Re: What are these system files ?
- From: "Pete" <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:38:36 -0500
Poprivet wrote:
Pete wrote:
Hi everyone,
Please excuse me if this is slightly off topic, but it does relate to
system files, and I am afraid to delete them (since Windows puts the
warning up). I am running xpsp2.
I have recently been trying to download some mp3 music files, and it
seems that something is adding strange files to the "My Music" folder
where I download them to (they are dated yesterday, when I was doing
the downloading). They are little pictures when you click them on.
Makes no sense to me at all. An example is
"AlbumArt_{E50EF3A8-4000-4519.......}. They are all "AlbumArt" files.
I figure it must be some of the sites I am going to, looking for free
downloads - its not easy finding them as you may know.
There are also a few of these in the subfolder "Sample Music" which
are dated 2/9/06, and I have no idea what they are either, or how
they got there.
I tried to delete them, but Windows gives me the warning that they
are system files, and my computer might not work right if I delete
them, etc. Can you tell me what these files are, and is it safe to
delete them. I would think it would be safe to delete them, but I
am afraid to without knowing for sure.
Thanks...Pete
PS - As an aside does anyone know a good site to download free
"oldies" from the 60's, 70's, 80's. It seems very difficult at best
(all you get is garbage ads, and most are not free, and if you can
find a free one, they want a "legitimate" e-mail address, and you
would get junk mail the rest of your life). Please let me know of
any good sites if it's not too much trouble. Thanks again.
It's easy to get garbage from a lot of the supposed freebie music web
sites but I think there is a use for the files you mention; just not
sure what it is at the moment. Maybe a later version of WMP; I
stayed at 10 because 11 didn't seem to want to work right the time i
tried it.
Anyway, there are lots of oldies music around on the internet radio
stations these days; I use them a lot. To record them, I downloaded
a copy of Audacity, which has a "what u hear" feature; if you can
hear it, you can record it. It's free, and comes from
SourceForge.net if you're interested. A very nice program, and free.
As for all the copyright blather, they're mostly right, but if all
you're doing is listening to the songs yourself, no worry. It's when
you try to distribute anything in any way that you might get in
trouble, which doesn't sound like your intent.
You can also usually pull any songs you've listened to from the
temporary internet files, but ... that's a pain. That's why I dl'd
Audacity. I'm sure my comment will raise some additional comments
and probably gather some more blather, but that's what we call freedom of
speech -
no problem.
HTH
Pop`
Thanks Pop (and to Phil, Rinaldo and Dave for all of your comments also),
Sorry I am a couple days late on this response. I mentioned in a follow
post in this thread that the "albumart" files do have a use, and that the
little pics (along with other neat data - artists, composer, etc), show up
in WMP 11, which I just upgraded to. It's kind of neat. I like WMP 11,
except for one little glitch I've found - it doesn't highlight or mark the
station your listening to while streaming - once you collapse it, or click
back to the library, the little highlight marking is gone, and you don't
know what station your listening to because the "titles" on the list don't
necessarily match the now playing title (and you can not retitle all
stations - only some - wierd stuff). WMP 10 always showed the current
station highligted in green on a list off to the right. Oh well, other than
that, I like WMP 11.
I am new at this, and I am certainly not trying to steal anything, or do
anything illegal. I am just trying to listen to some music for my own
pleasure, and have no intention of copying it and redistributing it, and I
don't see how anyone could prove that anyone of the six billion people in
the world were redistributing a single copy of a disc to someone else anyway
(that would be ludicrous).
I understand that the details of patents, copyrights and trademarks are all
separate legal nightmares, da da da da. I think Phil may be a little too
strong on this, and perhaps treating it a little too simply (eg, I believe
that there are all kinds of exceptions, such as the expired copyrights that
"Pop" mentioned, or other special permissions, or conditions). If there
weren't, I don't see how the persons running the web sites can get away with
it, without getting prosecuted (like I said). They certainly don't give out
whole albums, and only one song at a time - at least to my knowledge - but I
am new at this like I said.
I listen to the oldies by streaming all the time. I will try the Audacity
(sounds neat - I didn't know you could record streamed music - you can't in
WMP). I hope it is not too complicated (ie I hope it is user friendly). To
this day, I have never been able to figure out the idiosyncracies of "sonic
record" on my xp, or "adaptac" which I had on my previous millenium - lol .
Thanks again to you all...Pete
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