is inconsistent behaviour; want the best but don't want to do anything about it.
100 emails do not help.
NOBODY (but one
) receives this kind of support via email, and if this is a lie, speak up.
Sadly this also means that all this struggle stuff should be on the forum. But it is not.
The latter - and I am saying this explicitly - is NOT telling that no problems are there for some or maybe even many. I do say though that those people never asked for help, thus didn't get any. Thus have the problems. Thus use Foobar. Do I care ? not a bit. I *do* care about helping out though. I also do care about posts appearing here with an unjustified cynism (like you did in the other topic).
Well, I took this post out of another topic, to make it an explicit issue;
At this moment I don't care whether this will be about solving problems I don't hear about in this forum (so let's have it now !!) or whether it may be about a small change of mentality. For example :
Most of the unattended controls don't seem to work very well for me either I'm afraid, but it's never been a particularly big issue.
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PS. I've attached a jpeg of my desktop background that I use to help in unattended mode... shame most of them don't work for me
I certainly won't say this is more comfortable for me, but I will say there's another kind of mentality at work here. A more peace giving one (for the user) at least. But will it solve problems (without such a post) ? no.
But I guess it is about the proper combination, and how you can a. set yourself to deal with it without further problems and/or b. by judging all in a decent fashion so I can do something about it. Also : the first thing that I don't want to do something about some issue still has to come, which is different from not being able to because of not knowing what is actually happening. So think about my earlier example of the uselessness of mentioning gaps between tracks while at the same time your disk light is always on, not mentioning that latter. It is one example only, and I guess a 100 exist in practice. But how to know it.
I used Gerard as the actually positive example of someone with maybe similar problems, watching him to start pressing more and more buttons, while the real thing being wrong was waiting 30 seconds before a track starts to play "at your own command" because of setting the SFS to 240 which apparently the PC concerned can't take at all, which you HAVE to recognize because without doubt you tried an SFS of 10 as well and you should understand the difference. If you can't understand this, and THUS not tell about this - which is a major issue in the first place - you just CAN NOT be helped. I don't know how to approach this otherwise, except for (now) explicitly asking by means of this post.
But there is a difference. I mean, I don't recall Gerard complaining, and I never received any emails. Not one. So, understanding it or not, I don't see any cynism coming from him, and I only see him learning once it is told by a coincidental opportunity. One.
And "one" is already different from 10 which weren't even coincidental. There MUST be a mentality difference going on here.
The fact that problems like these are not reported, also is wrong. It makes it too easy for me to point to the forum and tell "it must be you - or something in your environment". And honestly, this too happened with Bert, while after some explaining from his side he certainly was right.
Putting a problem on the forum *is* no problem for me; the contrary, it is a good thing because people will jump in, may confirm the problem, may add things to it, and the problem can be solved more automatically than you think. Another example thus may be : what Mani just posted. "Most of them don't work for me". Well, that is strange. I never saw that on the forum, but minutes after one posts about it, a next confirms it. What are the simillarities etc. etc. This is already 10 times more easy to solve, than one telling it by email, that one coincidentally not being able to sort it out, which by itself is no problem. What *is* a problem though, is that when I tell that I use the volume at least 20 times per day, so it can't be an inherent problem, all the feedback I get is "thus it must be me ?". And thus again (and again, and again) : you won't let yourself helped by this means of operating because apparently it just can't work (or otherwise it would have been solved, of course). But put it in the forum, and things will be mighty different.
Right. This all looks like a mixed bag of sayings, angles and blaming, while I'd like to rather blame myself. Now, help me with that.
Peter
