I haven’t been listening to many Podcasts. Mostly, I listen to science and technology Podcasts. Some of them are very professionally recorded, some very amateurish of the top of there heads without scripts like, or down right geeky. The most annoying ones, professional caliber recorded or otherwise, are the ones with loud Techno or Heavy Metal intro music with some for up to 20 seconds worth. Most of these intro music are recorded louder than the follow voice. I can’t understand why on earth anyone would want to record or hear such annoying music before an intellectual Podcast such as the ones in the Science and Technology categories. It makes it very difficult to concentrate between Podcasts if a list of them are played continuously.
Archive for September 14th, 2005
Update (15 Sep 03:23pm) : iTune switched back to Chinese this afternoon for no reason at all after running fine all morning. I had to go into the iTune directory and copy away all the useless language directories leaving just the English directory for iTune 5 to work and hopefully stay working in English for good this time. Unfortunately, the same workaround method proven to be useless for QT7 though.
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Update (04:13pm) : While this method works with iTune, there is still a problem with QuickTime7. Since Apple have integrated iTune and QT7 installations into one single installation, no matter you download the iTune or QT7 for WindO$, you’d get both in one installation file. I have tried removing all of iTune as well as QT, rebooted the PC, made sure I had the area units in Control Panel selected with English (US), and then reinstalling both from scratch. iTune came out as English, QT7 came out as Chinese! I have heard my cousin saying that there were some suggestions for the iTune installation to have all the other language files removed to a new sub-directory leaving just the English language file in the iTune directory would also work. This method, however, would seem to work for iTune only since the QT directory is a mess with all the language sub-directories scattered all over many sub-directories within the QT directory. Doing so would take some time and patience, both of which I am lack of.
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I have been upgrading several versions of iTune 4.x and just now tried to upgrade to iTune 5 on my PC. I have Chinese WindO$ XP Pro and installing English versions of iTune 4.x have never been a problem showing English menu in iTune. I have selected English as my preferred language at the beginning of the iTune installation, yet iTune still turned out to be in Chinese.
After several re-installations, I finally have to change the preferred unit settings in the area and language setup of WindO$’ Control Panel into English(US) and re-installed iTune before it gave me the English version of iTune. This has never been necessary for previous versions of iTune.
WhaUSay?!