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Ronius reported a problem in Sony on April 29, 2009 16:41:

When will Sony listen on Get Satisfaction?

There is a massive communnity of people willing to help with problems and suggest ideas for Sony's Products, in particular (but not limited to!) the PS3.

However, none of the posts (at least in the PS3 or PSP sections) have ANY replies from anyone at Sony.

This year will be a make or break year for their PS3 console, which I believe could well cause massive problems for Sony if they don't get it right. Which is a shame, as I have been loyal to Sony product range for the past 12 years. Which is about half of my life.

PLEASE, listen to your loyal customers on this valuable site. Even better, promote it as your primary customer support method. The open discussion of problems, solutions, ideas, and even PRAISE for products will do you wonders in this community/"Web 2.0" internet age.

Thanks in advance.

Ronius started following the question "It sounds so cool....if you aren't worried about 'Big Brother'" in Radical Software Ltd.

Ronius started following the idea "Scrobble tracks on PS3" in Sony.

Ronius started following the problem "Playstation 3 fails immediately after warranty expires." in Sony.

Ronius reported a problem in Sony on January 28, 2009 20:03:

"Life with Playstation" can't shut down properly; forces the console to restart

Whenever I close Life with Playstation, it seems the PS3 can't close it and forces a reboot with a beep. Only a minor niggle really but not sure if it's doing any harm to my beloved device or not.

Ronius replied on January 28, 2009 19:53 to the problem "When will my ps3 be ps2 compatible?" in Sony:

That's true... linux on ps3 has no graphics card support (without making changes to the operating system anyway) and it runs very slowly as it's running underneath Sony's OS... So I'm guessing the ps2 emulator won't work at a playable rate?

Either way, there is talk that sony wants to bring downloadable ps2 games to the PSN... so please sony add on to that backward compatibility for the PS2!!

Ronius reported a problem in Sony on January 02, 2009 02:51:

When will my ps3 be ps2 compatible?

I was shocked to find out that my ps3 was NOT compatible with ps2 games- something that surprised me considering the extensive backwards compatibility for ps1. It is bad enough that the emotion engine was taken out of the ps3 (I don't think the UK even had a version with the emotion engine), but absolutely appalling that there is not even an attempt at putting ps2 support in it, even if it was patchy at best.

I would really like to see either ps2 support or even an external ps2 emulator to play my ps2 games with. Surely you could at least take an open source emulator such as pcsx2 and patch it up a bit to work on ps3? I am a fiercely loyal playstation follower since I first bought a Playstation more than 10 years ago, but lack of support for the games I still play most and prohibitive pricing for most games has bought my loyality into question.

Ronius started following the problem "Sony Customer support, is it always this bad?" in Sony.

Ronius started following the problem "Restore canonical URLs for iPlayer programme pages" in BBC.

Ronius gave praise in Songbird on November 26, 2008 00:54:

Gapless playback!

I don't know if it was my imagination, but I was just playing "OK Computer" in Songbird and noticed there was no gap between the tracks (as the first track kind of leads into the second).

I'm running the nightly build 862 on windows XP. And no, it wasn't my imagination! It happened again!!

I've been going between Foobar2000 and Songbird the last few months, but this feature has made me certain: Songbird is now my primary music player!

Congratulations, and can't wait to see what comes next.

Ronius replied on November 25, 2008 20:01 to the problem "Can't see add ons, downloads or updates (Minefield)" in Mozilla:

Thanks for that, thought it'd be worth mentioning. It's not really causing me any problems

Ronius reported a problem in Mozilla on November 25, 2008 19:28:

Can't see add ons, downloads or updates (Minefield)

I go to look at my addons or try to update and it's blank. This includes the extensions, languages, updates, plugins tabs, as well as the "check for updates" window and the "downloads" window.

And yes, I definitely have add-ons/downloads, and have tried to update!

I am running on Windows XP SP 3 with Minefield3.1b2pre

If there's any way I can help I'll be glad to!

Ronius replied on November 25, 2008 17:59 to the problem "Songs Skipping" in Songbird:

After disabling the concert plugin I've not had the problem anymore.

Ronius replied on November 25, 2008 17:33 to the problem "Songs Skipping" in Songbird:

I am having the same problem. Here is what my error console is saying:

Error: SQLite compile step:
SELECT count(*) FROM playing_at JOIN artists on artistid=artists.ROWID JOIN concerts on concertid=concerts.id WHERE artists.name = 'Thrice'AND concerts.timestamp > 1227634126
caused the error
no such table: playing_at

Error: GStreamer error: Could not decode stream. Additional information: gstflacdec.c(769): gst_flac_dec_error_callback (): /player/uridecodebin10/decodebin210/flacdec5:
CRC mismatch (2)

Error: SQLite compile step:
SELECT count(*) FROM playing_at JOIN artists on artistid=artists.ROWID JOIN concerts on concertid=concerts.id WHERE artists.name = 'Gorillaz'AND concerts.timestamp > 1227634123
caused the error
no such table: playing_at

I'm running build 862 on windows xp SP 3.

About to stop the concerts add on as it looks like that's causing problems, I'll edit and let you know my findings.

Ronius started following the problem "Songs Skipping" in Songbird.

Ronius marked one of stevel's replies in Songbird as useful. stevel replied to the problem "Last.fm integration has ceased to function".

Ronius replied on November 25, 2008 16:19 to the problem "Last.fm integration has ceased to function" in Songbird:

Just confirming I had this problem, and it was solved by installing the last.fm nightly.

Curiously, installing the nightly broke the last.fm add on in Songbird 0.7.0 as well.

Ronius started following the problem "Last.fm integration has ceased to function" in Songbird.