Tag Archives: mp3

Media Monkey Rocks

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Media Monkey Screenshot

Media Monkey Screenshot

No, really, it does. Like a hurricane even. I found this nifty media player and manager while looking for something to replace iTunes. WinAmp used to be a cool product, but recent versions leave me flat. I tried others and ended up choosing Media Monkey after I found it. Not only is it an awesome media manager, but it can sync to your iPod as well. I couldn’t get rid of iTunes altogether because I get books from Audible, and the DRM is tied to iTunes, but I still like Media Monkey for everything else. I liked it enough that I bought the gold version, it’s a great tool. Check out their website at http://www.mediamonkey.com/ and give it a test drive.  I bet you will dig it as much as I do!

Installing World Of Warcraft On Vista

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Having trouble installing WoW (Word of Warcraft) on your Windows Vista box? Well, I was. Recently I wanted to go back and give WoW a try once again, and by now I have a new machine from Alienware running Windows Vista. I popped the original first CD in and low and behold … I got an error, it wouldn’t run the executable. I got an error number 132 and something about a bootstrap problem.

I thought this might just be a problem with the older installer and Vista, since I got these disks years ago, so I downloaded the latest installer from Blizzard’s website. So, 3.5 GB later I try to install from the download and it doesn’t work either. Different error, this time Vista just popped up a box saying that the installer wasn’t working. Support at Blizzard was no help, in their opinion I had bad memory but I didn’t think that was the case since every other game I have runs great. After some log searching and Google-ing, I hit upon something that clicked for me. It seems the installer was failing because of a problem with the LAME MP3 codec. Aha!

The answer was there in front of me. I took a shot, downloaded and installed the LAME MP3 codec and tried again. Lookout, now the installer worked! I didn’t go back and try the old CD’s, but the installer that I downloaded worked great.

So, if you are having trouble installing WoW on your Vista box, and especially if you get any kind of LAME MP3 errors, go and download the codecs here (http://www.freecodecs.net/files/lameACM-3.97-final.zip) and see if that helps.