Bah. Just did a quick experiment to see how the iPod treates a video if it can't play video--I'd really have liked my Nano to treat it just like a song file, otherwise what's the point? I'm not going to buy the Fatboy Slim video, no matter how much I like it, if I can't listen to the song on my non-video devices. I'm just buying the song. I'm certainly not buying them both.

I don't have the media around to check--anyone know if you can burn it to an audio CD just as the song track?

I just tried burning videos to CD, and get a message saying "burning is disabled for this track" on each and every one. I don't know if there's a way around it.

Eta that might be because they were bought off of iTunes and not that they are videos.

I used some program that records whatever audio that happens to be playing as an mp3 file. I forget what it was called, as this was years ago on my now-dead iBook.

But I did use it to grab the audio from a Fatboy Slim video ("Weapon of Choice").

It was shareware, but if you didn't pay for it it would still let you record for ten or 20 minutes at a time.

Ah, bite me. I don't consider the song separate from the video. I consider the video add ons, but now they're taking away functionality from the song itself.

Well, that puts an end to my video buying. I'm peeved enough that working around it with shareware isn't worth it for me.

Thanks for the heads up, though, tommy, and the experimentation, -t.

I'm pretty sure VirtualDubMod would let you rip an audio track, but I don't know how it would handle stuff downloaded from iTunes.

I think the software you are referring to is Audio HiJack, it's a handy utility.

That name rings a bell.

Someone sent me a file of music that they created on a PC using sendspace.com. It looked like I was able to download the file okay to my Mac, but when I tried to open the downloaded file using stuffit expander, I got a message that the file didn't appear to be encoded or encrypted, so stuffit expander couldn't open it. It asked if I wanted to try BOMAarchive helper, but that didn't work either.

Any ideas on how to get the file open?

I can't get Excel to open any files I've created in the past week. Excel just thinks about it for a while and then crashes. I can open older files just fine and I've opened the recent files on another computer without a problem. While on the other computer, I saved the file under a different name but my computer still wouldn't open it. WTF?

Why the fuck did Google Images fancy up its results display?

Getting the old Google image search back: [link]