Sigh. YouTube playlists are once again funked up. The pop-ups appear in the embedded player, but the videos are all — every one of them — listed as not being available. All that money, and all those technical resources, yet they can’t get it right! YouTube is only a convenience for me, and only if it works.
P.S. OK, a day later they *seem* to be working again.
I go past the Bose headquarters every day on my way to/from work, and a neighbor friend works at Bose. The Wave Music System is known for having more than its share of problems, but I bought one anyway, because it fit perfectly on the porch, and I could get it at a good price through our neighbor — not a factory renewed unit, but factory fresh.
Well, after only six weeks of light use, this is what happens when you try to play a CD. Eric demonstrates. Listen for a different neighbor’s cute, little attack doggies in the background.
[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/2008/JUL/BoseWave.flv 440 330]
At least the slot loader mechanism works, so the disc isn’t stuck in there. I should be able to get a new replacement Bose Wave without a hassle. This has been a bad summer for product defects.
I seem to be having my first problem with FiOS Internet access. I’d better enter this quick, before the network light turns red again.
Follow-up: this turned out to be nothing.
It’s very annoying when a Windows application gets weird and you try to uninstall it, either to get rid of it or to try installing again, and things don’t go very well. You can end up with the program sitting in the Add/Remove Programs list, but you can’t get rid of it. Click the link to read about the Windows Installer CleanUp.
For single videos that I don’t capture and master myself, I download from YouTube and post them. Putting playlists into custom players was the one feature YouTube offered that I found useful. But now YouTube’s playlists are blown. Gone. Snafu. Broken.
7/31 Flash! As in Flash player. Playlists seem to be working again. I’ve only checked a couple of them, but at the moment, for now, YouTube has redeemed itself.
The air conditioner has been replaced, it works great, and I paid what I expected, a little over $1400, including the initial diagnosis; i.e., the cost of replacing the compressor. So that’s that. Time to move on to whatever coming’s next.
