Wherein I say mean things about Yahoo (profane).

Dear Yahoo.

I have a small complaint I wish to make against your company, bastion of internet innovation that it is. I recently tried to download software in order to use Yahoo music. I ran it. Everything seemed to be going smoothly. Then, disaster struck. The program crashed, and, for some unaccountable reason which almost certainly has everything to do with you, each and every single music file I’ve downloaded over the past eighteen months has been rendered completely unplayable, transformed into so much junk coding in the blink of an eye.

Now, let’s not mince words. I fucking hate you fucking people more than vampires hate carpentry, Osama Bin Laden hates wet T-shirt contests, and Baby Jesus hates you when you masturbate. You technically inept, grossly incompetent, imbecilic, cretinous, gormless, wastes of fucking bone and sinew, I want to hunt each and every one of you maggoty little cock suckers down, rip off your heads and extract your fucking souls. From the lowliest code monkey to the fattest, sweatiest, most lecherous of your CEO’s, I want to make lampshades out of your fucking skin. I want to shit on your defiled corpses and burn them. I want all this even more than I want my fucking music back.

Your company name is an internet byword for clumsiness and idiocy. From your shitty, shitty web browser which doesn’t even allow you to open new windows, to your diabolical e-mail service wherein every account seemingly acts as some kind of digital magnet for every Trojan, 419 fraudster, and double-ended suck-fuck porn spammer in cyberspace, your lack of appreciation for such trivialities as usability, convenience, or safety is plain for all to see.

I write this e-mail, not for the purpose of venting my ample spleen, nor even for the purpose of gaining recompense *(the slightest hope for the latter being laughable in the face of a company which evidently hires acephalic fetal halfbirths to code and maintain their products and surely wouldn’t go so far as to pay for actual sentient life forms to provide customer care.) * I write in the hope you heartless dumb fucks print this out, hold it aloft at your next latex-fetish tea party (or board meeting, whatever) as an example of the kind of customer service whichever demon you sold your souls to demands, and get so pumped up on your own sadism that you finally get around to changing the Yahoo logo design from a load of big, friendly bubble writing, to a guy getting fucked up the ass, mercilessly, and forever. If you want, I’ll even send you a picture so you can animate a suitably helpless looking ‘bitch’ in my image. At that point, bereft of your user-friendly corporate countenance, enough consumers will boycott your services long enough and hard enough to send you tumbling all the way down to the Moss Side, Manchester, where you can spend your days panhandling for loose change or taking gelatinous loads on the chin from shady Asiatic businessmen and junked up smack dealers tricks like every other two bit conman and whore in this country.

You people are wastes of good oxygen that could have been put to better use fuelling a Christmas fire at an orphanage, or perhaps transporting plague. Karmic justice could only be fulfilled by your being burned at a stake with your own filthy money used as kindling, and your ashes shot into space so as not to befoul the ecosystem.

Regards,

George Kaplin.

::golf clap::

Really? Vampires hate carpentry?

Who knew?

This was good, this managed to bring me to a chuckly kind of giggle:

The rest I’d give a 8.5. Nice pacing, a bit gratuitous at times, but clear, concise and to the point.

Bravo.

Could it be that the files are now associated with the yahoo player? Could you go in and change them to be played with something else?

I. . . I think I love you.

I thought about that and, unfortunately, not only can I not find any trace of the Yahoo player (and, in fact, I’m not even 100% sure that the Yahoo music program included a player. It’s certainly feasible that it was just a downloading interface and that files downloaded using it are saved in a format compatible with, say, Realplayer or Windows Media) but now I can’t even find any of my songs. I’m sure they’re there somewhere but Yahoo has just totally fucked up my music library. In the immortal words of William Shakespeare “I am so fucking pissed off right now I’m one good fart away from a nosebleed” [sub]Troilus & Cressida, act 2, scene 1.[/sub]

No offense or anything, but are you sure you even know how to use your computer? First you say that your files are completely unplayable, and now you say that they are missing entirely. Which is it? And how can they be there “somewhere,” but you can’t figure out where? Are you unfamiliar with the concept of searching your hard drive for a particular file? Is there something I’m missing here?

Actually, I’ve found Yahoo Mail’s spam filters to be pretty decent. I get well over 100 spams that go straight to the bulk mail folder for every one that gets through, and in about five years of use, I’ve never gotten a virus or Trojan from my Yahoo account.

All disagreements aside, though, I will say that you can conjure one hell of a vitriolic rant. :smiley:

None taken. I was vague in my OP because I was still a little shocked that all my beloved music had somehow been rendered useless. I’ll give you the quick lowdown on what actually happened in case you can help me out.

I use Napster to play my music files because Napster is my primary download program.

I tried downloading Yahoo Music because I wanted a Chris Rock album that apparently hadn’t been licensed to Napster. I tried to install it and it crashed about 90% of the way through the installation. “No biggie” I thought “I’ve still got my lovely Napster”.

So I opened Napster up and tried to play some tunes but it kept coming up with an error message saying “Error. Napster cannot locate your files”. I tried and tried and tried some more but to no avail. “Grrrr.” I growled vengefully “Yahoo! You’ll pay for this!”

Then I thought “George, you dumbass! Just use another friggin’ media player” so I opened up Windows media player and tried playing one of my old playlists. Still nothing.

So I went and wrote the above rant because I was convinced that Yahoo had buggered up my music files so they wouldn’t play on Napster (which is a real pain in the arse because I had some great playlists on Napster) or WMP. It didn’t occur to me that the files could possibly be gone. Then I tried searching my hard drive for individual tunes to see if re-importing them into Napster/WMP would solve the problem (even though I knew it wouldn’t, I was getting desperate) and I found…nothing. Nil. Nada. Zip.

Not. A. Sausage.

And now I’m just befuddled.

So don’t hold back, tell us how your really feel about Yahoo.

Do you have Restore or GoBack or any of the utilities that allow you to reset to a known safe point? GoBack has saved my sanity more than once.

Copernicus can find things on your hard drive that regular search functions cannot. I had a pleasant surprise recently with my lost bookmarks.

Comedy gold right there, ladies and gentlemen.

Sorry about your files.

Referring to the stakes potentially aimed at their hearts? Otherwise, I don’t get it either.

But the rant was good!

You da-mn right!

Still can’t find any of my files, btw :frowning:

Sorry to hear about your files, but I do like Yahoo’s email. It ain’t perfect, but it’s free, reliable, and filters 99% of spam.

That is what I was thinking as well. I am no computer expert by any stretch–but I have used Restore which is a standard feature on my computer to just restore my computer to say 2 days ago and everything was just like before.

Under Accessories on my computer is a Systems Tool folder that has System Restore on it.

seems it is worth a try at least!