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Annoyances from a Sunday at Work
Jan. 23rd, 2005 05:48 pmToday I had simple goals: Move 260 .WAV files from one PC to one Mac that are, oh, fifteen feet apart, and convert them into .SE16 format (that's SoundEdit 16, for those of you who don't spend your lives working with outdated Macintosh audio software). It took several hours. Complaints:
1) SoundEdit 16 (version 2, for Mac) is buggy as hell and won't recognize .WAV files unless it created them. Avoid this terrible piece of software at all costs.
2) The web space at UW not only has a space limit, but a *bandwidth* limit - you can only transfer 200 MB per hour. This is insufficient. This is why I wish my lab had a web server.
3) Why the bloody hell doesn't UW convert to a network system that allows file transfer between Macs and Windows machines? Case had one that was invisible; we don't have one *at all*. This is really stupid, since Mac/PC loyalty is sharply divided in this department. Ugh.
4) The experiment design program I use is free, which is nice, but has a lot of irritating features, the requirement to use SoundEdit being merely one of them, and I have spent a good hour painstakingly setting it up properly.
Oh well, at least I got to have a nice chat over AIM while working. Now, finally time to go grab the next disc of Buffy and go home.
1) SoundEdit 16 (version 2, for Mac) is buggy as hell and won't recognize .WAV files unless it created them. Avoid this terrible piece of software at all costs.
2) The web space at UW not only has a space limit, but a *bandwidth* limit - you can only transfer 200 MB per hour. This is insufficient. This is why I wish my lab had a web server.
3) Why the bloody hell doesn't UW convert to a network system that allows file transfer between Macs and Windows machines? Case had one that was invisible; we don't have one *at all*. This is really stupid, since Mac/PC loyalty is sharply divided in this department. Ugh.
4) The experiment design program I use is free, which is nice, but has a lot of irritating features, the requirement to use SoundEdit being merely one of them, and I have spent a good hour painstakingly setting it up properly.
Oh well, at least I got to have a nice chat over AIM while working. Now, finally time to go grab the next disc of Buffy and go home.
