New Wye Oak album today! I pre-ordered it weeks ago, and when I turned on my PC this AM, there was a message from iTunes saying it was available for download! Yay!<\/p>\n
So... I started iTunes, told it to start downloading, and went to play some Facebook Scrabble™. Boom! Error #50! Download failed about 1\/3 of the way through for each of the first three songs! Grrr... OK, iTunes, restart the download on those three songs. It restarts, then finishes them and all the rest without further problems. Yay!<\/p>\n
I decide to burn the album to a CD so I can listen on my way to work. iTunes says \"No, these songs are not authorized!\" \"The fuck?\" I ask. I play the first few seconds of each song, to see if it will prompt me to login and authorize any of them. Nope. No issues. Try to burn again. Same fail. Restart iTunes, retry the burn. Same failure. Restart the PC. Same failure.<\/p>\n
Poke around the internet to see if anyone else has had this issue. Yep. Plenty. No resolution.<\/p>\n
Then I see a comment on a message board where somebody says you can use Windows Media Player to burn iTunes songs. \"The fuck?\" I ask. So I try it. And, yes indeed, WMP can<\/i> read and burn iTunes song files (.m4a files) to CD. Wow! I am the master of my digital media! Epic win! <\/p>\n
Get in my car, put the CD in, it starts to play... about 1:00 into the first song, there's a 5 second silent spot. Odd. About 1:00 into the second song, there's a 5 second silent spot. \"The fuck?\" I ask. About 1:00 into the third<\/i> song, there's a 5 second silent spot. The rest of the songs are OK.<\/p>\n
So apparently instead of restarting the failed downloads, iTunes simply resumed them from the places where the download failures happened; and it didn't care that the last data it received was garbage, thus resulting in five seconds of silence in each of the files. Then it screwed up the authorizations for them.<\/p>\n
That's it. No more buying songs from iTunes for me. Fucking idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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