Hear before you buy

This has probably been asked before... I find the sample you hear inadequate. Is there a way to hear the entire song before you buy? If not, what other legal services do this?

Is there a way to hear the entire song before you buy?
No.
If not, what other legal services do this?
None I know of except for subscription services (i.e. you pay a monthly fee for access to all the tracks) or some independent sites that trust the users to pay.

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  • MacBook Pro....things you need to know before you buy!!!

    Helpful hints before you buy your MacBook Pro 15 or 17 inch:
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    2. New MacBook Pro with HD Cinema 30 inch. The two items are not compatible unless you purchase the $99 Dual (not single), I repeat Dual..."Mini Display Port to Dual-Link adapter:
    http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB571Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDA3Ng&mco=MTA4NDU1NDM
    The reason I am posting this is that I bought a MacBook Pro 15 inch on Monday and I specifically told the Apple people at the store what I had: 2 year old MacBook Pro and Cinema HD and what I would need and they sold me the mini single adapter. Nothing worked. Went to the store 3 times and no one could help me. Finally a guy from Australia, on this forum, was able to answer my call for help!!! I actually had to take his email into the store and show it to the Apple folk and they finally got me the correct adapter. Today is Friday, 4 days later and I am finally able to work on a project that has been on hold while I figured out something fairly simple...so much for these "Apple genius people." Just think the problems I would have had if I had an older Mac laptop or a PC laptop?!?@!

    Hi kleeks,
    Glad you got it sorted in the end!
    To be fair, most of the Genius bar people are very good and your experience was probably not typical, but it is also worth remembering that some of us here have been using Macs since before some of the Geniuses were even born, so we often know a thing or two that they may not have cottoned on to yet! When in doubt, a second opinion here can often be well worth obtaining.
    Really glad you have it running as it should now.
    Cheers
    Rod (the "guy from Australia")

  • Try before you buy?

    I'm not currently an ATT customer. The ATT website shows good coverage in my area. However, I want to be sure I'll get reception at home and work. Is it possible to purchase an iPhone and ATT plan, try it for a few days and fully refund everything if reception for some reason isn't good at either location?
    Is it better to buy everything at the Apple Store, ATT Store or do I buy the iPhone at the Apple Store then just activate at home through iTunes?

    You might, before you buy an iPhone, talk to AT&T about whether they could set up you with a phone (not an iPhone, but another type of GSM phone) that could be returned to them for a complete refund, one with which you could test the coverage first. Then if the coverage works, you could return the first phone and buy an iPhone. I don't know for sure if they would have a policy that would work like that, but it's probably worth talking to them about. Might save you the restocking fee.

  • Discharges as a trial version of aperture, like the try before you buy?

    discharges as a trial version of aperture, like the try before you buy?

    Apple discontinued the formal trial; if there's a store nearby which sells Macs, it may be installed on a display model.
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  • "Try Before You Buy" in the App Store?

    Okay I keep reading about this (magical) new section in the App Store... but I can't see it on my iPhone... where it at???
    Thanks
    SS

    most of the apps in there were already free apps, all of them are games. I would love to see a 1 or 2 day trial for apps like tom tom or other expensive apps. That would be the point of true try before you buy.

  • Getting Credit of Movie Rental when Purchasing?  Try before you Buy?

    When you rent a movie through iTunes, and after viewing the movie you wish you had purchased it, it would be nice to have the rental credited towards the purchase, if the purchase was done within the 24 hours of viewing.   This is a Try Before You Buy option.   Anyone else like to see this?

    Tell Apple.
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  • We have you fill out card and iTunes is still the appstoor asks for payment method before you buy

    how can i edit my account?
    i need to change my country and a payment method
    i filld money to redeem and i cant buy anythings whaaaaaaaaaaaaaay???
    heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllllllllpp meeeeeeeee

    Sometimes it is helpful to post in your native language too so that another native speaker can pick up the post and explain to your better understanding.
    You have received a message regarding  "kernel protection" mode which is the computer's way of alerting you to a fault (usually) in the system files. The first thing to try is a shut down: Hold down the Power button for a few seconds until you hear the drive stop and see the display go black. Leave it for a little while, then press the Power button to start up your system as you normally would. This usually gives the system a chance to do a "File System Check" and make any necessary repairs. Nothing is required of you at this stage except to wait for the process to complete. If everything is now in order, then your computer will boot normally. It might take a few more minutes than usual; this is alright and not to worry. If everything is fine then relaunch the app where you experienced the problem and see what happens. If it is the same thing, then get the computer to a qualified
    Apple repair service center for diagnosis. (Before you spend your money on the upgrade there might be a fix closer to hand at a much lower price. The computer could very well "heal itself" in the restart process.)

  • Try appstore apps before you buy???

    There are a few paid apps I would like to try but I am not paying $10 for them only to find out they are bad. I would be nice to be able to try an app for a short period of time before you are charged for it. So many of the free apps I have thought looked cool turned out not to be and I deleted them.

    Yes we should be able to.
    Beta and Upgrade paths (which ought to be simple enough, since the iTunes store already KNOWS which apps you have already bought) would coax more more money out of my account and get it to both Apple and the Developers.
    I have bought a half-dozen or so apps already, but now that I have the whole early-adopter **** out of my system, putting out anything more than a few bucks based on the little write-ups seems like gambling.

  • Read before you buy a Zen Mi

    Here's the experience of one really unhappy customer. Haven't yet had a reply to my last message to Customer Support, but don't really expect to receive anything helpful.
    MESSAGE :
    I bought my Zen Micro in April, have used it to read about 5 NetLibrary audiobooks and nothing else, and already it's giving me a 'Hardware Error' message when I turn it on. That's the last in a long list of problems:
    * The earphone jack caused problems almost from the first. I assumed it was just the cheap little earbuds that came with the product, and bought some new, good-quality ones last month. The problem, instead of going away, just got worse.
    * Also about a month ago, it started to have problems shutting down. It would show the "Shutting Down" message, but just stay like that until I removed the battery or hit reset. An extreme annoyance with an audiobook when you don't know exactly where you were when you left off since the bookmarks I set weren't saved.
    * The software can't handle large audiobooks. With the .* firmware, I could upload a big book (28 hours), but it only showed about 0 hours, after which the remaining time was zero and the fast forward and seek features no longer worked. Combine this with the problem shutting down, and I was ready to pull out my hair.
    * The software won't even upload that 28-hour book with the 2.* firmware, nor will WMP0. I had to use RealPlayer, but then the Zen wouldn't recognize the track length at all. Again, no fast forward or seek, even through the first 0 hours. Had to go back to the old firmware just so I could get back to where I was in the my book.
    I feel ripped off-about $200 for being able to listen to 5 books! The warranty says I'll have to pay labor costs to get the hardware error fixed, but even if I do, I'll still be left with a bad earphone jack, no support for big audiobooks and probably more problems shutting down in the future. Oh yes, and no indication that Creative even knows that people like to listen to audiobooks. Not everyone in the MP3 market is a music-mad teenager, you know. Or well, you don't, but I sure wish you would figure it out. Check out your own forums, CNet's and any number others, and you'll see how many frustrated readers are out there.
    REPLY FROM A CUSTOMER SUPPORT REP:
    The problem you described indicates your unit may require repair or replacement. If possible, try exchanging the product for another from the vendor, for this may be much quicker and easier than having an RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization) issued. If this is not possible, an RMA will need to be arranged to have your product tested for repair/replacement.
    If the product has exceeded its three month labor warranty period, a non-refundable US $25.00 diagnostics and handling fee will be required.
    The fee is applied toward the complete cost of repair/replacement. If the cost of the repair/replacement exceeds the initial diagnostic fee, the RMA department will contact you to obtain your authorization for finance of the remaining fee. If the product is still within the year hardware warranty, as long as there is no physical damage, all hardware component replacement costs will be covered by the hardware warranty. If the product is not outside its three month labor warranty, no diagnostic fee is required. ..
    (Detailed instructions omitted)
    Once this information is applied to the RMA database, we will reply to you with an RMA reference number and shipping instructions.
    * Please note that an estimation of repair costs cannot be made without the above information.
    If you still require assistance, please reply to this email with any previous correspondence to ensure the quickest and most accurate service.
    MESSAGE 2:
    This reply is NOT helpful, and it suggests you have not read everything I wrote. I did not contact Customer Service in order to receive a form letter. If Creative wishes hopes to keep me as a customer who will buy future products, it will have to do a great deal better than that!
    Of course, the unit needs fixing. It does not work. Though more than three months old (as I already told you), it has not been used all that much, and yet it has multiple problems that did not show up until after the warranty expired. The fact that I am expected to pay anything at all when you offer no explanation of why I am experiencing the other problems I described astonishes me. As my original e-mail pointed out, even if the problem that causes it to display 'Hardware Problem,' is fixed, there are other problems as well, including the one with the software which will not function properly in importing large books. My paying you $25 to fix what is obviously a defecti've product will still leave me which a player that is less than satisfactory.
    It is clear from Creative's forums that the Zen Micro line has experienced repeated problems with defecti've headphone jacks, and I have read a great deal that suggests this has in turn led to the failure of the entire unit. I do not know whether this is a design flaw or a manufacturing problem, but it scarcely seems like something I should have to pay to correct.
    I have also read that Creative is aware of the problems with importing large files. Well, they can hardly fail to be aware of it, since there plenty of complaints about this in your own forums. And yet Creative does not appear to be doing anything to fix the problem, and doesn't even acknowledge it on their Web site. Are there any plans to address this bug? If so, what are they?
    Service, please.
    REPLY 2 FROM A CUSTOMER SUPPORT REP (different person):
    Thank you for contacting us. As your player is reading an error message that states "hard disc problem", this is specifically an issue that requires your product to be sent in, as there may be an issue with the internal hard disc dri've on the player. At that time, you may also have the head phone jack loss issue repaired under the warranty. There is a $25.00 labor fee after 90 days from purchase date shown on your receipt.
    This is a standard fee for anyone outside the labor period (90 days), as stated clearly on our website at us.creative.com, SUPPORT, under WARRANTY AND RETURNS.
    These are your options at this time, if you wish to proceed with an RMA, we will be happy to assist you. Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns.
    If you still require assistance, please reply to this email with any previous correspondence to ensure the quickest and most accurate service.
    MESSAGE 3:
    Of course, I have futher concerns.
    . I did not receive a message that states "hard disc problem"; it says "hardware error," as I wrote. Is anyone actually paying attention to what I write?
    2. There are additional hardware issues that preceded that one. If I pay the $25, even if you send me a new Micro, it appears that these problems are common in the Micro and likely to occur again. Am I about to may more money just to continue having the same problems? I want some explanation of what is going on before I spend another penny and some assurance that I will not simply be throwing good money after bad.
    3. There is still the issue of the software/firmware, which cannot handle large audiobooks. What does Creative plan to do about this? Anything? So far, I have had two responses, and no one has even had the courtesy to acknowledge what I wrote, much less to provide me with any answers. This has nothing to do with any warranty.
    4. My player was out of warranty for one lousy month when I wrote you. I have a player with multiple problems, all of which the company appears to have been aware of when they sold me the unit, and Creative is insisting on sticking to the fine print. Why on earth would I want to do further business with such a company?
    I want this issue escalated to a manager or someone who will actually address ALL the issues I have raised.

    He is she and a grandmother, not some kid on the prowl. What kind of free stuff do you think I'm after? What I want is for them to wai've the $25 fee for fixing a problem that in most products would lead to a recall. They've known about the problem for some time, and it is one that, by its very nature, is likely to occur after the three-month warranty is up. I might not have felt so strongly about this, though, if the first two replies from Customer Service hadn't sounded as if they didn't even bother to read what I wrote. That is certainly not what I would consider good service.

  • Does anyone know of anywhere to try Ink and Slide before you buy?

    Hi All,
    Does anyone know of anywhere to try an Ink & Slide before buying?
    I can't really warrant the cost without first knowing whether it fits my needs well enough.
    Cheers,
    Mollusk.

    Don't know where but just in case you own an iPad Air 2... Do Not buy!
    At least not now. Adobe, we beg you, please give us something - a statement, as Adonit has...

  • X1 Carbon is the worst thinkpad I have ever had - think before you buy

    I just got X1 Carbon. Let's make it clear that this notebook is not worth the money. X230 is probably much better choice. You will get much better notebook with better hardware, better battery time, better size. It is not worth to buy X1 just because it is thin.
    Actually when you have X230 in your hands it feels much smaller than X1 Carbon!!!
    X1 Carbon Facts:
    No i7 with 8GB RAM
    No 1000Gbps NIC (not even USB adapter with 1Gbps)
    I dont understand how business notebook does not have 1Gbps NIC. My 3.5 years old X61 has got 1Gbps NIC. Brand new X1 Carbond does not have it. I cannot believe it.
    Don't buy it. It is waist of money. Look at Toshiba or MacBook or X230. They are much better notebooks. I will look at Toshiba next after this bad experience. It is clear that Lenovo is not IBM and they started making compromizes. Thinkpad is not as it used to be.
    Have a good day.

    AriinPHD wrote:
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    You wish to connect it to an Ethernet connection (10/100 dongle exists)
    You are a technician and/or engineer
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    I gotta say I really love this baby, but I can't really use it for anything. Especially not in the field.
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  • Listen before you buy?

    Well, this is a real iTunes newbie question, but can one listen to a tune, or a sample of a tune, before buying? and if so, how does one do this??

    Eliot wrote:
    Well, this is a real iTunes newbie question, but can one listen to a tune, or a sample of a tune, before buying? and if so, how does one do this??
    Yes. Double click on any audio file on the itunes store.

  • What they DONT tell you before you buy.

    It is virtually impossible to transfer contacts from your previous phone. There is NO VIABLE INTERNET VIDEO PHONE FACILITY. DO NOT BUY THIS ITEM AT ANY PRICE. WE BOUGHT 2 AND FEEL WE HAVE BEEN CONNED.

    Far from the truth.
    If your previous phone supports storing contacts on the SIM card, you can import the contacts stored on the SIM card with another GSM Phone. If stored on a full size SIM card, there are easy ways to cut the SIM card down to a micro size SIM card to be inserted in the iPhone 4.
    Or the carrier for the previous phone should have an option for exporting the contacts from the phone in a format that can be imported by an address book application on your computer that is supported for syncing with the iPhone.
    No contacts on your computer? You depend on your cell phone alone for your contacts with can be lost or stolen? If so, the manufacturer for your previous cell phone doesn't include software or an option for syncing contacts with an address book application on your computer? If not, why not? And if not, that isn't Apple's problem. You should voice your complaint to the manufacturer for your previous cell phone for not including an option for syncing contacts with an address book app on your computer or for importing contacts or transferring contacts from the phone to your computer.
    There are PLENTY OF VIABLE INTERNET VIDEO FACILITIES.
    You should be able to return the iPhones for payment credit within a designated period of time from the purchase date. In the U.S., an iPhone can be returned for payment credit within 30 days of the purchase date. Assuming you are not a low-life troll, run - don't walk, run back to the store where the iPhones were purchased to return the iPhones for payment credit.

  • Facts about Adobe's subscription, read before you buy.

    Facts:
    Adobe auto renew your yearly subscirption even if you don't say a word.
    Once they resubscribed you, you will have to pay for the whole year's fee.
    There is no button in your user account page to stop the auto renewal.
    There is no button in your user account page to cancel the subscription.
    You need to contact customer support personally to do it the above two action.
    If you choose to stop the auto renewal, you are only allowed to do so within 30 days AFTER your existing subscription expire and they resubscribed you.
    Adobe does not give you any reminder before your subscription expire.
    Adobe does not give you any notice after they resubscribed your product.
    The above basically means that you will need a strong reminder to tell you to disable your adobe service at the right date or else they will lock you into an additional year of payment. And if you do remember to cancel it on the right time (30 days after they renewed your product), you still have to deal with customer support that is very likely outsourced to non english native speaking country, a very frustrating process.
    As a user that has been using Adobe product for 8 years. I simply do not understand why stopping renewal is not an option in the user account if Adobe is willing to do business in good faith. Adobe's product is still good to use and I understand it might be hard to survive in the current software industry without using the subscription model, but using this cheap tactics to get a user to resubscribe is way too cheap, especially by a company with such well established reputation in the creative industry.

    This forum is about how the help forums operate, not about using the Cloud itself
    Cloud Forum http://forums.adobe.com/community/creative_cloud

  • READ before you buy Flash Memory (SD,mini sd, MMC,...

    Yesterday I searched the Internet for the meaning of the different card speeds. I came across the following Windows Mobile Team Blog website which explains that: there is no standard to the speed of the cards! The website is:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/...s/1456951.aspx
    The important paragraph from the above website reads:
    "How about speed?
    SD cards have all sorts of marketing names--Ultra, 133x, High Speed, etc. There's no standard for what these terms mean, so I can't tell you if an "Ultra" card is faster or slower than a "133x" one. But I can tell you that there are huge speed differences in different SD cards. A few years ago I did a simple test where I plugged an SD card into a desktop SD reader, copied 30M of files to it, timed the copy with a stopwatch, and then repeated the procedure with different cards. I literally found some cards that finished in 30 seconds while others took 80."
    The above was posted on Friday, January 12, 2007 11:07. So it is an up-to-date message.
    See http://www.valuemedia.co.uk and view the different products. The site gives performance test results. The Sandisk and Sandisk Ultra II mini sd cards have the same av. read speeds! Only the av. write speeds are different!!
    Also see MobyMemory:
    It is advertising its own 2GB 150x minisd as having a read speed of 12MB/s and write as 5MB. The same item also states HIGH SPEED Read - Up to 22mb per sec, Write - 7mb per sec transfers [SecureDigital v1.1 specification] The other figures must be the average read and write speeds.
    As you can see from viewing the above websites the performance of cards considerably varies. Basically do not believe the hype of the advertising e.g. 133x , 150x, Ultra etc. Investigate what the performance of the card is- the average and the minimum and maximum read and write speeds.
    The new SDHC has a new category scheme:
    http://www.sdcard.com/europe/TextPage.asp?Page=3
    The memory cards can only operate at the speed that the device you are using them in can handle.
    If you use a 80x and a 150x memory card in a device that can handle a maximum speed of 80x then both cards will run at 80x.
    Sometimes the firmware (software) of devices is updated to enable the device to handle larger storage and faster memory cards.
    The results of the performance tests are usually carried out when the card is brand new and with no data on it. This can be a little misleading with the day to day performance of a card.

    Yesterday I searched the Internet for the meaning of the different card speeds. I came across the following Windows Mobile Team Blog website which explains that: there is no standard to the speed of the cards! The website is:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/...s/1456951.aspx
    The important paragraph from the above website reads:
    "How about speed?
    SD cards have all sorts of marketing names--Ultra, 133x, High Speed, etc. There's no standard for what these terms mean, so I can't tell you if an "Ultra" card is faster or slower than a "133x" one. But I can tell you that there are huge speed differences in different SD cards. A few years ago I did a simple test where I plugged an SD card into a desktop SD reader, copied 30M of files to it, timed the copy with a stopwatch, and then repeated the procedure with different cards. I literally found some cards that finished in 30 seconds while others took 80."
    The above was posted on Friday, January 12, 2007 11:07. So it is an up-to-date message.
    See http://www.valuemedia.co.uk and view the different products. The site gives performance test results. The Sandisk and Sandisk Ultra II mini sd cards have the same av. read speeds! Only the av. write speeds are different!!
    Also see MobyMemory:
    It is advertising its own 2GB 150x minisd as having a read speed of 12MB/s and write as 5MB. The same item also states HIGH SPEED Read - Up to 22mb per sec, Write - 7mb per sec transfers [SecureDigital v1.1 specification] The other figures must be the average read and write speeds.
    As you can see from viewing the above websites the performance of cards considerably varies. Basically do not believe the hype of the advertising e.g. 133x , 150x, Ultra etc. Investigate what the performance of the card is- the average and the minimum and maximum read and write speeds.
    The new SDHC has a new category scheme:
    http://www.sdcard.com/europe/TextPage.asp?Page=3
    The memory cards can only operate at the speed that the device you are using them in can handle.
    If you use a 80x and a 150x memory card in a device that can handle a maximum speed of 80x then both cards will run at 80x.
    Sometimes the firmware (software) of devices is updated to enable the device to handle larger storage and faster memory cards.
    The results of the performance tests are usually carried out when the card is brand new and with no data on it. This can be a little misleading with the day to day performance of a card.

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