Creative’s Software

Creative’s software is so awful. This is some of the most frustrating and convoluted multimedia software that I’ve used. Simply put, I hate it.

• it doesn’t save your settings between reboots. after every reboot I have to load the EAX console and set my CMSS 3D settings and speaker balance
• Folders can not be dragged into the play list
• … and therefore if you have a lot of files to play you’ll have to browse to a folder, select all files, drag, browse to another folder, select all files, drag, browse to another folder, select…
• the interface is absolutely horrible. Someone at Creative needs smacked specifically for this travisty of a UI
• the play list window does not stick to the player’s body after it’s been mimized. you have to move the play list window around to reattach it, but what’s the point? it’ll just undock next time anyway
• you’re locked into creative’s software if you want to play music, including MP3s, at the highest audio quality that your hardware supports. nevermind the fact that you paid over $200 for the hardware and its features. choice: not your’s.
• there’s hardly any surface on the software that does not produce some sort of fricking menu when it’s clicked (or if it doesn’t produce a menu then it loads the Creative web site)
• and on, and on, and on…

Yet I’m stuck using it so that my music sounds decent.

/me stabs Creative with a spoon
die die die die die >.<

~Mysk, officially really annoyed

ICQ Fubared

EDIT: Solved

Oddly enough, I doubt that anyone that I know visits this blog of mine. It’s not that I keep it a secret, they simply can’t be arsed. heh heh.

On the off chance that one does, however, I can’t send messages via ICQ. I’m receiving messages and it appears to me that mine are sent. They’re not, however, and I have no idea why this is happening.

I will most likely have to reinstall Trillian. Which means that I don’t know who’s contact information I will lose.

Here’s to hoping that I don’t have to go through that annoyance.