Emusic/Linux help needed
Tuesday, 5 January 2010 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taimatsuI am Quite Pissed Off.
I signed up for eMusic on a whim last night, knowing that Eve had used the site before and that they had some of the sleep/relaxation music I wanted. They claim to support Linux, and I knew that when Eve was first using the site she had been able to download MP3s without using any special software.
NO LONGER.
I can't find a way to DL plain MP3 files - I get their own speshul EMX files instead, which are a stupid XML thing pointing to the MP3 files, but not in a way where I can c&p the path and get the MP3 direct. So I installed their download manage, version 4.0 for Linux. It installs fine, and presents me with a cheery screen with an arrow to click saying 'GO TO EMUSIC' and I click it and absolutely nothing happens. Then I click it again, and nothing happens. Then I click it repeatedly and scream, and a message appears in the software's Error Console, which says: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsITreeView.getCellText]" nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://emusic/content/dlm_bindings.xml :: PlayCurrent :: line 24" data: no]. Which is not very helpful.
So I emailed their tech support contact address, and said 'This doesn't work, please tell me how to fix it,' and they wrote back and said 'er, Linux is scary. Here, our other subscribers might help, have a messageboard.' So I have written them a *very* unimpressed response telling them how unacceptable this is when I have paid for their flipping service and can't use the one file I've downloaded so far at all, and asking them to do *better*. (I mean, srsly, surely someone in their organisation either is the developer of the software or can contact the developer of the software? This is not rocket science, it's Javascript or something. Dude.) I have posted to the messageboard (which looks like it's from about 1998! Seriously! It's like StudentUK that I was using when I was 17!) but God knows if I will get any help, and I shouldn't have to rely on other subscribers to get *basic* help with a service I have *paid for*, for crying out loud.
I want to like eMusic, because they have interesting stuff on the site and it's all DRM-free, unlike iTunes and its ilk, but if I can't actually get the playable music I have paid for, it's all a bit pointless. Approach with caution.
And finally - does anyone out there have any tips on how to solve the problem above? I am stumped and would like to actually listen to the music I have attempted to download.
I signed up for eMusic on a whim last night, knowing that Eve had used the site before and that they had some of the sleep/relaxation music I wanted. They claim to support Linux, and I knew that when Eve was first using the site she had been able to download MP3s without using any special software.
NO LONGER.
I can't find a way to DL plain MP3 files - I get their own speshul EMX files instead, which are a stupid XML thing pointing to the MP3 files, but not in a way where I can c&p the path and get the MP3 direct. So I installed their download manage, version 4.0 for Linux. It installs fine, and presents me with a cheery screen with an arrow to click saying 'GO TO EMUSIC' and I click it and absolutely nothing happens. Then I click it again, and nothing happens. Then I click it repeatedly and scream, and a message appears in the software's Error Console, which says: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsITreeView.getCellText]" nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://emusic/content/dlm_bindings.xml :: PlayCurrent :: line 24" data: no]. Which is not very helpful.
So I emailed their tech support contact address, and said 'This doesn't work, please tell me how to fix it,' and they wrote back and said 'er, Linux is scary. Here, our other subscribers might help, have a messageboard.' So I have written them a *very* unimpressed response telling them how unacceptable this is when I have paid for their flipping service and can't use the one file I've downloaded so far at all, and asking them to do *better*. (I mean, srsly, surely someone in their organisation either is the developer of the software or can contact the developer of the software? This is not rocket science, it's Javascript or something. Dude.) I have posted to the messageboard (which looks like it's from about 1998! Seriously! It's like StudentUK that I was using when I was 17!) but God knows if I will get any help, and I shouldn't have to rely on other subscribers to get *basic* help with a service I have *paid for*, for crying out loud.
I want to like eMusic, because they have interesting stuff on the site and it's all DRM-free, unlike iTunes and its ilk, but if I can't actually get the playable music I have paid for, it's all a bit pointless. Approach with caution.
And finally - does anyone out there have any tips on how to solve the problem above? I am stumped and would like to actually listen to the music I have attempted to download.
