Can’t remember the policy on naming brand names of things, so I’ll just say that I have a personal reading device made by a major bookseller, the name of which device rhymes with “bindle.” (Or, for those of you who weren’t adults in the 80’s, err … “swindle?” That’s all I got.)
It is also my mp3 player at the moment. Recently it has been skipping a lot, getting worse and worse. This is jarring, and it really, really bugs me.
Okay, so I removed the songs and put in fresh copies. Didn’t help. So I removed a lot of deadweight and the songs again; then defragged and optimized the device. Didn’t help. So then I ran scandisk on it with both options. (repairing bad sectors etc.) Didn’t help. Did every other thing within my geekly powers. Didn’t help.
Then I found out that I had recently bought a book on this device and had not noticed that the balance on the prepaid credit card I use for such things had gotten a little lower than I thought. Meaning that I owed them money.
I took care of it today, and guess what? My music doesn’t skip anymore. I have to admire their creativity — but also, that kind of sucks!
I’m thinking this is another instance of correlation not equaling causation. I can’t imagine how a file already downloaded on to your device would be impacted by the payment of a past due bill.
Also, there’ve been scores and scores of threads here on the Kindle, so yes, it’s okay to mention and discuss specific brands by name.
Well, I would agree with you under other circumstances. But I didn’t mention a few things:
(largely because I got acrylic nails for the 1st time in my life to celebrate my birthday last week, and I got 'em too long. It is impossible to hunt and peck with groovy red vampire nails. So I gotta use a pencil, dammit! Takes forever.)
Right around the time I noticed the skipping, my kindle suddenly started doing that annoying thing where it shifts your view 90 degrees if you list to portside ever so slightly. But wait! I had fixed that setting, courtesy of some friendly Dopers who told me how. It was set. And I am very careful about randomly pressing buttons when holding the kindle.
Later that day, I went to turn on the wireless connection to do something, I forget what, and the menu item said, “Turn wireless OFF.” Oh, no no no. I never, ever leave the wireless on. I am really obsessive about that. It drains the battery.
It’s a simple thing to turn on a wireless connection remotely. And then run a code that disrupts my listening pleasure. If not, then it’s a devilishly weird coincidence.:dubious:
