Monday, May 08, 2006

Mp3s Should Not Skip.



??

I am highly confused by this. I know when a record skips it is due to a physical deformity that causes the needle to literally 'skip' about on the surface of the record. Mp3s, however, are digital. They are not physical objects. And it sure as hell isn't my hard drive skipping, because if that was the case you would be able to find me sitting on the window ledge of the sixth floor of the science tower, pantsless and crying, clutching my dead computer to my chest, all in an elaborate attempt for the fire department to set up the big blow up bag for me to jump into. Then get promptly arrested. And, hopefully in the process, a police negotiator like Eddie Murphy or Mel Gibson would try to talk me down, with hilarious results.

Anyway, how the hell is this mp3 skipping? I am watching it happen at this very moment. Is the little robot DJ that lives in my computer drunk? That does not make any more sense. I think this might be the first step of skynet as it tries to take over humanity:

Step 1: Mildly annoy users by tricking them into thinking their Mp3s are skipping.
Step 2: Forward all internet requests to download episodes of Lost. (Hey, skynet has to make money through corporate sponsorship too.(
Step 3: Destroy and enslave humanity.
Step 4: Go to Disneyland.
Step 5: Get frustrated at long lines at Disney Land.
Step 6: Destroy Disney Land.

There you have it folks! Anyday now..

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dude is this the mini?

Cause that was a notorious problem with them.

See there's thin shoddily fused wire between the two assemblies, that is the click wheel and the top. And what would happen constantly is that this wire would break slightly. And thus u'd get mad skipping.

Happened with my first mini.

Read about it online. I swear its a real problem.