{"id":17050,"date":"2011-02-18T06:28:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T11:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/17050\/gates-money\/"},"modified":"2011-02-18T06:28:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T11:28:38","slug":"gates-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/17050\/gates-money\/","title":{"rendered":"as if Gates needs the money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium;color: #000000\">when it comes to computers I&#8217;m fairly ignorant&#8230;but this blog is about a computer dilemma of sorts&#8230;somewhere, on the hard drive of a CPU I no longer own is MY iTunes library&#8230;this library is also in my iPod&#8211;I think, it needs to be charged up&#8230;I&#8217;ve let it die before and charged it up; didn&#8217;t lose anything as far as I can tell&#8230;The iTunes library on this computer is mostly the &#8220;roomie&#8217;s&#8221; but I think I can suck the music out of my iPod and add it to HER library, and then re-load my iPod&#8230;here&#8217;s the rub&#8230;the roomie borrowed a Beatles\u00a0 CD of mine and uploaded a song or two or three into her library, just like I uploaded a bunch (from CDs) into MY library&#8230;on this computer, iTunes is the default player (I think)&#8230;Yesterday I went to listen to a Beatles tune, and my request was denied, as if iTunes said &#8220;Wait a minute, you didn&#8217;t PAY US for PAPERBACK WRITER&#8230;&#8221; I suspect I might lose nearly three dozen songs when\/if I merge my library with hers or even if\/when I build a new one to call my own&#8230;I suspect the computer can recognize an mp3 I uploaded from one I buy from Bill Gates, if there is a difference&#8230;but the idea that I might theoretically have to pay to own a copy of something I long ago got for free kinda sucks&#8230;I KNOW there are people out there with REAL problems, but this kinda bugs me nonetheless&#8230;not to mention that because the cassette player in my car is kaputski, I can&#8217;t listen to my iPod safely while traveling&#8211;and that really sucks; how often do the Shaggs get played on ANY kinda of radio (commercial or satellite) right ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium;color: #000000\">but otherwise, other than technologically and financially, Life is Good&#8230;for which I am grateful&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when it comes to computers I&#8217;m fairly ignorant&#8230;but this blog is about a computer dilemma of sorts&#8230;somewhere, on the hard drive of a CPU I no longer own is MY iTunes library&#8230;this library is also in my iPod&#8211;I think, it needs to be charged up&#8230;I&#8217;ve let it die before and charged it up; didn&#8217;t lose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}