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I am suddenly quite pessimistic about Opera. Bath and Body Works refuses to let me in with it (and the response to my e-mail was that only .05% of the people that hit their front page do so with Opera), and Netflix has started complaining (although it works fine).
I'm a sentimental old biddy. Me and Opera -- we go way back. Don't want to break up.
$119.99 before $90 in mail-in rebates, $29.99 after, at Best Buy stores.
Is it time for my "mail-in rebates suck" rant? OK, I just leanred that companies generally contract out the fulfilment of rebate checks. These contracters sometimes promise that they will not refund more than a certain percentage of rebates that come to them. They do this by dragging their feet, or not sending rebates until the customer complains, or whatever.
Yeah, v. against the mail-in rebate--even if I remember to do it, I'll likely forget I was supposed to get the money back. So I highly distrust.
I've only had one been refused, so I have nothing against them. And even if I don't get the $30 back, it was the cheapest one in the store anyway.
I've probably collected about $300 in rebates since I started paying attention.
I have a question about editing MP3s. Beau wants to create MP3s from some CDs where the artists don't have clean breaks between songs. I.e. the songs flow between the song breaks and he needs to edit the mp3s so that the songs have clean breaks.
He does not want to do anything illegal, btw. He's making mixed CDs for his car.
Anyone recommend any good mp3 editing software? Free is preferable, but if he has to, he will pay for such.
ND recommended "audacity" to me, and it worked quite well for me--I was taking out bits in the middle of a song. (Edit: I think you can get it at audacity.com, but if you google, you should find it)
Yes, audacity is a good little freebie on OS X.
Are you on Mac or PC?
re: CD burners.
I have an external HP CD-Writer Plus. It worked beautifully once, but now it's refusing to write files. I'm using the DLA software that HP provides, on Win98SE. It goes through the Formatting step fine, but it won't copy files.
Would Nero would on this drive or is it proprietary?
It might work Connie.
You might see if there is a firmware update for the burnere, or a software update for the burning software.
audacity.sourceforge.net
I run it on all 3 OSes and it's good to me.