Given that you have a list handy, you might try posting in music and/or LJ in case anyone can help you out?

I feel the no-back up pain meara. Ugh.

Speaking of which, I have a question about a media player I lost when my last computer died in February.

Actually, not specifically about that one, because I can't remember the name.

The issue is, I a****edquired, shall we say, some avi files this evening. They play in quicktime but have no sound.

Would another player possibly work...and which one is best? Or did I spend all that time a***ming the wrong files!!

eta: for reference, I acquired the files using vuze.

VLC. [link]

If it can't play it, it's probably a bad file.

Well, when I went through the list and parsed it all out, after figuring out what they didn't give me and what I already had and everything, it ended up only being four songs (because most of what they didn't give me was stuff I actually had backup for). So I figure four songs isn't worth tracking down, I'll pay that as a stupidity penalty for not backing up sooner. :)

But I have a brand new backup hard drive, which I will be using in just a few moments, I swear...

Thanks Gris. Downloading it now.

eta: YAY. blackpool!

Bonny, that sounds like a codec issue rather than a player issue -- that's a little bit of software, not a player in itself but more like a plugin for whatever player you use, that tells the computer how to decode the files. Until you get the right one, it won't matter what player you're using.

I'd bet a small but significant number of kittens that 3ivx will work for you -- it plays a bunch of different file types that don't play on macs out of the box, including most of the ones that are commonly used in the ahemosphere. (And in other places like vids.)

Gris's answer also works, and takes lots less typing!

Another approach would be to get the CDs out of the library and rip them. If I'd already paid for the music, I'd have no qualms about doing that.

Yeah, if it had come to that, I would have done that too, I suppose. Mostly though I use iTunes for one song here and there, not whole albums, so that would be very time-consuming!

As it turned out, it ended up only being four songs, so I gave in and re-bought them (they were all ones I'd bought fairly recently, too, oddly--so ones I want to hear NOW, not willing to wait for the library to get them to me!). But I am re-backed up. Whew. And re-downloaded to iPod. Though now I have to figure out how to make some new playlists, since it thinks I bought them all on the same day, so I can't sort them by when I bought them, which is what I used to do...

...see me sitting at home on a Saturday night, fiddling with silly things like playlists and organizing my bookmarks and trying to figure out what bookmarks I've lost (everything I'd bookmarked since moving to a new city, eep!), rather than going out dancing! So ridiculous.

I keep all my impt book marks in del.icio.us

If you haven't used it -- it lets you book mark sites and tag them so you can get to them from any computer. it has some social networking stuff -( see what other people that have tagged things with 'perkygoth" like )

and why do I use it? because I've lost my bookmarks too many times