Ok this is irritating, I haven’t found a solution to the problem yet but here’s how to fix it afterwards.
So you’ve downloaded a mp3 using the browser, but it’s magically converted to mpga for you (thanks! turns out an mpga is just an mp3). MPGAs don’t work in RingDroid though so…
And hopefully you’re good to go 
Just a quick one, but wanted to share my experience of Ion Audio in the UK.
My first impression of Ion Audio was the Tape 2 PC deck I saw in Currys, and I thought looking at the price and possibly the design (I come from hifi so I’m a bit of a snob) that it was some disposable Chinese stuff.
I needed a way to convert my parents old tapes (or rather for them to convert) to a modern media. The system has to be simple, robust, not look terrible (the seperate will sit amongst some nice Marantz gear) and above all not sound bad. So far the Tape 2 PC has ticked all the boxes.
Anyway I installed it and the aux inputs on the back weren’t working. I tried wiring it ten different ways and read all the manuals twice, I’m good at problem solving, device clearly broken…
I rang Ion Audio Technical Support, and strangely it had a number with an area code, like a REAL telephone number. It rang for a little while, then a pleasant lady picked up, I wasn’t transported to a call centre, a real human, and at 5.45pm! The lady was very polite and helpful, and suggested a few ideas on what could be wrong. I tried it again just to be sure and the bloody thing worked perfectly. I have no idea how I got it wrong many many times or what was up, needless to say it now works fantastically and we’re all very happy.
Anyway I just wanted to try to give some karma to Ion Audio and their Tape 2 PC device, a UK company with real people (not call centre script regurgitators) on the end of their phoneline, how very refreshing. Next time I make a hifi purchase I’ll certainly check out their offerings.
Leave the first comment ▶Just a brief one, in case I do it again in the future.
I took my Uni-Trend UT101 meter apart to replace the 10A fuse. To do this you just remove three screws from the case and the board pops out. Stupidly I took it all apart before I realised I could get to the fuse, and the rotary selector fell apart along with the five contacts.
I contacted Uni-Trend, which despite being a Chinese company (and less likely to answer my English email I thought) very quickly forwarded my query and sent me the circuit diagram pdf, fantastic service and gave me more faith in Chinese products and their support!
Anyway I sat down and worked out the contacts needed to get the diode tester working. If you can’t see it in the picture then if 1 is the inside of the selector and 5 is the outside then
Left side of wheel – 5 and 3
Right side – 4, 2 and 1
Found a great image resizer like the one in XP
Image Resizer Powertoy Clone for Windows
Leave the first comment ▶I thought my scanner would need to be ditched, or more likely I’d have to install it on an old pc and run that. Thankfully this guy on youtube here figured it out. I should have thought of it really but here’s what I did…
If you found this post helpful and have a UK company you wish to advertise please check out the company I work for The National Pages, here’s an example of a listing for Car Finance in Reading.
3 comments so far, add yours ▶Had this error a lot, we only seemed to have a problem when we were committing images though, so I thought it was a problem with that.
Cleanup failed to process the following paths:
- \\ourServer\ourDirectory\
In directory ‘\\ourServer\ourDirectory\images’
Error processing command ‘committed’ in ‘\\ourServer\ourDirectory\images’
Can’t move ‘\\ourServer\ourDirectory\images\.svn\props\imageName.jpg.svn-work’
to
‘\\ourServer\ourDirectory\images\.svn\prop-base\imageName.jpg.svn-base’:
Access is denied
We run VisualSVN server on Win7, serving up a local (Win 7) repository. All our files are checked out using Tortoise to a samba share under Debian. After some googling it turns out that a particular version of samba causes this error. To solve it I did a few things
And things played nicely ever since!
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Leave the first comment ▶Started getting a “Multiple threat detection” warning from AVG Antivirus today. I guess something updated with AVG and now it finds spotify a problem. I trust spotify so I’m going to add it to my list of AVG exceptions. This is how you do it
Now AVG won’t be look at spotify.exe any more.
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2 comments so far, add yours ▶I just moved from Thunderbird 2 to 3, using the excellent mozbackup tool to backup/restore (I was also changing machine as well).
Lightning only works in beta with Thunderbird 3, and Google Provider fails. I followed various guides, but none worked, until I used the en_US version of things from
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/releases/1.0b1rc1/win32/en-US/
Just grab the two .xpi files and add them to your Thunderbird 3 addons.
Leave the first comment ▶The British English dictionary for Thunderbird 3 wasn’t working, I’ve hacked it about a bit so it’s now version 3.0.* compatible, you can download the .xpi from me here at
http://russtaylor.co.uk/files/british_english_dictionary-1.19-fx+zm+tb-version-3-compatible.xpi
The original file can be found at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3366
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