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User Name Aikousha
Member Since 2004-10-26
Total number of Feedback Posts: 7
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Ashampoo Media Player+ 2.03 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
At least list the codecs that are available for this version!
I have to find a very low CPU using player that will play (and possibly transcode) the newest WMV codecs (audio and video) that most other players cannot play. WMP clogs the system so much I cannot use it unless I stop everything else. Without that codec information, I'm not even willing to risk my system security or time, in downloading it. Details here are a good thing It's unfortunate that thousands of morons insist on using microsoft based video codecs, when there are at least a dozen free codecs and encoders that do a better job, and are completely cross platform usable. [alert admin]
Thursday, July 21 2005 @ 06:11 AM PDT
SoundConverter 20050208 (Mac OS X)
A product actually has to work for one... Everytime I tried to use this, no matter what the dozens of tranlations I tested, it did nothing but show the aqua barber pole. Since iTunes can do a lot of translations of 5 minute segments in less than 5 seconds on my machine, I figured giving this 5 minutes on several conversions would be sufficient, but it did nothing other than spin the "pole". On the assumption that the cascade system crash caused by Apple's 10.3.8 upgrade may have interfered with something after I rebuilt my entire system, I went to Drexel university to test it, with a machine built specifically to test software. THE SOFTWARE NOT ONLY HAS SPYWARE, BUT IT MUST CONNECT TO THE WEB TO EVEN WORK! This makes the developer a liar, since it distinctly says that you only need to be on the web to purchase it! The demo WILL NOT WORK without a minimum of 3 server connects! And by all indications, it has to do this for the full version as well. Since I work primarily with large audio/video/graphic files, there is no way my working mac will ever see this program... Based on other reports about lack of mentioning sources, and the only 1 machine bit, these are other reasons to avoid this. I'M TIRED OF LOSING GOOD SOFTWARE TO SYSTEM UPGRADES, I'm not gonna pay anything for a piece of sofware that can also be lost to me upgrading to the next architecture. I've had 5 Macs in my life so far, and only 2 programs were tied to my previous machines, and their companies freely allowed moving to another machine once I notified them. U hate software and companies that assume you MUST have an internet connection no matter who you are and what you do. Suffestions to others -- If you have Virtual PC (or one of the less capable PC emulaters, use them, in conjunction with a Windows based piece of freeware that does the same thing. You may have to trace down up to 3 titles, but at least it'll probably work through the next 5 years and whatever machine you're on. Somebody will eventually get a Mac equivalent. [alert admin]
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Sunday, March 20 2005 @ 11:01 PM PST
iCDc 4.3.3 (Mac OS X)
Missing Feature & Locked Up Dialog Box
A feature that is either missing, or just doesn't work, is a merge function -- The ability to grab any other .cidb file from somewhere else, and add it to yours. One would expect to be able to do this from "Import..." but it doesn't. This is very handy if you have several "users" and can't share the info across log-ins. Also, in testing this, I found it locks-up consistently in a "can't find" the album information (gives an Okay button which is defaulted, but does nothing when clicked or "entered") whenever I give it several que'd albums to lookup. Kind of useless, since the only way to get rid of the dialog box is to quit, which throws away all the information. BTW, none of the albums presented were without information -- all presented the info when I put the discs in the drive, all over again (but had it do an immediate lookup). Full Edit, merge, and duplication removal would make this a keeper for sure. Especially since I keep losing my CD Info files to system crashes. [alert admin]
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Friday, February 25 2005 @ 11:08 AM PST
eeCD 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Interface is completely frelled!!! 
Can't review this any further than to just give it a zero. Seems to unpack fine, but when it runs... no matter what mac running whatever version of OSX, all text boxes and list boxes come out with vertical stripes in dark green and purple. It makes the text within impossible to read. I've never seen this happen in system dialog boxes before. [alert admin]
Tuesday, February 08 2005 @ 12:43 PM PST
ROUTE 66 Route USA 2004 3.6.0 build 4 (Mac OS X)
SUGGESTION: Buy Virtual PC and Street Atlas USA for the PC! This is first generation shareware quality. 1. The program is horribly slow 2. Somebody doesn't know about the Human Interface Guidelines 3. Where the hell is the ability to mark anything for your own personal use (only push pins?) 4. If you create a category, there is no way to remove it! All errors are permanent!!! Not even edit capabilities to correct entry errors. 5. Database of locations is sadly lacking compared to SAUSA (try Game Stop) 6. No route marking? 7. To mark several locations with Push Pins, I had to go to Yahoo Maps to find the real location on several streets without addresses (numbers). 8. Almost all functions cannot be accessed by Hot-Keys or Menus, only by the toolbar. 9. Toolbar icons are impossible to distinguish if you have any kind of vision impairment 10. The search function is severely limited and difficult to understand. 11. It takes up a HUGE amount of space. 12. Overlays for data like route markings, personal markers, labels (There are no label functions?!?), push pins (chuckle), regions, etc., should be saved as separate files, so that you can swap between them as needed (and would allow public transporation utilities and the like to build overlays for people who own the program). However, how can a program without a save, export, or import function possible have something so NECESSARY in a mapping software? I.m not totally sure, yet, but the only thing going for this, is that the street database (the vectors) are pretty accurate. Screw Rand McNally, I think the Thomas Brothers company needs to get in on the electronic map business... They did California maps the BEST, surely they could do a better job with this. It's too bad I waited too long to install and try to use this, because I'm now stuck with it, CompUSA won't take it back... [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 02 2005 @ 11:44 AM PST
iEatBrainz 1.06 (Mac OS X)
Great for popular US albums, SUCKS for rare international albums
I tried this and it failed to find anything on 98% of my library. It only caught the Megumi Hayashibara [林原めぐみ] albums I converted to AAC, and about 10% of the material was suggested to be from popular US albums (of which I haven't encoded any, yet, since I can tune to a dozen different radio stations at the moment, for better and more random "playlists."). On top of that, my 5,000 song library (of which only 2% of my CDs have been encoded, yet) cannot be imported into the Brainz system -- since there is no direct import feature for this software (and I keep getting told to go to freedb by the MusicBrainz website -- not very helpful). I spent thousands of hours typing the Kanji, German, Spanish, Cyrillic, and French titles in, and the service won't even take the information? (though wildly inaccurate, at least CDDB will display and take that info!) On top of that, the service doesn't even keep the original language available, but questionable translations into English? It should at least have fields for the original language on Titles and Artists. (Though this is not necessarily the service's fault, it is definitely a problem because I can't get my information in, and apparently not many other's who care about accuracy can). I'm still waiting for the service that will actually include the Catalog Number of the albums listed. This one piece of information will guarantee correct selection no matter what language the material is in, and will help prevent bootlegger compilation discs and home-mixes from appearing in the database. On a scale of 1-10, I'd give the software itself a 5 (it'd get a 7 if it had an upload function, and an 8 or 9 if it was faster). The service, for my own personal use gets a 2 (if I was just a rap mogul or a common rocker, it'd be higher, but my tastes run all over the musical world and styles, and this service currently sucks for that Overall, the service needs to be much better to make the software worthwhile, and additions have to be made available from the software. Also, a safe method of preserving old tags (in case of error) would be preferable to duplicating your entire library (especially since my backups are on DVD-Rs, because I don't have a TB of hard drive space). Some of this may seem snobbish, but if CDDB can do it, why can't MusicBrainz? [alert admin]
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Tuesday, December 14 2004 @ 09:11 AM PST
Readiris Pro 9.0 R12 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Crashes?!? I couldn't get it to start!
Yup, no obvious support from their site unless you have version 7 or lower... After installing, while actually entering the reg#, the program crashed out it's OSX partition (the window actually vanished after just a few keystrokes). ALL attempts to run the program, even after multiple uninstalls and installs, only led to a "font selection" dialog, with nothing in the pull-downs, and the only exit being a force-quit from the apple-menu. No response was ever received from my e-mail to customer service... and after checking here for possible fixes, I just got a refund. Guess I'll be trying TextBridge or OmniPage, even though they don't have Kanji support. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, October 26 2004 @ 10:37 AM PDT
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WMP is BETTER than QuickTime Player
Nothing wrong with it? Microsoft has made 3 new codec types that XP users are pretty much either forced or enticed into using on their side, since the las Mac update was made available. These are not available for playing on the mMac, even though somebody said it would. There is not a single WMV3 or WMV9 based file I have access to (and I have literally tried hundreds) That will play under this…
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Tuesday, January 10 2006 @ 10:58 AM PST
I don't know about that, but I tried the previous version which came out seriously after the WMV3 and WMV9 codecs, and it said it would handle all the WMP files. Not only does it NOT work with any WMV3 or WMV9 files, on about 50% of the files I threw at it, that did play (these are files that will not play in the Mac WMP), 50% of them almost immediately unsync'd with the audio,…
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Tuesday, January 10 2006 @ 10:48 AM PST
Unfortunately doing that, or using the console command that provides a similar service does not work very well for large listings. The Copy and Paste version does not keep things arranged as seen in the window (when I do this things come out in a completely random order -- hardly ever the same thing twice) and the console command does not keep things hierarchical. I would love it if there could be a way to…
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Wednesday, October 12 2005 @ 02:30 PM PDT
Crashes?!? I couldn't get it to start!
Yup, no obvious support from their site unless you have version 7 or lower... I purchased the retail package, in-store. After installing, while actually entering the reg#, the program crashed out it's OSX partition (the window actually vanished after just a few keystrokes). ALL attempts to run the program, even after multiple uninstalls and installs (and a severe cleaning out of files), launching only led to a "font selection" dialog, with "nothing" in the…
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Tuesday, October 26 2004 @ 10:22 AM PDT
