Morpheus...

[Turboneger]

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I sent this mail to the Morpheus staff idiots today. Posting it around so people won't do the same mistake I did.

 

 

 

Hi. I have a major flaw to point out in your Morpheus program. Allow me to share a story with you, for the sake of understanding fully the extent of the flaw.

 

I was down at my uncles place to heal his comp of the slow-motion sickness that had for some reason unknown to my uncle ridden it the last couple of weeks. I sift through his harddrive, emptying temp folders and deleting unneccesary programs. He says that he's found a better MP3-program, so I delete Winamp too and install the new one - Windows Media Player. So, I tell the program to start scanning the hd for mp3 files, and what do you know, it finds curiously few MP3s. This makes me raise an eyebrow, since the program found only 100 of something around 500 MP3s I knew he had. So, I go Program Files and look for the Morpheus folder, under which I presumed his Downloaded files folder would be. I frown when I realise that there were, in fact, no Morpheus folder under Program Files. I go to the desktop and try to access Morpheus from there. No luck. I try to access his Downloaded Files folder. No luck. My hands start twitching nervously, and I see intellectually (but refuse to accept) a catastrophe sailing up in the horizon. I search for his downloaded files futively, when I get the idea to check the shortcut for the location.

 

Let me tell you a bit about Winamp. It is, despite its popularity, a rather simple program. This includes, of course, the uninstallation procedure. When you uninstall it, it clears the registry and empties its folder with great abandon - that is, deletes everything in it except a log file.

 

Shortcut:

 

"C:Program FilesWinampMy Shared Folder"

 

I was absolutely furious. I mean... there is no reason on Earth, Heaven or Hell or any plane that I can think of that you should check the Winamp folder to do anything with your MP3 fies, much less assume deleting Winamp will affect Morpheus and your entire MP3 collection. And no warning whatsoever aside "Do you really want to uninstall Winamp?" "Ok", I am able to totally annihilate my uncles archives. Of course it was right of me to presume My Shared Folder was under Program FilesMorpheus, I agree that I should have checked, but one simply does not having used computers for so long, since you presume that such moronic programming does not happen. There is no reason that I can even percieve the outlines of to put My Shared Folder under Winamp. Every single program of the same type I have used have the download root under its own folder. And no wonder! No one would think to look elsewhere, since it is the logical place, the ONLY LOGICAL PLACE, maybe (maybe!) excepting the desktop or My Documents to have it. Why, then, in the name of all that is holy, do you have it integrated with

Winamp to this obviously far too large extent? What were you THINKING? Of course, the one reading this probably has nothing to do at all with the programming, but still, someone have to get the blame and it sure as all hell should not be me! And why is Morpheus deleted upon deleted Winamp? That, too, is obviously totally ridicilous.

 

Coldest regards,

Ole Larsen

[kilogram]

Kjære Turboneger,

 

dette her var da svært dumt. At du har latt være å sjekka kvar Morpheus er lagt inn, kan du ikkje klandra på andre enn deg sjølv. 90% av alle avinstallasjonsprogram i dag sletter alt innhaldet i mappa til programmet dei skal avinstallera, ellers risikerer ein ofte at det ligg att filer som programmet har laga.

 

Det at folk legger program som Morpheus og WinAMP i samme mappe er rein og skjær idioti! Å beholde Morpheus sin delte filer mappe i ein underkatalog av Morpheus, skapar og berre rot. Du kan ikkje klaga til MusicCity på dette "problemet"!