THISISIT.....For anyone who has problems with computer technology I can assure you, you are not the only one. My 73 year old Dad had a record player that transfers records onto a USB stick to then put into his laptop to burn CD's. mmm I could help him to do this.
So far so good, record on the USB stick. Book updated with the records that are on USB 1 (I did suggest he have a book to show which USB had which records on, so far only have USB stick so have named it number 1) 6 albums in total on the stick.
1. Jerry Lee Lewis
2. Curtis Mayfield
3. Conway Twitty
4. Neil Sedaka
5. Roy Orbison
6. Billy Fury
No one said it was going to be modern music.
We plug in the USB, put in the CD, so far so good. Windows media player loads and we see the burn and Sync button, looking good, put the CD in, all going well.
Try to drag the music to burn, sync or put in the library and nothing happening, decided to use the help button. My Dad was sat there patient, pen poised for his instructions on how to do this. So within the help section we watched a video on how to do the burning. I then sync'd the music into the library, dragged it to be burned and to our amazement we had burned Jerry Lee Lewis. Remember this is my Dad's music..... Then he told me that the 11 minutes we had just burned was side 1 of the album and could we now do side 2.
Side 2 took just as long as I couldn't remember how we had just done this, so had to go back to the help of the video. How did I get the music to the computer library? This was just turning out to be so bad. How old am I? I really couldn't remember what I did last time. 30 minutes later, pen still poised by my Dad ready for the instructions, I figure out that I had to sync the music first, this somehow puts it into the library, yay. Then I can drag it to be burned. fantastic.
CD1 - Jerry Lee Lewis again side 1 and side 2 (Dad writes on with his special pen)
CD2 - Curtis Mayfield together with anothe album Conway Twitty. (special pen is used)
To my Dad's delight it was done, his book updated and with his CD pen he has written the artist on the CD. However, as we are both confused as to how we did this no instructions have been written down. God help us next time. My parents have over 100 albums and we have just managed to burn 2 of them in 2 hours!!!!!!
Final test of our 2 hour achievement, Dad plays the CD of Jerry Lee Lewis, I know this because it has JERRY LEE LEWIS on the CD and I saw him write it when we had burned it. To our horror, Curtis Mayfield is heard singing,..... NO this can't be right? he puts the other CD in with CURTIS MAYFIELD written on the CD and Curtis Mayfield is heard singing, something went wrong!!!! So if ever you want to burn CD's THIS IS IT.
Love it! This sounds like every interaction I have ever had with new technology!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I've been wanting to find someone with one of those USB record players- I have a lot of vinyl in the loft. Can I join the queue at your help desk?! Vic x