Week 29 - cardio day

[susandennis]

20 minutes on the treadmill and 10 on the bike BUT...  my plan for 30 minutes on the treadmill was thwarted by a technical idiocy.

I have no tolerance for 'I don't know no nuthin' 'bout computers'**...  And these days that's usually said in a forum or in email or on a blog which compounds the annoyance.  BUT...  I seriously need a 12 year old to come over and show me the right way to manipulate music on my computer and on my Zen.  I know from copying files and I can play music on my computer and on my Zen but I always seem to fuck it up.  I trip over playlists and burning and syncing and general organization.  I can drag and drop and that is not enough.

I spent a considerable amount of time building two really nice sets of music.  Both 30 minutes - graduating from about 120 beats per minute to 150 and back to 120.  And then I dropped 'em onto my Zen with full plans to give one of them a maiden 'run' today.

So I'm on the treadmill and I fire the sucker up and where in the hell are they????  No freakin' idea. 

I get home and plug the thing into the computer to see that they are there.  Both of them.  But no playlist. ARUGH.  Of course part of it is my old age eyes.  If I wore glasses I could read the teeny tiny screen.  My contact enables me to read most stuff just not teeny tiny stuff. 

Bitch moan bitch moan.  I am, this morning, the person I would be the first to make fun of.  I'm off now to wash this bitch right outta my hair!

**when used as an excuse for not doing something they want to do or should be able to do and/or are asking you to do instead cause they are lazy.

Comments

[susandennis]

Very cool! But I need the mixes he does up for his grandmother. The low energy stuff! Maybe I should send him an email request...

[mixter11nm.livejournal.com]

I had a Zen when I worked out too. I also had the same problem because I didn't want to carry my glasses around with me. I only use them for reading. Eventually, I stopped bringing my Zen to the gym. And then I just stopped going to the gym which completely eliminated the problem for me.

[susandennis]

ha! I'm all about different ways to skin a whatever but probably not ready for that solution quite yet.

[steve98052.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the problem could be fixed by pasting each music sets into a single, long piece. Then all the player would have to do right is play a single, long piece.

Extrapolating from the IPod, another possibility is that it wants a program to do the copying, and you're just copying it as data. Plugging an IPod into the computer makes it look like an external disk drive. But if I copy a bunch of music files, even in Apple's own format (mp4 with some custom tags), it's just data to the IPod. To make it music to the IPod, I have to copy it through Apple's own ITunes program. Does your player have its own custom music-manager program?

[susandennis]

I did actually figure out that joining them was the way to go. I figured that out from the books I ripped from CD. Joining them was the only way to manage them. So I did join up the music bits.

BUT you are right about the music-manager program. It does have one and I tried it originally and couldn't figure out what it was doing or wanted me to do so I dumped it in favor of drag and drop. Sounds like maybe I should go back and be a little more patient.