Re: spyware openmg jukebox

Toby|Wintrmute <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.netmd.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Worse, I had something corrupt my windows setup, and had to re-install -- but
kept my program files directory.
After re-installing OpenMG Jukebox, it wouldn't work at all, saying I had to
run the verifier program while connected to the internet - but I don't have
any internet connectivity from the windows install on my lappie!
Was very annoying, but eventually figured out that deleteing some stuff in the
common files directory would do the trick, as well as deleteing and
reinstalling omg jukebox again.

Needless to say, there was a short period with a lot of bad karma being
broadcast towards Sony, during the time when I couldn't download anything new
to the NetMD!

Reasons like *that* are why I want a decent Linux version!

-Toby

PS. Does anyone actually use my Perl module? Just kinda curious..


On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 02:03:16PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today something weired hapened to me.  I had trouble recording songs, so I
> frobbed the registry settings and reinstalled the openmg jukebox software.
> After that, openmg jukebox refused to import songs (it would convert them
> and then error out), saying that the configuration settings were changed,
> and that to correct this error I had to run the configuration setting
> reconstructor (it was a different name, which I forgot, but something
> similar).  This beast was a wizard that did an internet connection to
> "verify" something (possibly that I wasn't trying to crack anything, or so). 
> After that, it looked again at the converted file and imported it.
> 
> Now, I didn't have a tcp/ip logger installed at that time, so I didn't get
> to see what site it connected and which information was exchanged.  Maybe
> someone else can reproduce this, and get more information.  Exploring this
> could result into a nice document that could be used for a PR campaign
> against this software.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marcus
> 
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