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Good afternoon I was refer here from other forum and hopefully you can help me I try to listen to an few music files I have on me :( let music listen to Won't my computer and for some reason my music program won t load It says program is not responding I have not had any problems b Here is some info I use Music Match Jukebox MMJ and Won't let me listen to music :( Windows Media player WMP When I click on an MMJ file in my music folder the hour glasses comes up but it doesn t do anything I try going to MMJ from my programs menu and the hour glasses comes up and doesn t do anything On the WMP I click on one of my music files but it will play about seconds and it will then pop up and say program not responding I also trying open an MMJ file in WMP and it Won't let me listen to music :( does the same thing I Won't let me listen to music :( put an CD in and it open up WMP and when I clicked any where in the WMP area and blank white box comes up and says program not responding but it keeps playing the same note over and over I have done several scans and stuff and nothing has been found I have Windows XP If you need more info please let me know Thanks for your help in this matter Thanks for all your help on this matter nbsp
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First reinstall the programs that don't respond.Also tell us what type of soundfile you want to play e.g. mp3, wav or other types..https://forums.techguy.org/threads/wont-let-me-listen-to-music.994845/
First, I wanted to listen to a clip on Amazon and I clicked "listen" for Windows Media Player and then another time for Real Player, since I have BOTH. All it would do was save it to my computer (entitled "hurl") and then I couldn't open it. It didn't even give the option of opening it--that was "grayed out."
Also, is there ANYwhere that I can just download a song without taking out a bank loan or giving them my firstborn? I went to Yahoo radio, too, and went through the sign-in procedure and then it wouldn't complete. The button just did nothing. I don't plan to do a lot of downloading music. I just want to get a song occasionally.
Any help will be appreciated.
Here is a link to free radio stations in the UK (I don't know where you are based)
Scroll down to the player that you use.
I had a window phone but now I have a android phone and I want to transfer my music I have saved on my windows phone.http://forums.windowscentral.com/ask-question/438899-how-can-i-listen-my-music-xbox-music-another-phone.html
What would be something to check, if you can listen to cds but not music online. Whether we open windows media player, or browse to a favorite radio station's site to listen live, we can't listen. There are no errors, it connects, buffers and looks to be playing, but there's no sound. The speakers are on and work, because we can stop and listen to a cd. I don't see any mute that is on.
Anyone have any ideas??
just want to listen to my music library without any commercials or issues
Hi, you haven't mentioned what phone you are using or the OS.
On my Lumia 930 running Win10 mobile, I use the 'Groove Music' app, then go to 'Songs' and 'Shuffle all'.
This then plays my music library (without commercials or issues).
If you need additional help or have more questions or details to share, please join the site so you can reply in this thread. See this link for instructions on how to join Windows Central.
Hello Ill go straigt freezes music use to and PC Firefox but I listen can to my problem Pc Spec AMD athlon gb of ram Nvidia mb Sound card Dont really know Cant check it right now because my pc is frozed Windows xp sp avast installed guess wall So my pc freezes randomly Not completely I ussualy can do things what i PC freezes but I can use Firefox and listen to music opened before the freeze For PC freezes but I can use Firefox and listen to music example use firefox and search internet listen to music But i can t open new things and when i try to open for example My Computer the icon in the middle of the window PC freezes but I can use Firefox and listen to music pops like it s searching something Programs ussualy wont open during the freeze Furthermore can t use ctrl alt del well i can but it wont do anything Right now my desktop froze too Scaned for viruses and such Used avast spybot malewarebytes Every program found something but i guess removed everything Althou avast is blocking new files everyday and i don t understand where are they coming from Btw i booted into safe mode and i had no freeze Well maybe i was on safe mode too short I just anted to tell this What could cause these freezes How can i fix it Sorry for long title nbsp
Several things of note. First it is absolutely essential that you update to Service Pack 3 because come July 10th XP with Service Pack 2 will no longer be supported. You need some serious updating and it may be a central reason you are experiencing issues..
Second, before you do the above there is a very strong possibility you are still infected. Go to our Virus and Malware Removal forum and read the 8 Step sticky. Follow it step by step -- don't skip any of the steps. When you finish post on that forum with the required logs attached.
Third, since you can boot into Safe Mode there is a good chance your issue is driver related, but unless the above isn't attempted you won't be able to diagnose properly.
Fourth, as a side note, you might want to consider another gig of RAM if your motherboard is designed to do so. XP and two gigs is a good combination.
Fifth, you mention both Avira and Avast. Are both of these installed? Please tell us all the security software you have installed and running in real time protection.
Good luck.
My android cellphone can successfully connect to Nokia Hands-free A19. (means handsfree is OK)
Later I Unpair it from cellphone and try to pair it to PC to try to listen to PC music via handsfree.
Windows 7 can not find handsfree!
PC Bluetooth can pair with other bluetooth device successfully! (PC is OK)
I guess may be different in protocols?
any Idea? can anybody help?
Does the desktop have Bluetooth capability? Most desktops do not have that, the capability (hardware) must be added.http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/322782-how-listen-pc-music-via-cellphone-handsfree.html
Hey guys, I am going on holiday in early June and am looking for a way to listen to music while I'm in the pool as I plan to spend a lot of time doing so.
The way I can see it is that I have two options:
Buy a waterproof case and waterproof headphones
buy a waterproof MP3 player all-in-one.
Obviously each option has it's flaws - otherwise I wouldn't be there.
Even if I buy a waterproof case how can I be sure that even though there is a waterproof case, where it contacts with waterproof earphones will be waterproof as 'waterproof' to some sellers just means rain-proof.
The problem with the all in ones like the Sony Waterproof Walkman is that they are very expensive for very little space, the 4GB alone being £50 and 8GB is £80.
Does anyone have experience in the matter, anything they can recommend, preferably I'd like to use my phone in a case for my 32GB MicroSD card, but whatever works I guess.
Cheers guys.
:big grin: My wife JUST purchase a waterproofed iPad Shuffle from waterfi.com
website is very descriptive and the device is AS Advertised - - she's very happy with it
hey, how do I get my sony z1 to play music on my bluetooth headset?
its all synced and works great when im making calls but when I put on music it just comes out of the speakers
just want to listen to my music library without any commercials or issueshttp://forums.windowscentral.com/ask-question/445589-i-want-listen-my-library-music-unempeded.html
Whenever I watch an internet video I don't hear sound, voice or music. What is not tuned on? Using IE9 browser.
sounds like a flash player issue ,
try install the latest version and let us know how you get on.
Adobe Flash Player - Downloads
Hi Guys need some advice, what free be media would you recomend ie: realplayer or quick time or?? Thanks again for any help
You know Windows Vista comes with Windows Media Player 11, right? It should have everything you need. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/...What file formats are you trying to play?User Info Page Biography for full specs.http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-vista/want-to-listen-to-some-audio-stuff-music-ect/13804.html
Good Evening everyone
I have a recently re formatted laptop. I can listen to downloaded music ( from backed up files ) BUT I cannot hear anything when on You Tube or when atteptmting to play a DVD, yet I am 100% sure it all worked the night we re formatted this beast. I really need sound, can anyone point me in the right direction. Thanks in anticipation.
Vista Home
OS Windows XP Pro. I copied music from an old computer and pasted it on the new computer for my son. As long as the flash drive is inserted, he can listen to the music. (Even though the flash drive is empty.) When the flash drive is removed and he tries to listen to the music it is prompting him to connect to the internet, and he has no internet. We took the flash drive to my house with 3 albums on it, they showed up with the same prompt to connect to the internet, even with the flash drive inserted. What might we be doing wrong? The files are "wma" files.
Thanks, Peggy
Internet Explorer /Tools /Internet Options / Connections
Make sure you select 'Never dial a connection' and Apply
In Windows Media Player
select Now Playing at the top, close and open again.
Sometimes if you have clicked on Media Guide, I've found it seems
to stick there, (until you select as above) and tries to open the Internet.
But the new computer should not be accessing the flash drive if the music
has been copied over. Clicking on any WMA file (standard windows media file)
should open Windows Media Player.
In the Player open Tools / Options / File Types and put a tick in each box.
Just trying the obvious for the moment.
Why is it everytime i put on music and i am talking to a friend my friend can here music but not much talking. isen't thre anything i can do so i can talk and listen to music at th same time without th other person hearing it
What are you using to talk to your friend?
wmp wont play music and i got warnings for spyware plz helphttp://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f284/cant-listen-to-music-on-wmp-and-windows-spyware-warnings-281066.html
I like to listen to music but I don't want to miss text, mail or call alerts, my WP immediately mutes all alerts. I've looked for settings to change this but can't seem to find any. Not sure which model it is (is a work phone and we call it the guvnor) but It's the net version of the old 1520, like a phablet.http://forums.windowscentral.com/ask-question/436221-why-does-my-wp-silence-alerts-when-i-listen-music-via-headphones.html
I used to be able to listen to music through a pair of Sony bluetooth headphones on my Wins 7 laptop. However, I am no unable to do so. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the bluetooth drivers with no success, removed and added the device. I followed a number of the steps in this thread : Bluetooth headset pairs but won't connect, not avail as playback devic , specifically the post from 11th Dec 2014 . Computer has been restarted multiple times.
I've attached an image of what I see. I can connect the headphones to the laptop, but can't listen to music. I also cannot set the headphones to default playback.
Atm, I'm listening through an aux cable, but any additional trouble shooting steps would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
hello eceryone
OS : windows 7 ultimate 32bit
I'm not sure your post will get much attention without some details. Try describing the problem in excruciating detail with many examples.http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/305778-audio-driver-lagging-when-listen-music-video-play-game.html
i have an old aptiva 2176, with an intell pentium1. was putting another hdd in it to put linux on it. now something is really messed up. the BIOS is saying no hard drive installed. i reset the BOIS to factory setting nothing. ran the recovery disk nothing, ran the siagnostics disk still nothing, reset the BIOS nothing. it will not see any harddrives at all. jumpers are fine. even my friend who is taking CS at RIT was stumped. any type of help would be nice.
Cortana doesn't listen the mic...but it is working on other software...I5559http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3517/t/19997082
Good Morning:
I have a question for you Vista gurus that is way above my pay grade.
I recently reinstalled the Vista O/S to get rid of a myriad of annoying little glitches. When I reloaded the Vuze bit torrent downloader I got an error message telling me that it had failed to establish listen with port 49423 and to check to see if it was being used by some other application. How do I go about doing this?
Many thanks for any information you good people can provide.
Powell Lucas
Originally Posted by Powell
Good Morning:
I have a question for you Vista gurus that is way above my pay grade.
I recently reinstalled the Vista O/S to get rid of a myriad of annoying little glitches. When I reloaded the Vuze bit torrent downloader I got an error message telling me that it had failed to establish listen with port 49423 and to check to see if it was being used by some other application. How do I go about doing this?
Many thanks for any information you good people can provide.
Powell Lucas
what firewall are you running? what router?
In my system Windows XP SP1 is insatlled. I want to know how to test that my inbuilt (cabinet) speaker is working or not. In Dxdiag tool, under music tab four music ports are listed....
1) Microsoft Synthesizer
2) C-Media Wave Device
3) Microsoft MIDI Mapper [Emulated]
4) Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth [Emulated]
When i test Directmusic then i am able to listen the music( outside speaker) from first two. But no sound from last two i.e (3 and 4). Please tell me this hardware or software problem. I don't get any error message from anywhere.
hi there
I think it is time that the computer should be able to PERFECTLY understand the human through speech and respond back to him, like in movies (iron man even flubber ).
I used the speech recognition software in vista but it still needs loads of improvement.
So i was wondering if any of you know about any software which helps in doing this, or atleast something that can make the PC have cool conversations with you and read texts with you (i know about narrator, very robotic).
Eagerly waiting for any discussions regarding this.
Although great improvements have been made with speech recognition, home computers currently don't have the capacity to comprehend fully spoken language. For a start off, words can have a slightly different meaning depending on how it is pronounced, and the context in which it is used. In addition, the human brain can recognise the same word when pronounced in many different ways by people with differing accents and dialogue inflections. Unless the speech recognition system in a computer has already learnt the word, and the ways that it may be pronounced, it cannot understand a word if asked to recognise it through audio input. Even if it does know the word, it might not recognise it if it comes in a different accent and inflection.
As regards the computer outputting speech, it is currently very robotic because the number of voices available is very limited. Although the pitch and speed can be varied, this usually affects all of what is being output by the same amount, unlike normal human speech which can change in pitch and speed dynamically. Whilst certain punctuation can make the pitch of the word prior to it rise or fall, the end result is still very much robotic.
Unfortunately, home computers simply don't have the memory capacity or resources in order to be able to speak and to understand speech in the same way as a human brain can. Mainframe computers fair better because they have more memory and resources available, in addition to more processing power thanks to them supporting multiple CPUs (realistic speech comprehension and reproduction is CPU-intensive).
So i have been trying to install AVG 8.0 free edition on this computer; however, whenever i try to get it to run the extraction bar comes up at any random moment a msg box pops up saying "are you sure you want to cancel" i have been clicking no and the extraction gets to about 80% or it looks like it completes... BAM it closes itself... I had downloaded it on the computer i want to install it on... i have also downloaded it onto a flashdrive from a different computer and when i try to run/install the AVG on the flashdrive it does the exact same thing BUT when i go back to the flashdrive, the avg.exe file is GONE and the file isnt in the recycle bin either
ps. i run XP with SP2 cause i'm pretty sure you NEED SP2 before you can install AVG
I simply want to listen to MP3 files that are stored on a DVD disc. I just tried opening it in my computer and was hoping to copy the files to my computer from the DVD disc.
I tried to play it in WMP but says I am missing the Codec. This is my work puter and I don't have any DVD software installed. Is there a way I can access these files? Any help?
Thank you much.
Getting error message "Missing ID3 Headers"
mabey here..
Can I plug an antena into the USB port and listen to Radio stations? anyone experience with that?
Are you aware that most radio stations are already available online?http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/251797/listen-to-radio-and-tv-on-pc/
well i have a cd drive kinda looks like this
and if i plug my headphones in the headphone slot on the drive, all i can hear is static but if i hook them up in the back of my pc, i can hear my music just fine, no static. my headphone cord is short so i cant use the back, and i want to use the front where its closer. how can i do that?
i am using virtual dub to record videos, and a i have a setup that has my mic played through my headset so when VD records the headset it hears me as well, but there is a delay so it has an Eco and that is a annoying, is there a way to listen to the mic but it doesn't reach the headset or something along those lines?
sugestions for good recording software is welcome also
The problem is most likely a monitor setting in VD. When I was first recording some albums off a turntable using Audacity, I kept getting an echo through the speakers. The USB turntable would normally play the sound through the speakers fine until I tried to record it. Turns out, Audacity has a setting to turn monitor-sound on or off. I turned it off and all worked great. You might check VD for a similar setting.http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/290131-listen-mic-but-still-have-muted.html
Hey guys You know how Device? Mic USB to - Listen in USB Mic - Listen to Device? W you have an option to check off quot Listen to Device quot when looking at microphone properties and by doing so it plays the sound directly through your desktop speakers Well my question is how does one accomplish this in Windows XP I have a webcam setup but I would like to listen to the sound directly Preferably without having to run any software I can tell you my purpose if it helps I am using a webcam as a baby monitor I use Flash media Encoder and Justin tv to stream it The nursery is only a piece of plywood away from my computer so it goes right through Now I can play both video and audio through the browser when playing the feed in the browser But there is a delay So in Windows all I need to do is play the sound directly through the speakers and that way I don't have the problem of the sound being delayed Considering the video at night is useless because it's dark I'm not worried about that delay And during the day we can hear things fine so we can look over to the computer and see what we heard quite funny really Anyway like I said I'm trying to play the sound of the microphone directly over the computer speakers Does anyone know how to accomplish this
Older sound cards had two sets of input output controls. One for input and one for recording. You were able to turn on the mic and speakers at the same time. Wasn't very useful as you always got feedback. Don't know about your sound card but have a look. Maybe you won't have the feedback if you can get the mic far enough away.
Good Luck, jim
Hi guys
When I am some messenger like paltalk or yahoo , if i want others listen to my music through my Mic without phisicaly i put the Mic near my speaker , I mean others listen to my music through the computer with original sound . I hope i could explain well.
is it possible in some way ??
thanks in advance
For some reason, my PC has started to refuse to play live streams. When I try on WMP, I get a message about removing the media I am trying to play and reconnecting to the internet. I have no luck in other media players. I've tried changing the WMP associated with live streams, but that hasn't worked.
Any suggestions ?
Is just asking you to remove the media you trying to play or do you get a more specific error message?
Are you able to play the files locally. Have you tried to play streaming media from different locations?
I was given a beautiful set of speakers for my computer and I would like to set it up so that I can listen to music on radio while surfing with my friends in TSG.
Two questions:
1. What is the best application to do that...
2. Does listening to radio while surfing slow down your connection...
Hi, a friend recommended me to this forum and said you guys are a great community here, anyway onto the point:
My uncle needs some help with a bunch of files he has of sound recordings that are in the .trm format. I've never heard of this format before, and I tried searching for info for about an hour, and got results and info that led me nowhere and was completely foreign to me.
I need some way to load these .trm files which are supposedly audio recordings so that we can play them back and listen to them. Please reply asap as I need this for tomorrow. Thanks!
virtually any radio station website I try will not play. I click on the listen live link (no matter if I'm on firefox or explorer) and it give an error message and shuts the browser down. I have windows xp media edition. Also, when I bring up my media player, and I click on the file link it gives a list of some videos/jpg that have been viewed in the past. They seem "stuck". I don't know if the problems are related? Help?
welp, maybe try checking for any updates for media player?
a friend gave to listend some compact data storage music cds that can only be listen from a mp 3200-7000 from a company in europe called Mood Media . how can i listen to this cds. do i need a emulator, a software...?the cd has this logo sacem,sacd,sdrm,sgdl. need help thank u .
Hi and welcome to TSF have you tried winamp Download Winamp Media Player - Free MP3, Video, and Music Player - Winamphttp://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f10/how-can-i-listen-cd-mood-media-667855.html
Autoplay insists on using the "Open folder to view files" option.
It is set to prompt me on what to do.
Instead it INSISTS on using the "Open folder to view files" option.
This makes me sad.
Please help.
Nevermind. It was the CDROM driver. The CDROM driver was being mean.
I can't listen to Spotify through headphones (or my external speakers). My win 7 laptop plays it only from through computer's own internal speakers. I've tried everything you can possibly imagine, but still the music comes out from wrong place. Skype on the other hand works with the headphones. Can anyone help me, please... I'm quite desperate
In Control Panel>Sound, make sure your headphones are set as the default device. Click on them and select Default Device at the bottom.
Good luck!
see the attached pic
radio sure - just type a station, call letter, style, state and it will search.
screamer - same thing. radio sure is better
spider player - you have to know the artist or song to search.
ALL will record right to HDD as an MP3
( however, any station I want is not allowed due to the station being blocked )
Ok the site gives a button to hit to Listen ,,Well i press it and i get this ,,any clue?
Now recently i unistalled real player cause it wouldnt work
I installed XP on an old laptop because win7 has latency issues with audio. This laptop is a dell and has the IDT hd audio drivers installed. Normally i would click on the speaker in the bottom right and go over to line in or mic and unmute it, that would allow me to be able to listen to the line. BUT i dont have any options for "listen" or "mute/unmute" I can still record but i can't hear what is being recorded. Under settings and recording devices the option for advanced settings is grayed out. My goal is to be able to record music with this laptop. But all the conventional methods have not been working. Is there possible a third party program that will allow me to hear my mic in real time (similar to karaoke) or some other IDT utiliy that would give me the desired options?
Anybody have any ideas?
Hi snowman and welcome to PCHF.
After you have installed Windows XP did you go to the Dell site and get the proper drives for the system. You will need to install them in the proper order starting with the chipset.
Hello all,
I am using ASIO4ALL with Traktor 3 so that I am able to get 2 channels out of my soundcard.
What I mean is that I am using one channel for the speakers and another channel for my headphones.
I need the headphones so as to listen to the "Cue" Deck.
I have connected my speaker system to my soundcard with one cable.
But I had figured out (when I used XP) that I was able to have what I want when the settings were 5.1 speaker system at realtek settings.
Now I cannot listen to anything from Traktor 3 when using ASIO4ALL.
What can I do?
Thank you for your time.
This is mystery to me as well. I tried using ASIO4ALL with FL Studio 8/9 but couldn't get any sound at all...http://www.sevenforums.com/software/48146-asio4all-traktor-3-cannot-listen-anything.html
I am trying to set up a listen server for COD UO. I am only trying to set it up for two people. (me and another individual) The other individual has my server populate on his screen via my ip, but when he tries to join, it just says "awaiting connection" and never connects. We both more than meet the system requirements and have high speed cable. I have have turned off windows firewall when attempting this, but still nothing. I have e-mail the folks at activision, and they are yet to reply. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Ok, I have a Liteon-Ltr 24102b 24x cdr/w drive. It is in a gateway PC 1.6ghz pent 4. Win. Xp, and when up dating from Easy Cd creator basic to platnium, my cdr when away. I tried everything I can think of to get it back. I tried uninstalls, and even software up dates, after that it stated that it had installed the drivers but the hard ware was not found. (code 41) if that helps. What is going on around here.
how do i listen to am radio on my computer?
You can't. Unless your station has a website and they offer web listening.http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f10/how-do-i-listen-to-am-radio-on-my-computer-282290.html
hi i have songs which i download from a p p software Ares in my pc now when i burn these burn through nero smart software burncd/listen to able songs not it burns succesfull mp format it burns properly and it workf fine in my pc however when i play the same cd in my car cd player pionerr cd player it doesnt works there and gives an error there is no issue my car cd player i checked that with car accessories shops and i have tried burning cd in all format i e data cd mp cd and also audio cd gives the same error in all the cars in which not able to burncd/listen songs i checked and i also tried burning cd through windows and alos through two more software i e cd burner etc still doesnt work just wondering is there any issue with cd writer or can you plz help me i just bought pc three months ago wanna listen tothose songs in my car nbsp
Hi and welcome. You obviously missed our forum rules on the way in. I would HIGHLY suggest that you read them before you post again.
Closing thread.
I am running Windows Vista Ultimate SP1. Everytime i try to listen to radio on-line (i have tried several sites with no luck!) It will not start streaming. What happens is this......
i click on the link to open the streaming radio (in this case. http://www.929.com.au/player) what happens is, in the status bar of the player it says 'connecting to media' for about 30 seconds, then the status bar goes back to 'Ready'.
I am running McAfee Security center as my virus protection and firewall, could this be the problem?? Help!!
Player option
andyc2008 said:
I am running Windows Vista Ultimate SP1. Everytime i try to listen to radio on-line (i have tried several sites with no luck!) It will not start streaming. What happens is this......
i click on the link to open the streaming radio (in this case. http://www.929.com.au/player) what happens is, in the status bar of the player it says 'connecting to media' for about 30 seconds, then the status bar goes back to 'Ready'.
I am running McAfee Security center as my virus protection and firewall, could this be the problem?? Help!!Click to expand...
Have you not been asked to install it's player ?
Or give you a choice of player ?
I'll try your link.
Since installing Win 7 I can no longer listen to radio stations. When I click on the 'listen live now' button the sound just doesn't start. Youtube & MP3s etc work ok. Device Manager says drivers are uptodate.
What tweaking needs doing??
windows xp model 28
ישנם מספר אתרים באינטרנט שיש בהם שיעורי שמיעה בסינית
אינני יכולה לשמוע את מרבית השיעורים
האם אתם יכולים להמליץ לי על פעולות במחשב שלי על מנת לפתור את הבעיה? .נאמר לי שאין שום בעיה באתרים
You mean it drives you crazy?
is it possible to listen to what is being played thru another compys soundcard on a network?
I have a desktop at home. I want to be able to record / edit stuff on this compy, but thru something like VNC or something similar. trying to avoid turning it up very very loud, can this be done over the network?
I've never seen one that includes sound, if they exist, they're not common.
Since around 10 days ago, I've been unable to listen to online radio streams. On the player, it just says "Ready". Please help!!!!
I don't have the ability to install the Audible . com program on my computer at work (admin), and I'd like to listen to my books on this computer, what do I have to do to be able to listen to my books on this computer?
I don't use the computer version of Audible, I listen off my iPhone. That said, I believe there are options to convert to MP3 or burn to disk.
It looks like you can stream your books.
Go to Audible and scroll to the bottom of the page.
Select the Listening Apps link, second column top link.
Scroll to the bottom and select Audible Cloud Player Go To Library link.
Click the Play link under the icon of the book you want to listen.
You will have to have Silverlight installed.
If that doesn't work on your home machine Install Audible Manager from the Listening Apps page and convert them to MP3.
I have the Bose Companion 5 speakers for my HP pavilion dv7 1232nr laptop, and the pc refuses to recognize them when ever I plug into usb port, once in a while after restarting the pc and/or plugging , unplugging the USB cable I am lucky enough to be able to listen to my $400 speakers.
Any advice ?
thank you
you may need to connect with a self powered usb hub
hey i live in the uk and normaly listen to my fav. radio station Metroradio online but for some reason today i can't. it says this when i try to listen:
Cannot open. Please verify that the path and filename are correct and try again. (Error=C00D0029)
COuld somebody please help!
Hi guys. I have a problem that is really bugging me.
I think I blocked the streaming accidentally a few weeks ago : I clicked on 'Listen Live' on a radio station, and a warning popped up, and I think I made a mistake by clicking on 'block' or whatever instead of allowing the sound streaming through.
However even though I have uninstalled Norton now, I still can't get any sound. I'd really appreciate any help.
Is it something else that is blocking the sound (Windows Firewall perhaps?) and if so how can I resolve this problem? My operating platform is Windows XP. I have Realplayer.
Hello, i have a tv tuner, but the sound needs to go from the tuner to the line in. I have a cable which connects those 2, but i am unable to figure out how to listen to the audio coming into the line in... I have vista OS. Any ideas?
Hi Guys, i build an 5 channels amp and i have 5 speakers, i have an SoundCard with 5 channels Output, i found that if the song is just 2 channels the output will be to the Front Speakers, is possible to send the output to the Front and Rear Speakers?
Thanks in advance.
as long as you have front,rear inputs for your
amp that you built & front,rear ouputs,then yes
you can.
plug another jack (3.5 mm mini jack/RCA) from your sound card's
rear output to the rear input of the amp then you're ready to go.
& dont forget,the rear speakers connected to the rear output
channel of your amp.
I have been using Windows Speech Recognition for about a year While I find it to be more fun than practical I have Listen To My Anymore PC Wont Me put a lot of time into teaching it my voice and getting it to respond to my commands All of a sudden it has stopped working I have searched the Internet for a solution and can't find one Several people have entered posts citing their problems with WSR My PC Wont Listen To Me Anymore and the errors they get when trying to use it My problem is different I can't get WSR to launch at all When I click on it the quot little wheel quot goes around for a second or two and then nothing My microphone and speakers are working fine Can WSR become broken Can it be replaced Are there any settings I may have accidentally changed that I need to put back the way they were WSR has become almost a friend a personality for my computer and I miss it Any help will be appreciated Likekinds
Hi likekinds. . .
Welcome back to TSF.
I haven't used this option, but there have reports involving various devices that have just stopped functioning. I don't know if your's is one of them or not. For me it is my mouse pad, others it is DVD, sound, etc...
Try running the system file check/repair utility -
START | type cmd.exe in the start search box | right-click on cmd.exe | select Run as Admin.
At the command prompt type the following:
sfc /scannow
regards. . .
Hi Folks,
My problem seems to only pertain to YouTube videos. Either they play with no sound, or else they don?t play at all. When they don?t play at all, I get an error saying ?You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. Download it from Adobe (Click here)?. But when I click to download it, I get another error saying ?Flash Player 10.1 is not currently available for your 64-bit web browser.?
Whenever the YouTube videos do play, I have no sound. I know it?s not a hardware problem since the sound is fine when watching other internet videos (such as news website videos, tutorial videos from Crutchfield Electronics, etc.). The problem only seems to occur with YouTube. Any suggestions? I suspect it is a driver issue or Adobe Flash issue. BTW: I have Dell Inspiron 546 desktop with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit version.
Thank you for any advice!
Uninstall Flash using the tool at this link and then reinstall it.
Hi Folks This is my first post Perhaps YouTube Cannot Listen to/Watch I should be posting in the quot Cannot Listen to/Watch YouTube Drivers quot forum instead if so please move it Cannot Listen to/Watch YouTube Moderator My problem seems to only pertain to YouTube videos Either they play with no sound or else they don t play at all When they don t play at all I get an error saying You need to Cannot Listen to/Watch YouTube upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video Download it from Adobe Click here But when I click to download it I get another error saying Flash Player is not currently available for your -bit web browser Whenever the YouTube videos do play I have no sound I know it s not a hardware problem since the sound is fine when watching any other internet videos such as news website videos tutorial videos from Crutchfield Electronics etc The problem only seems to occur with YouTube Any suggestions I suspect it is a driver issue or Adobe Flash issue BTW I have Dell Inspiron desktop with Windows Home Premium -bit version Thank you for any advice
It sounds like you are using Internet Explorer 64 bit. Try using the 32 bit version instead and you should be able to install Flash fine.
(64-bit Windows comes pre-loaded with both versions).
i have been having trouble for the last week trying to listen to an via radio media to cannot listen player? online radio staion via windows media player the trouble being no sound comming from the player but it says that the station is playing but no sound seems to come from it i thought that there may of cannot listen to radio via media player? been something wrong with my computer but evrey other sound seems to be working correctly for instance i can listen to other online radio stations no problem or other online media e g quot youtube quot the problem seems to be with this particular cannot listen to radio via media player? station the station in question if anybody wants to try for themselves to see what the problem may be is gt www radio com and click on the quot k bit lo fi quot option on the left when you first enter the site as the quot k bit hi fi quot doesnt seem to work i would like for someone to try for them selves with their computers to see if they get any sound as evrey other bit of sound is functioning correctly on my computer it may not be a big problem but i just wanted to see if anyone else experianced problems which would mean that its a problem with quot radio quot and not my p c nbsphttps://forums.techguy.org/threads/cannot-listen-to-radio-via-media-player.561988/
My Motorola x phone won't open unless I am connected to wifi or data,
Originally Posted by Windows Central Question My Motorola x phone won't open unless I am connected to wifi or data, you might want to ask in the android forums for this: Ask a Question - Android Forums at AndroidCentral.comhttp://forums.windowscentral.com/ask-question/437411-why-cant-i-listen-my-playlists-without-wifi-data.html
i downloaded some MP3 audio files from the NPR (national public radio) website & copied them to cd using nero 6. They are interviews that I would like to play in my car's cd player. They play in wmp on my pc but the player in my car won't recognize them. Is there a way around this? Can they be converted to a format recognized by my player? Do I have to buy an mp3 player?
Any help apperciated.
I have this problem I am hoping someone can help me with When ever I try to listen to radio from any player on my computer it buffers every couple of seconds non stop I have tried updating drivers downloading codecs reinstalling players winamp quicktime realplayer not wmp because I am stuck with that one tweaked buffering settings messed with modem etc But any thing I do things remain the same I am sure I am missing some fundemental setting somwhere Please help I posted a couple of weeks ago but I guess that post fell through the cracks If I am in the wrong forum some one please direct me to the radio Can't to internet Solved: listen correct one Below I have a list of my motherboard properties Its on board and I am confused as to where to go for updates or resources or how to implement the fixes if I find them so please walk me Solved: Can't listen to internet radio through any solutions I luv you guys -------- AIDA c - Tamas Miklos --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version AIDA v Author email protected Homepage http www aida hu Report Type Quick Report Computer HPPAV Generator bob Operating System Microsoft Windows ME WinMe Retail Date - - Time -------- Chipset ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chipset Properties Motherboard Chipset Intel Whitney i In-Order Queue Depth CAS Latency T RAS To CAS Delay T RAS Precharge T RAS Active Time T Integrated Graphics Controller Graphics Controller Type Intel i Graphics Controller Status Enabled Shared Memory Size MB AC Audio Controller Audio Controller Type Intel AA ICH Codec Name Cirrus Logic CS Codec ID h Memory Slots DRAM Slot MB SDRAM DRAM Slot MB SDRAM Chipset Manufacturer Company Name Intel Corporation Product Information http www intel com products browse chipsets htm Driver Download http support intel com support chipsets index htm -------- Debug - PCI ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B D F Intel GMCH - DRAM Controller A- Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset AA C Offset Offset CE Offset C F F Offset C Offset A Offset B Offset C Offset D Offset E Offset F B D F Intel GMCH - Graphics Controller A- Offset B Offset F F Offset Offset DC A Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset A Offset B Offset C Offset D Offset E Offset F B D E F Intel AA I O Controller Hub ICH B- Offset Offset Offset F F F FF Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset A Offset B Offset C Offset D Offset E Offset F A B D F F Intel AA I O Controller Hub - PCI-LPC Bridge Offset F Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset A B D Offset Offset Offset FF FC Offset A Offset B Offset C FE Offset D F Offset E Offset F A B D F F Intel AA I O Controller Hub - IDE Controller Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset A A Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset A Offset B Offset C Offset D Offset E Offset F A B D F F Intel AA I O Controller Hub - USB Controller Offset C Offset Offset Offset B Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset A Offset B Offset C F Offset D Offset E Offset F A B D F F Intel AA I O Controller Hub - SMBus Controller Offset C Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset A Offset B Offset C Offset D Offset E Offset F A B D F F Intel AA I O Controller Hub - AC Audio Adapter Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset A Offset B Offset C Offset D Offset E Offset F A B D E F Lucent WinModem Offset C E Offset F Offset E Offset F A FC E Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset Offset A Offset B Offset C Offset D Offset E Offset F -------- Debug - Video BIOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ C U P t x IBM VGA Compatible BIOS H C Version Video memory C MB Device Revision DECOMPILATION OR DISASSEMBLY PROHIB C C ITED pyright C - Intel Corporation All Rights C Reserved PCIR q P D C t c- C c- C C P c OP U C ... Read more
kinda sounds like your internet connection, or a conflict. you could use another stick of ram, but gota think it's the connection, phone lines or sever.
Hope I'm posting this in the right forum.
This is probably a total newbie question but for the life of me I haven't been able to figure it out. I sometimes like to listen to my audio CDs with headphones plugged into the jack in the front of my CD drives. I disabled digital audio CD for both drives just so I could listen with headphones on. Winamp and Windows Media Player have no problem with playing audio CDs, but I can't get any sound in my headphones when I use foobar (can't get it in VLC either btw). There's sound coming out of the speakers but nothing in the headphones. How do I get foobar to play analog?
Oh, and I'm using foobar2000 v.0.9
Hey !
I would like start off by saying that I know that there are a lot threads about this problem already, but I googled for hours without any success. I tried everything I came across but nothing worked. I have tried the following:
1. Turning "Stereo Mix" off
2. Turning off the built-in microphone "play-back" in the Realtek HD-audio configuration
3. Tried configuring Skype's embedded audio settings
But nothing has worked so far. I only use 2 devices (one for the mic, and one for sound) and it is only those that are active, the rest are disabled.
I have enabled both "Reduction of Noise" and "Acoustic echo off" in the sound card's control panel.
What more is there to try?
I have the onboard sound card on the "MS-7360" mobo.
Thanks in advance!
All of a sudden, there's no audio at all audible on all the clips I am playing. I've been trying to use a headphone. I've tried playing connecting the speakers. The audio does play but as I said, it's not audible. Any clues?
you may try installing audio drivers again..........
these things happen suddenly by fault in audio drivers or some miscue with your media player's audio output
Please Help Me On How To Listen Microphone On Computer Speakers, because i can record the sounds, but i canot hear via the speakers without recording....
weebo said:
Please Help Me On How To Listen Microphone On Computer Speakers, because i can record the sounds, but i canot hear via the speakers without recording....
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Hi, weebo.
Double-click on the speaker icon in your taskbar and look for the
Microphone slider in the mixer "Volume Control" window. When you
slide up the mic controll you should hear your voice on the speakers.
It may not be very loud, this is to prevent feedback.
If you want to monitor whet your microphone is picking up you'll need
to use headphones.
I hope this helps.
I just recently purchased a Skype number and I have a few emails telling me that I have a new voice message and I should sign into Skype to listen to them.
So I signed into the metro style Skype app on windows 8.1 but could not find voice messages. I tried on the surface rt app but no option for voice messages. I tried logging into the Skype website and again could not find my messages.
So how does one listen to their voice messages in Skype?
Nobody knowshttp://www.eightforums.com/software-apps/33951-how-listen-voice-messages-skype.html
Don't recall how or where I saw this info but if you listen to streaming internet music or radio talk shows; etc. in the U.S., you will want to do this.
This link will take you to the site and you can respond via phone. And please, do so quickly!!
maybe a dumb question but i want to listen to how any cross fades or edits in my songs have worke d before i burn a cd using the Nero 5 .... is that possible to listen before i burn
Thanks for any help
Im just sharing a few links to websites were you can listen to your local radio stations/music at.
First one is my favorite for radio stations:
Second one is popular for listening to any music:
Playlist.com | Listen to Free Music Online - Free Music Streaming - Search music, find music, listen to music, & share music online
Third one is very simple, just type in what ever you want such as genre/artist. (Also available on Xbox360)
Listen to Free Personal Online Radio
Fourth and last one you have to sign up for, but it is worth it.
Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music
Some of you may know some of these already but i just wanted to share them with the people who didn't.
Good online radio resources, thanks!
I would add SomaFM to the list because it's one of my favorites...
I recently reset my computer to factory settings.
When i tried to go to my favorite online radio station to listen at first I got an error saying no plugin was installed so I installed the window's media player plugin, the station tried to play for half a second and now when I try I get nothing at all.
The URL is 105.9
Is there a different plugin I should be looking for? How can I tell what plugin the site requires?
How can I just find the streaming URL of a station so that I can load it directly into windows media player?
After resetting did you download all Windows Updates?http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f131/cant-listen-to-radio-after-factory-reset-665344.html
Currently I have 3 Temp monitor (BIOS included). Currently I have a E6550 processor, stock everything. When I play games it goes up to 70c (Core temp wise) and Im idling at 42-43(core temp). but on CPU cool 8.0.4 and BIO's im idling on 35+'s and full load at 50+'s. Subject is, which monitor is giving out the right temp?
Well, if you have 3 programs, find a situation where 2 of the programs produce the same values, and then I'd go with them. This is because all the programs read from the same temp probe, but some could stuff it up. BIOS is normally correct, but there could be a malfunction of some sort.
so when i had xp i could launch WMP with my speakers and change to output to my headphones. the music would play on the speakers and i could play a game on my headphones at the same time. now it changes the moment i switch default audio outputs.
You can specify within Winamp or other software to use a particular output that is different than default output. So both can work this way at the same time.
What you can't do is clone an output to be same as another output device. You'd need special hardware that handles that, like my spec.
I contacted a radio station to get a few audio clips and they allowed me to download them. Unfortunately, they are in *.rm format. My friend said something about decompressing them, but I'm not sure what he meant by that. I have to burn the audio clips onto CD for a few people, but I can only drop them into Nero if I make it a data cd. How can you listen to the *.rm format on a normal cd player?
I can't answer your question and it's probably because I HATE RealPlayer. Man it's the worst.
Sorry to interupt...just needed to get my 2 cents in.
I am using my mp3 player when I am not at home or doing sports. Plus I am a heavy user of Deezer where I have organized all my music. I know that there is a function to use deezer offline on a smartphone but there are multiple reasons (quality, bulkiness, battery) why I really don't want to use my smartphone on the go.
Is there any possibility that could allow me to use some of my deezer-music on my mp3 player (sony walkman, no internet connection)?
Would be happy for any hints
No. You need the app/program installed for the service to work. An mp3 player doesn't run software, it only reads/play specific audio format files.
I m looking for a really good explanation of UDP connections and Ports in particular how to send to a UDP port at a specified multicast address while listening to the same Or a better way to find other instances of a program running on other machines on the LAN I m working on a simple LAN based messenger program All it has to do is send a text-string to another computer on the same network that Send simultaneously alternative) (or UDP and Listen pops up a message though my ideal design goes far beyond that I have the UDP Listen and Send simultaneously (or alternative) vast majority of the core functionality sorted out including sending and receiving the messages However I can t get it to discover other computers on the home network that are running the same software All of my successful tests so far have involved manually inputting the name and IP of the destination machine to add it to the options list I don t think that my parents will be too happy if they have to discover my local IP before they can send me a come for dinner message My plan has been the following When a client wants to refresh its list it sends out a UDP broadcast or possibly multicast with its own details Messenger name and IP and an quot initial Hailing quot byte set All clients bind to the UDP broadcast address When a client gets a datagram it updates its own records with that IP-name combination If the initial byte is set it then sends out its own details on broadcast multicast without the initial byte or the cycle would just explode All running the software in range should get the initial datagram and respond to it whereupon the original sender will have the complete list However the program throws an error when it tries to send to the same multicast IP Port combination as it is listening to for hailing How would this kind of task typically be solved I ve tried looking for sample code but it all avoids this little hurdle mostly demonstrating everything on a loopback on the development computer nbsphttps://forums.techguy.org/threads/udp-listen-and-send-simultaneously-or-alternative.984644/
Is anyone else having a problem listening live to radio 1 I use this link and it just crashes firefox http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/radio1 Im using 3.1 beta 3 at the minute but when i revert back to the current firefox I still have the same problem
Works ok for me in Firefox, IE, Opera and Chrome. Can you play any other live stations in the iPlayer?http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f131/solved-listen-live-bbc-radio-1-a-371147.html
ok i am a sad sin player and i am sad because i through all of the sim boxes away. And now i cant play any of my games. can any body help me witout getting in trouble!!!
I'm looking for a simple audio software that records audio from a microphone (just like the Windows Sound Recorder for instance) and allows to listen to the recorded sound as it's being recorded, in real time, without the need to record, save and then listen. Could you help me out please?
Thanks a lot for any and all suggestions.
The free Audacity may fit the bill: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/
Hi Guys just sharing a website www.myradiomix.com is an exciting website I've tested today that allows you to record hundreds of radio channels from the Internet. All you have to do is to browse through the channels, find music that you like, and click on it. You will get more than 500+ radio channels with excellent sound. Don?t need to try another!http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f56/listen-live-tv-streaming-radio-channels-in-pc-364236.html
hey guys, i just wanted to know what multiplayer game would be best for me to play while i listen to audiobooks? i guess i need something with minimal text so i don't get confused.
thanks for any help!
I prefer FTL to be quite easy to play while listening.
Hi there,
This morning when i started up my computer i found that the small "volume" icon on my taskbar had a red cross by it and it said "no audio output is installed". I then removed my audio files through add/remove hardware which were then automatically reinstalled on reboot thanks to Vista.
My problem is my though i now receive sound through my laptop (built in speakers), when i plug in any headphones the audio still comes through the speakers and not through the headphones.
Any help on this matter would be appreciated.
I have a Toshiba Satellite A205-S764 Notebook with Vista.
Many thanks,
Looking for a program to listen & record my messages on my PC instead of my phone
I know I previously posted this thread BUT at this moment I cannot afford to buy another modem
Hello everyone
I'm partially paralysed( both my my hands ) & I would require a program that can do the same as a voice box of my phone company.
My Modem is below:
Agere Systems PCI-sv92pp Soft Modem is my modem
I have tried the following,Smart Phone Recorder version 2.4.61 & theres a bug, it does not work properly
Can anyone help me please
Thank you in advance
Pentium 4 -2.4 gig
500 mg ram memory
Using Firefox
80 gig hard disk
Microsoft Windows XP Pro
Hi folks today 127.0.0.1 Cygwin listen doesn't only on OpenSSH IP, actual on I setup Cygwin and OpenSSH on my rented server I following the usual direction and everything seemed to be fine I tested locally using ssh localhost und voila - connection login everything Cygwin OpenSSH doesn't listen on actual IP, only on 127.0.0.1 fine Then I tried to login from my laptop and got no connection I checked the firewall - and it was off Both the server provider s firewall and the local windows firewall were off I turned them on afterwards however Ok I thought let s connect locally so I tried ssh lt hostname gt and ssh lt server-ip gt On the server itself Could not connect I tried a lot of combinations changed the port used ListenAddress to explicitly bind to the local ip looked at hosts allow and hosts deny etc Actually one can see slight differences with netstat -a but the effect remains the same Using localhost and I can connect but Cygwin OpenSSH doesn't listen on actual IP, only on 127.0.0.1 not using the IP Server OS is Windows Web Server Any ideas Thanks for hints or any idea how I can debug Cygwin OpenSSH doesn't listen on actual IP, only on 127.0.0.1 this SSH debug mode shows no output so it really seems no connection gets established Regards JavaBird nbsp
Does the software have an option to change what ports it is listening on? Is their a check mark that you could of over looked that would cause it it only be listening on the loop back address?
Just recently I have not been able to listen to streaming radio. Any station. And I haven't been able to watch videos on news stations. Youtube works fine and hulu works fine. I don't know what is going on. I use Windows 7 and everything was fine until about a week ago. Please help! Thanx
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 188.8.131.52
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: AMD E-450 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, AMD64 Family 20 Model 2 Stepping 0
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 3817 Mb
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6320 Graphics, 256 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 461477 MB, Free - 416941 MB;
Motherboard: Acer, HMA71_BZ
Antivirus: Microsoft Security Essentials, Updated and Enabled
I'm connecting my laptop with w7 pro x64 to a digital player via lan
the computer doesnt ask me what kind of network it is? why? it names it unidentified so i cant share files to it
and why are the options from public advanced settings changing exactly like private setting?
i want sharing for private and it disabled in public, but if i set it on at private it switches itself on in public also
i messed with some registrys but i reverted it to what it was in the start, i think...
i changed somethig in services.msc and Local Security Policy editor, i changed it back.
my antivirus is security essentials and uac is set to never interrupt
So, I recently installed the Dell AC511 Soundbar, and got it work (I got the sound to come out of the soundbar). However, after I celebrated my technical victory of installation, I noticed that the sound was very wrong. Below is my list of issues that I am unable to fix:
1. It sounds like Sia is singing in a tunnel...very echo-y.
2. All of the audio mixing is backwards...Basically, I can hear all of the background music and singing and I can barely hear any of the main vocals.
So instead of hearing:
**Main lyrics/vocals of the song** (appropriate volume of background music and vocals)
I hear:
(BACKGROUND MUSIC AND VOCALS) **Tiny whisper of main lyrics/vocals**
Someone help me. I just want to listen to music using my headphones. My technical abilities don't extend much past plugging things in!
You cant use Cellphone or IPOD or IPAD etc phones in a 3.5mm stereo jack without an adapter to change from 4 connection to 3 connection.
If your hard drive makes noises like these and you are still able to access your files - backup immediately.
Failing hard drive sounds - Datacent.com - Datacent
Hi this is amercancritic I saw this in vistax64 this is awesome I am glad you posted here too, very nice it will help a lot of people.


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Russia in the Post-War World
By Admiral WILLIAM H. STANDLEY, U.S.N.R., Former United States Ambassador to Russia
Delivered at a dinner of the Society of the Plastics Industry, New York City, November 14, 1944
Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. XI, pp. 162, 174-178.
THE subject of my discussion tonight is "Russia in the Post-War World." In the course of my remarks, I shall endeavor to show how the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. A. in the immediate post-war future can be mutually helpful. This possibility should be of vital interest to the members of this convention, for the destiny of both the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. A. will be influenced by the progress and success of their industrial effort. Moreover, someone has said that the industrial future of the world is encompassed in steel, wood, and plastics.
I shall give you what I believe to be a realistic and fair picture, and my statements must in no way be assumed to be the opinions or views of any other Government individual or agency.
Opinions of responsible persons in our country regarding the U. S. S. R. and her people are almost as varied as the persons expressing them. There are a number of reasons for this. In the first place, there is a limited and controlled Russian press; there is strict censorship of news coming out of that country. Travel in Russia is restricted. The Russians themselves are very secretive and loath to discuss internal affairs with foreigners. Then, the U. S. S. R. has suffered much through the inaccuracy of many books by authors who may have spent much or little time there. Usually, such writers are prejudiced for or against, and considerable harm has been done to Russo-American industrial relations by these overstatements, whether in support of or against the Russian system. Wholesale condemnation is equally inaccurate and harmful as wholesale commendation.
I have personally observed much in the Russian scheme of things which, in my opinion, has improved the general standards of living of her people. On the other hand, I have read statements in books, periodicals, and pamphlets which I know from personal observation to be so extravagant as to be stamped almost wholly false. They may, and probably do, represent aims and ideals, but the realities in many cases fall far short of these imaginative pictures. Particularly is this true of statements regarding scientific research and development. Russian scientists have done much in their field to advance civilization and to alleviate the pain and trials of suffering humanity. Their work is known world-wide, and they do not need overstatements and propaganda to advertise it.
We are familiar with the achievements of such men as Peter Kapitza, the engineer in the Urals who developed a large-scale production method for hydrogen; Alexix Baikov, who obtained fertilizer from the remnants of burnt coal; Lysenko, the botanist who discovered a way of making plants ripen from two to six weeks sooner by subjecting the seeds to certain treatment—a process utilized in Siberia where the summers are too short for the full development of crops such as wheat—and with the achievements of Alexei Favorsky (synthetic rubber inventor), Postov (geneticist) and Professor Stepan B. Pavlenka (endocrinologist). These men are leaders in their fields and need no eulogy.
An illustration of the tendency to idealize Soviet progress, and of the facility with which commentators can paint a picture far more glowing than the reality is the following example of applied industrial technique—a new method of mining. In 1881, Professor Ramsay suggested a means by which coal could be turned into gas as it lay in the unhewn seams of the earth. Lenin knew of Ramsay's method and conceived it, in his way, as one which might liberate the labor of miners through reduction of their working hours and render their work more hygienic. In 1931, experiments began in Soviet Russia; in 1938, gas from underground gasification had been supplied to the boiler furnaces of a chemical coking plant; by 1939, the Gorlovka station in the Don-bas was supplying 15,000 cubic metres of gas an hour. Since then, its output has increased, and a plant at Lisichank has been designed to supply 100,000 cubic metres an hour.
The process is as follows: A shaft, driven above the seam, at the far end of the coal to be operated on, admits air to a controlled fire within the shaft. This fire transforms the coal into a gas, which finds its way along a second shaft driven below the coal seam, to emerge finally through its outlet on the surface. Thus, we have a more or less U-shaped construction, shafts being cross-connected underground through the coal vein.
The technical problems in the application of this principle, as for instance the proportion of air and oxygen needed to produce gas of different qualities, some suitable for lighting and some for heat and power, have been overcome. And the writer continues: (I quote) "Mining operations and the transport of coal are proportionately eliminated, whilst the cost of gas has been cut by fifty per cent. Workers are freed from dangerous tasks. Valuable national material is economized. Labour is saved. Skies grow cleaner and the air purer. Health improves."
From this description, one might believe that the process had become common practice and that the mining of coal was a lost art. As a matter of fact, the method is very limited in its application and the vast quantity of coal used is still mined in the old orthodox way.
Although we have not had observers at the front, we donot lack ample evidence of the effectiveness of the Red Army and the war production which backs it. I myself have visited the aircraft factories in Moscow and Kuibyshev, and I know these factories are turning out aircraft. I have visited the machine shops at Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk, and I know these shops are producing tanks and guns. I have visited the precision shops and observed Russian women and girls turning out the most delicate instruments. I have visited the steel plant and strip mills at Magnitogorsk, where the Blast and Martin furnaces are producing thousands of tons of steel each day. I have visited the State farms and the collective farms and have observed their progress from planting to fruition.
I have flown over much of the Russian country from the Caspian to Moscow, to the Urals, and to the Tashkent Country, and have observed the effectiveness of Soviet efforts in agriculture. I have visited the schools, the nurseries, the orphan homes, and observed their care of the children and their efforts toward education. I have attended their operas, their ballets, their movies, their concerts, and their galleries.
The Russians have done and are doing much in all these fields, but in most of them there is still much to be done. No one realizes this better than the Russians themselves. It is possible that to frequent overstatements can be ascribed the hesitancy on the part of the Russians to let visitors see how short of perfection they really are—for the Russians are a proud people.
They are justly proud to reveal the successful fruits of their planning and labor, however, and I shall illustrate this by describing a representative collective farm, which at the same time will give you some idea of Soviet agrarian economy, before proceeding to the larger subjects and industrial development and potentialities.
Collective Farm
In the summer of 1943, I visited a collective farm, specializing in grain production. It is called "Pobeda," meaning "Victory", and is located near the town of Dmitrov, about 70 kilometers due north of Moscow.
The town officials accompanied us to the farm. There the farm officials—the president, the agronomist (who, incidentally, was a young woman) and others—greeted us. The president explained the objectives, the organization, and the procedure of the farm. This, by the way, is normal practice in the Soviet Union, whether on a collective farm or a State farm or in a factory.
The farm had been organized in 1929 from 80 homesteads, comprising 1,224 acres, of which more than half were under plow, the rest in meadows and pasture land. Before the war, the farm work was done by 224 workers, of whom 120 had since gone to the front, leaving 100 women and 24 older men to carry on farm operations. Ordinarily, in time of peace, the women performed only the lighter tasks and usually took afternoons off for work about the homestead. The Machine Tractor Stations do half of the plowing, seeding and harvesting.
The collective farm worker's compensation is based on his ability to produce and not on the time involved. A unit of work in any operation—whether it be cutting hay or picking blackberries—is prescribed, for which there is a unit of compensation. The collective farm worker receives this unit of compensation for the unit of work, whether he performs it in an hour or in a week, and at the end of the year he is paid accordingly. The farmers themselves by mutual agreement fix the "norm"—the unit of work—and the unit of compensation.
On this collective farm, the unit of compensation—or "trudo-dyen" as they call it—was composed of 200 grams of grain, 60 grams of potatoes, 3 1/2 kilograms of vegetables, 4 kilograms of hay, 5 kilograms of straw, and 3 roubles cash.
The quantity of grain which goes to make up the "trudodyen" in any one year is determined as follows: First, grain is set aside for seed; second, the compulsory delivery of grain to the Government at a fixed price is made; third, payment is made to the Machine Tractor Station for its work; fourth, a reserve is set aside against crop failure; fifth, a quantity is set aside for the pension and insurance fund. The grain remaining is apportioned according to the total number of work "norms" performed by the members of the collective farm labor.
The ownership and use of private property in the Soviet Union is more extensive than is generally believed. This does not apply, of course, to land or productive equipment, but on the collective farms, each household occupies a small plot of land which it cultivates independently of farm operations. It may have its own livestock and it is entitled to communal pasturage. The individual farmer pays the government land tax on his land, and he can sell the produce or the unconsumed surplus of his day wages to whomsoever he pleases for whatever price he can obtain.
The collective land of the farms is divided into sections under the care of brigades, and these sections carry on competition with each other. This leads me to emphasize the great impulse which, second to the Russians' love of their own soil and their faith in their land and its people, motivates them in their extraordinary job of producing for the war. This impulse is the principle of competition, both individually and by groups, which is practiced at every stage of Russian life—on the farms and in the factories.
Each collective farm and each manufacturing plant compete with every other one in a given area, but also groups within the larger units vie with each other in surpassing production quotas. So prevalent is the spirit and practice of competition that one might say all Russia is engaged in a perpetual contest, like one of our Bond Drives. Such a zealous spirit bodes well for Russia's industrial development in future.
Industrial Picture
Before stressing our post-war opportunities with the U. S. S. R., I should like to convey to you a very general idea of her industrial potentialities and mention briefly my personal observations. Each of you has an over-all picture of Soviet wealth and industry. Perhaps many of you have made professional studies of this subject.
You are generally familiar with the vast, frozen stretches of tundra or barren wilderness in the far north, and with the taiga or fir forest lands. The latter compose nearly half the coniferous forests of the earth—1,900,000 square miles of them—which yield an endless supply of pine, fir, spruce, and larch, and also furs such as ermine and sable. To the south of these are mixed forests, while still further south are the rolling, treeless steppes, of great fertility. At the far south, Russia touches the sub-tropical zone, from the extreme west to the shores of the Caspian and thence eastward across the sandy area of Kara-Kum and Kizil-Kum to the central Asiatic oases of rice and cotton fields, vineyards, and orchards.
Looking at the Soviet Union from west to east, we find a territory divided by the Urals, 2,000 miles from the Polish border—European Russia to the west of these mountains, and Asiatic Russia, formerly undeveloped, to the east.
The Soviet authorities have made a survey and inventory of their national wealth and resources. This survey has been complete and thorough. Soviet geological research has
extended far into the Arctic for minerals—and found asbestos in Novaya Zemlya, non-ferrous metals on Vaigach Island, coal in Fridjof Nansen's Land, and mica and oil on the Taimir Peninsula. Apatite and nepheline have been discovered in quantities on the Kola Peninsula, north of the Arctic Circle. And nickel has been discovered here, as well as in the Urals.
As you know, 12 per cent of the world's gold is yielded by Russia, from the Vitim-Lena and Aldan fields of Eastern Siberia, and a lesser amount from the Urals. Oil has been found from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea. In addition, these surveys show a number of localities where there is a concentration of resources. For example, agriculture is centered in Eastern Russia. The area Leningrad, the Kama and Volga River valleys, and the Ukraine is the granary of Soviet Russia, though there is an agricultural belt in Central Russia and on the Amur River far to the eastward, and irrigation projects in Soviet Central Asia give promise of extensive future development here in textiles and fruit.
The mineral concentration is found chiefly in the Donetz Basin, the Urals, Novosibirsk, the Kuznets Basin, the Caucasus Mountain, and in Soviet Central Asia. In these areas are to be found in abundance, to a greater or less degree, nickel, coal, iron ore, bauxite, copper, chrome, and manganese.
Russia's petroleum output is second to that of the U. S. and over 10 per cent of the world's supply. Eighty-five per cent of her petroleum comes from the Batum and Baku fields in the Caucasus and the balance chiefly from Grozny, Maikop, Emba, Ural, and Central Asian Fields. Beyond Eastern Siberia lies Yakutsk, an immense area as yet undeveloped.
In addition to the above resources, there are great hydroelectric potentialities. The Dnieper Dam was already in operation but was partially destroyed and rendered inoperative by the Russians to prevent its use by the Germans. However, it is now being repaired. There are projects for power stations at the Samara Bend on the Volga and for the use of the fall of the Aangara, Yenesei, and other rivers of the North to produce electricity for the Far Eastern Territories of the Soviet Union. However, except for the Dneiper Dam, none of these projects have gone beyond plans and dreams.
What science found, industry set about to exploit and, while the surveys have been exhaustive, we must accept the estimates with caution.
As previously stated, I have flown over much of the country not occupied by the Germans, from the Caspian to Moscow, to the Urals and to the Tashkent area. I have visited and personally observed the factories at Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk and the steel plants at Magnitogorsk. I have visited the Emba oil fields. There is abundant evidence that Russia possesses a wealth of resources—next to the United States, she is the most nearly self-supporting country in the world—but in what quantity is yet to be determined.
I also found confirmation of industrial development, but in no place did I find such extensive development as has been asserted. We do know, however, that Russia has created a great war machine. What she can do in peacetime production is still to be proven, for she has never directed all her efforts to this task.
After the revolution of 1917, when the condition of the Russian people was little improved, except mentally—with much hope in plans for better living as a whole, with faith and confidence in a future whose benefits all would share, and thus with great impetus to the people's work and striving—security was given first priority. Efficient industrialization for war was the primary objective, improved livingstandard the ultimate goal.
Russia was beset from within and without. The weakness coincident with peacetime concentration on domestic effort could not be afforded by the revolutionary state at the outset. And Russia's plans for her domestic industrialization, with its goals of improved living conditions, could not develop freely and fully until threat from the outside and enemies within were eliminated.
The everyday needs of the people were, if not forgotten, given a secondary place. The Russians were quite without what we have come to consider necessities, in the quality and quantity we consider necessary. The stores were starved for streamlined modernity in all its phases. The few importations of modern inventions, like refrigerators, automobiles, trucks, articles of personal adornment, (such as up-to-date dresses, silk stockings, stylish shoes, etc, which appeal to the vanity and pride of both sexes—for these people are human) made them realize that such necessities and luxuries do exist and are enjoyed more or less generally by other people and particularly by the American people.
Prior to the outbreak of the present war and the attack by Germany on Poland, the Soviet Government had completed a considerable amount of industrialization, as a result of which as early as 1927 the Russian people had begun to receive some benefits in the way of consumers' goods and to realize that the promises of their Government were on the way to being materialized. The standards of living of the masses had already been somewhat improved. And then came the war.
Marshal Stalin has said that, when he signed up with Germany in 1939, he knew that the Red Army was the eventual target of the German war machine, and events bear out the fact that he lost no time in taking positive action. From that moment, every effort was directed toward preparation for war. Factories and industries of every kind were turned to war production. Gains which had been made in standards of living were lost.
Actually, during this war, which has demanded from the Russian people untold hardships and suffering, sacrifice inconceivable to us here, consumer goods of every category have almost entirely disappeared. Outwardly, the country and everything in it is in a bad state of preservation. Repairs, upkeep, and maintenance, such as we know them, are almost non-existent. Many buildings and structures are obsolete and in need of repairs. Inadequate water services and lighting, disorganized and overloaded transportation, and lack of essential facilities are encountered everywhere. There is scarcity of farm machinery and utensils. Industry and agriculture have been entirely geared to sustaining the military power, and the evacuation resulting from German occupation has fully served to increase the difficulties of living.
But any dissatisfaction and grumbling which might have ensued were dissipated and replaced by a patriotic fervor, combined with confidence in their leaders, which has resulted in a stupendous war machine. Every man, woman, and youth in the Soviet Union has demonstrated a self-sacrificing devotion, a tenacity and power of resistance which the world hardly imagined possible. This is the guiding spirit and driving power which motivates the entire country—the Government, the military, and the people behind the lines—and which has resulted in the success of our Soviet Ally. But this complete unity of purpose, this magnificent spirit and stubborn fortitude in the face of what we should call insupportable privations—while it has brought the Russians victory—leaves them with a peacetime task of reconstruction which is monumental.
The objective of the Soviet Government, headed by Marshal Stalin, is to raise the standards of living of the Russian people. Once victory is finally attained and the stimulus of war is removed, these people will want and expect immediate action, and Mr. Stalin himself will want to satisfy his people and proceed at once toward the fulfillment of his mission, but he will be faced with a terrific problem. He has an enormous military machine and an industry geared to supplying that machine. The industrialization of his country has been stopped by the war effort, and before he can satisfy the hopes of his people he must demobilize the military and convert his industries, factories, and efforts to peacetime needs. But here again priority of effort must be given to removing and replacing the ravages of war, and for a considerable period of time his existing industries will be fully employed in replacing obsolete and worn out structures and in repairing and improving her basic utilities, such as transports, communications, power, housing, and other essential services and facilities, in supplying farm machinery and utensils, and in the manufacture of heavy machinery needed to continue the industrialization of his country. Even with the immediate demobilization of the military there will be considerable delay in proceeding with the problem of relieving the conditions of the Russian people. Given time, the problem can be solved, but time will not wait and the Russian people will become impatient at delay. Therefore, Russia will need help to tide her over the conversion period. This aid must continue for some time, but will cease when Russia can get her industry adjusted and her economy adapted to full peacetime needs. Marshal Stalin knows this. He knows he needs help and he and the Russians are looking to America for this help.
Our plastic industries in particular can provide those products which are greatly desired and acutely needed by Russia, products which would relieve the terrible pressure now upon the Russian people for the attainment of the barest necessities in the way of clothing and housing, machinery, and other equipment, to enable them to carry on a normal existence. The extent to which such products could be utilized there is almost incredible, when we take into consideration the products' variety as well as the Russians' enormous needs.
This all-embracing field of plastic production, which provides building materials as well as the most delicate materials for clothing, which provides essential material in our mechanical construction and electrical industries, which provides the material of which airplanes are made, as well as composition for the tiniest ornaments, which provides furniture, artificial leather, toothbrushes, and phonograph records—to outline only roughly its limits—is a field from which Russia will buy highly developed products, consumer goods for which she is starving and which her own industry will not be able to provide her for many years.
During the banquet at the Teheran conference in December of last year, Marshal Stalin gave a toast. This toast was, "Without American machines, the United Nations could never have won the war."
He is equally aware that, without American products, the Soviet Union will not be able to realize her peacetime goals. She will not achieve the living standard which is her objective. She will not become a flourishing country—one which has no more need for the overstatements of idealists and for misrepresentation of fact—because she is woefully impoverished now in all that comprises our general living standard.
Russia is the largest country in the world with a comparatively small density of population. She is, next to the U.S.A., the most nearly self-sustaining in raw materials of any country, but she lacks the technical skill and the machinery with which to make the best and immediate use of these raw materials, some of which she has in excess of her own needs. We have the technical skill and the machinery, and we need certain of her raw materials.
Here in our own country the war has also resulted in a general upsetting of the peacetime efforts and industry is geared to war production. But we have an economy which has been comparatively little disturbed by the war effort, an abundance of consumer goods as compared with Russia, and services in good state of preservation. Demobilization will return to our labor market millions of men and women who have been engaged in war activity, and we may be confronted by an unemployment condition which could be serious. For a short time, we can absorb some of the surplus labor in production of consumer goods and heavy machinery, but we cannot depend on this activity indefinitely.
With our war experience and with full-time employment, we can supply in one month after adequate reconversion enough consumer goods of nearly every category to meet the needs of our own people for a year or longer. It is in this situation that we turn to Russia as well as others. We should be able to supply Russia at once with consumer goods and thus help her and, at the same time, help solve our own unemployment problem during the conversion period. On both sides, this outlet for our products will be most welcome.
But to accomplish this we must assume two important premises. First, that Russia's security is vital to her and that she cannot turn to industrialization and development of her raw material resources unless she has that security. The accomplishment of her ultimate goal of improved living conditions not only requires a return to peace status, but an extended continuance of that status. Hence, while the immediate, primary objective is winning the war, the second objective is providing for security which will insure an extended period of peace. Herein lies the motivating intention and desire of Marshal Stalin. This will enable him to demobilize his military forces in order to continue industrialization and development. And only then will he be upon the direct road to the improvement of the living standard.
I should like to mention here, by way of an aside, that consideration of the foregoing sequence and plan will account for the seeming vagaries of the Soviet Government, and indicate the absolute necessity for Russia's post-war cooperation with the other three Great Powers. No other course is consistent with the announced purpose of the Soviet program. After victory, security is their next consideration. Unless a world organization is set up which will provide them with real security, they will have to proceed on their own to provide it.
The second premise which we must assume in our relations with the Soviet Union in future is that the Russian conception of economy excludes the profit system. We cannot expect great profits in our negotiations with the Russian market. The market itself will be of profit to us assisting in the handling of our own employment problems after the war and lending an impetus to our industry, which might otherwise lag dangerously in that period.
Again, particularly in the realm of plastics, the market or demand itself is of profit, since the development of these industries appears to have run immediately behind the requirement for their existence, and the development of organic chemistry through these industries seems limitless. Progress in this remarkable field may yet be in its early stages.
I feel confident that we are on the threshold of a post-war period of collaboration in the fullest sense of the word. Andthe ties which we have forged in battle will be transformed into even closer unity of effort and cooperation in peace. The Anglo-Soviet Treaty and the Soviet-American Agreement of last May are firm foundation for the development of such collaboration. These agreements were signed in battle and are being strengthened by the ever-increasing deliveries of war materials to the U.S.S.R. I am confident Marshal Stalin will agree that, when victory is finally won, it will be our duty to transform this fighting alliance into a concordat dedicated to peacetime construction and to the betterment of the commonweal.
The U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. can, within certain limits, be of assistance to each other in their post-war requirements and abilities, and will continue in that status for quite a period of time. I am sure that, by the end of this period, we shall have evolved plans to stand on our own feet and to provide useful employment for all our people.
In conclusion, I would like to leave this parting thought. We are fighting a war to prevent an ideology contrary to our own being forced down our throat through force of arms. As a united people we are winning this war. When the war is over and we return to normalcy, we will be in peaceful competition with various world orders, some of which are just as opposite to our own as the one we are now waging war against. As a united people we can also win this competition with labor, industry, agriculture, Government, and the consumers united. We need not fear competition in the economic field. But unless we have that united effort, if labor and industry and Government and agriculture and the consumers persist in going their separate and different ways, we have lost this competition before we start.


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November 5, 2010
JACOBO LEVY, PLAINTIFF,v.JP MORGAN CHASE, DEFENDANT.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Hon. Dana M. Sabraw United States District Judge
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT [Doc. 12]
Pending before this Court is Defendant JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.'s motion to dismiss Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint. For the reasons stated below, Defendant's motion is granted.
Plaintiff entered into a loan for the refinance of a residence located at 2740-2748 Massachusetts, Lemon Grove, CA 91945. (First Amended Complaint ("FAC") at 1.) The loan was secured by a Deed of Trust. (RJN Ex. 1.)*fn1 Plaintiff subsequently failed to make the necessary loan payments and a Notice of Default was recorded on February 11, 2010. (RNJ Ex. 4.) A Notice of Trustee's Sale was recorded on May 19, 2010. (RJN Ex. 5.) Plaintiff filed a Complaint in this action on July 19, 2010 and filed a First Amended Complaint (erroneously labeled "Amended Original Petition") on August 9, 2010. (Docs. 1, 7.) In the FAC, Plaintiff states claims for unjust enrichment, quiet title, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, fraud, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, violation of the Truth in Lending Act ("TILA"), intentional infliction of emotional distress, conspiracy, violation of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act ("RESPA"), and unfair business practices - 15 U.S.C. § 45. On August 30, 2010, Defendant filed the instant motion to dismiss Plaintiff's FAC. (Doc. 12.) Plaintiff failed to file an opposition to the motion to dismiss and Defendant filed a reply. (Doc. 14.)
A party may move to dismiss a claim under Rule 12(b)(6) if the claimant fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6). The Federal Rules require a pleading to include a "short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief." Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2). The Supreme Court, however, recently established a more stringent standard of review for pleadings in the context of 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss. See Ashcroft v. Iqbal, ___ U.S. ___, 129 S.Ct. 1937 (2009); Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007). To survive a motion to dismiss under this new standard, "a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.'" Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. at 1949 (quoting Twombly, 550 U.S. at 570). "A claim has facial plausibility when the plaintiff pleads factual content that allows the court to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged." Id. (citing Twombly, 550 U.S. at 556). "Determining whether a complaint states a plausible claim for relief will . . . be a context-specific task that requires the reviewing court to draw on its judicial experience and common sense." Id. at 1950 (citing Iqbal v. Hasty, 490 F.3d 143, 157-58 (2d Cir. 2007)).
Plaintiff failed to oppose Defendant's motion to dismiss the FAC. Under United States District Court, Southern District of California Local Rule 7.1.f.3.c, "[i]f an opposing party fails to file the papers in the manner required by Civil Local Rule 7.1.e.2., that failure may constitute a consent to the granting of a motion or other request for ruling by the court." Accordingly, the Court finds Plaintiff's failure to file an opposition to Defendant's motion to dismiss constitutes his consent to the granting of the motion. Nonetheless, the Court briefly addresses the merits of Defendant's motion to dismiss and the adequacy of Plaintiff's FAC.
As an initial matter, Plaintiff does not sufficiently identify the loan at issue. He states he "entered into a consumer contract for the refinance of a primary residence located at 2740-2748 Massachusetts[,] Lemon Grove[,] Ca 91945" and references "a 565,000.00 note," but does not provide any further information as to the parties involved or the date the loan closed. (FAC at 1, 4.) Plaintiff further fails to allege the role Defendant played or the interest Defendant has in the subject loan.
A. Unjust Enrichment
Unjust enrichment is not itself an independent claim for relief. McKell v. Washington Mut., Inc., 142 Cal. App. 4th 1457, 1490 (2006).The Court therefore construes Plaintiff's purported claim for unjust enrichment as an attempt to plead a claim for relief giving rise to a right of restitution. A party is required to make restitution "if he or she is unjustly enriched at the expense of another. A person is enriched if the person receives a benefit at another's expense." McBride v. Boughton, 123 Cal. App. 4th 379, 389 (2004) (citations and quotations omitted). Plaintiff fails, however, to adequately plead facts showing that any enrichment of Defendant was unjust as to him.
B. Quiet Title
To state a claim to quiet title, the complaint must be verified and a plaintiff must include a description of the subject property, the title of the plaintiff as to which determination is sought and the basis of the title, the claims adverse to the title, the date as of which the determination is sought, and a prayer for determination of the title against the adverse claims. Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 761.020. Aside ...
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Several months ago, I bought a batch of song-poem and related items, all of which have song-poet Enza Cooper as the common thread. These items contained four ten-inch Acetates, which, being a different size than most of the records I buy, ended up in a different spot than virtually everything in my collection, and sat, sort of forgotten, for nearly a year. They are all one sided, and came in record sleeves with the name of the songs on each of them.
I came across them while looking for something else, and they are a revelation. While these four records have long been documented on the AS/PMA website, I don't believe they've ever been shared on line or among collectors.
These four records make up more than half of the documented (on AS/PMA) records on the Chapel Recording Company, one of Ted Rosen's song-poem mills before he settled on the Halmark (AKA Hallmark) label in the late 1960's.
What I find most fascinating about these records is that, already by this point, Rosen was employing the same backing tracks that were used ad nauseam during the Halmark years. And while these records suffer the higher level of noise often heard on acetates, it strikes me that the backing tracks actually sound a little cleaner and clearer than on many Halmark releases. Perhaps he hadn't worn out those tapes at this point, and by 1975, had worn them out enough that they were in poorer condition?
On the other hand, what is with the vocals on these records? They sound like they're being sung through a megaphone, particularly in the second track featured.
First up is the clunky-titled "Please Stuff This Envelope (With Kisses)", with a backing track that any Halmark fan will recognize immediately.
Even more familiar will be the backing track to "Tell me of His Love", with the aforementioned vocal which sounds like it was recorded over a phone receiver. See below the label scan for a fun postscript.
Along with these records came the following letter, sent to the song-poet, from Ted Rosen himself. This letter is quoted in its entirety at the AS/PMA website, but it's fun to see it, anyway. The person I bought these records from called this a "nice" letter, but in reality it's another play for more $$ from the song-poet. He claims to have added, at his own expense, a chorus of ten singers to her recording session. It's up to her to pay the extra $29.50, of course, but he did spring for them.
Only he didn't. The singers were already there, along with the rest of the track that he'd be using over and over again, for full profit and no further cost, for God knows how many more years.
Part two, featuring the other two records, will follow in a few days.