Newbie needs help

[jhpen]

Hello all,

I probably never should have gotten into this, since I'm I'm a long-time PC user and fairly new to Mac. I'm also new to Ogg Vorbis. But I bought a Sansa Fuze, so I downloaded Ogg Drop and wanted a desktop player: thus, VLC. But I had all kinds of trouble with it, so I decided to trash it. Trouble with that is that I got an "error 61" message, which I don't understand. So I've got a program which frustrates me, and I can't get rid of it. Any ideas about "error 61"?

Thanks,
JP

[munkymorgy]

New Operating Systems take a little bit of time getting use to I am sure you will start to enjoy the Mac OS X in a month or so.

It would be nice if you could post some feedback as the problems/fustrations you were having with VLC that way people are aware of the user difficulties. Were you using the stable 0.8.6 or latest 0.9.x version?

When you tried sending it to the trash had you stopped it playing. Have you tried quitting/force quitting the application before trying to delete it.
To quit bring a VLC window to the front and option-q. To force quit you can select the apple icon in the top left of the screen and open the force quit window then select VLC and hit force quit.

Then try moving it to the trash.

This apple support page list the error codes but 61 is not there was it -61
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2088

Hope this helps
Morgy

[jhpen]

Thanks Morgy,

I've quit the program, and I'm not quite that new to OS Leopard. I followed your link to the Mac help page, and there was a list of error messages, but error 61 wasn't on the list, so I'm still stumped. The problems I encountered with VLC were too numerous to go through, but I'll mention a few. When I right clicked and chose "information," to enter the names and authors of songs--symphonies in my case, since I'm a classical lover--I did it after recording the music. The program put the names and authors anywhere it chose, not with the proper selections. So I had to delete selections, re-record them one-by-one and enter names and authors as I recorded. That got old, fast. Then, I saved a whole Symphony as a playlist. The program saved each movement of the Symphony as a separate playlist! I can't use that. There may be a fix for that, but it's not intuitive, and I couldn't figure it out.

JP

[munkymorgy]

I noticed that 61 was not on the list but there links at the bottom that did list the -61 error
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1618

I only use VLC as a playback program so have no idea about using it for recording, editing tags etc.

I normally use MAX for archiving my CDs
http://sbooth.org/Max/

Often I think that needs of classical music get forgotten when it comes to tagging support. most people are happy with artist, album, track name and year.
As far as I am aware classical is quite different requiring composer, composition year among others. Sorry to here that VLC has not met your requirements I hope you find something soon.

Do you still have trouble deleting the VLC.app?
have you tried doing it from the terminal [/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app]
cd /Applications/
rm VLC.app

Morgy

[jhpen]

Hi Morgy,

Thank you for hanging with me. I take it then that the problem is inherent with VLC and there's no fix. It's not the 1st time being a classical musical fan has caused me difficulty, but I'm happy to live with it. The rewards compensate. In this case, I've spent the best part of two days looking for an Ogg Vorbis player (free) for Mac that fits my needs only to end up back with iTunes and MP3s. Now, to your suggestion.... I followed Applications/Utilities/Terminal; (this is new to me). When I double click on Terminal, I get a window with a string of characters, ending with my name and a $. What next?

Thanks again,
JP

[madmax_2069]

Hi Morgy,

Thank you for hanging with me. I take it then that the problem is inherent with VLC and there's no fix. It's not the 1st time being a classical musical fan has caused me difficulty, but I'm happy to live with it. The rewards compensate. In this case, I've spent the best part of two days looking for an Ogg Vorbis player (free) for Mac that fits my needs only to end up back with iTunes and MP3s. Now, to your suggestion.... I followed Applications/Utilities/Terminal; (this is new to me). When I double click on Terminal, I get a window with a string of characters, ending with my name and a $. What next?

Thanks again,
JP

when terminal is open you type cd /Applications/ (press return/enter, cd means Change Directory) then you type
rm VLC.app (press return/enter, rm means Remove) this removes VLC from your system.