Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Someone is not organized

A few days ago I was searching for podcasts I could download to my PDA. I ran across the Yahoo Podcasts site. The site said I would need to download Yahoo Music Engine in order to move the podcasts to my PDA. So I downloaded and installed Yahoo Music Engine. After rebooting, I started up Yahoo Music Engine and was prompted that there was an upgrade that I had to install first. So I went through the process again. After rebooting this time, I was prompted that Yahoo Music Engine had been changed to Yahoo Music Jukebox and I would have to install that first. So I went through the process a third time. After rebooting once more (this was getting old) I was prompted that there was an upgrade to Yahoo Music Jukebox that I would have to install first. So it took a fourth download and reboot, which by now had wasted a lot of my time. By now I am thinking I don't even want to use the program. Fortunately I had blogs to read on my laptop while I waited for this 4-step process on my desktop. So it wasn't a total waste of time.

Here's my question: why couldn't the initial link to the Yahoo Music Engine have taken me directly to the fourth download which was the one they claim I really needed? That would have saved me a lot of time and frustration. A little bit of organization here would help a great deal.

What's really sad is that a notice at the top of the Yahoo podcast site says it is closing down on Oct. 31. I see no explanation given, just a note: "Yahoo! apologizes deeply, but we will be closing down the Podcasts site on Oct. 31, 2007." It appears someone's disorganization wasted a lot of my time, and all for nothing!

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