Is anyone else having "Rock-related" technical glitches with Answers?

I'm having some issues too, every now and then when I click on a page it tells me that I'm 'forbidden' to go there, haha. It loads the page after I click "Refresh" though.

I usually use iTunes, but for the hard to find songs/albums that aren't on there I go with Ares or BitTorrent.

Happy Tuesday Sookie!

No, hmmm. Everything seems fine here technical wise.

edit: I'm thinking maybe yesterday, I noticed some of the avatars wouldn't load when I went into a question, but today, everything has gone back to normal :)

But as for your question, I like to get a lot of my music from Yahoo! Music; you'd be amazed how many obscure (indie) and popular bands you'll find. The recommendations are what I love the most about this music downloading search engine. You key in the name of a band, and it can actually nail at least five other band recommendations of the same genre (I've learned about so many new bands this way, too). The only downside is that they are wmv files; you'll have to go out of your way to convert these to iPod-friendly mp3s. It's still worth it.

edit: I wonder if the Yahoo! layoffs have anything to do with the service glitches ... its trouble-shooting department might be on strike, or short-staffed right now...

You're not alone. When I hit my profile, sometimes the page fails to load or, like you said, says forbidden access. The bizarre screens where everything lines up on the left hand side of the screen minus the graphics, seen that too. Can't tell you why it's happening. Might be one those Yahoo glitches that their techs are no longer fixing for all I know. They've done such a wonderful job with 360, nothing surprises me anymore.

I'm a fan of Bearshare Pro, being one of those downloading types. Yes, I actually paid for the service, so the RIAA doesn't need to install those hidden cameras in my crib.

Sarah - Old Rasputin is saying much more than "drat", that's the clean version!

Hey Sookie.

Yea I've been having the same problems and they have started yesterday as well. I will go to click on a question and a blank screen will come up. The same problem is occuring when I try creating my own question, or anything else within

Y!A for that matter.

I hope the problem gets fixed soon, it's rather annoying.

I'm used to annoying situations on Y!A though, I STILL to this day can't change my avatar to anything other than a cheesy cartoon face. **Sigh**

And to answer your question, I'm not much of the downloading type. From time to time I will download a music video from iTunes, however.

I am experiencing all sorts of problems with ALL of Yahoo! on the desktops at work. Many of the graphics are blocked or somehow fail to low. Some of the pages remind me of DOS (that's an old school operating system). However, I am not having any problems on my laptop (perhaps since it is new and loaded with the latest $hit, including Vista)

I download primarily on I-tunes. When I can't find what I want that way, I go on the websites of bands I listen to and I often find downloadable content.

Seems that the pending lay-off of Yahoo! employees has some disgruntled workers mucking around in the system. I've had the same issues today.

To answer your other question, I'm not the downloading type, unless of course it's an authorized download directly from the artist.

NP: "Trouble & Bad Women" - The Golden Gods

Yeah I've been having problems the past couple days.. it's like it lags so much that the page doesn't want to load. When I hit "refresh" it comes back though. No other website I use is slow like that so I'm thinking yahoo has something going on.

MQ - I don't download.. I guess I'm still a dinosaur that prefers my cds and vinyl to MP3s.

I'm having the same problems too Sookie. I thought I was just having to give my computer a big kick in the 'nards but I guess it's not me alone.

I usually check the labels, you can get some good stuff from there. Alternative Tentacles, Bigneck Records, amongst others......the greatest thing I've found recently is Uncle Cessna's Auto Club, a country/bluegrass band from Denver off AT. Jello Biafra loves them so that should speak for itself.

For live shows, these ones are great.

http://www.archive.org/browse.php?collection=etree...

You can also find some interesting live stuff off here

http://freenet-homepage.de/bootlegbrowser/

or here

http://www.transmission3000.com/bands/?r=redhead.h...

But this one is my all time favorite

http://www.freesofree.net/index.php

And this one deserves some love

http://www.artrocity.com/rockshots/mojo_bootleg_sh...

Happy Tuesday!!

I am but its a yahoo thing , not just Y!A. Yahoo is probably " upgrading, everything gets screwy when they do. I am the moderator in 2 yahoo groups, and its been crazy. there are quadruple post and crap like that. I hate it when yahoo tries to " fix " things!!!

I can not answer your music related question on the grounds that it may incriminate me !

EDIT: I doubt the lay offs have anything to do with it . Everytime they upgrade something goes wacky. Its become a joke. We say if something is fixed yahoo will break it!

Yep ~ I've been having those issues since yesterday.

I've noticed that if you hit the 'back' arrow, and then try again, it usually works.

I'm also having a long delay getting e-mails from Y!A, letting me know when questions have been asked.

Downloading :~

MSN Music {through Windows Media Player}

7digital {only available in the UK & Europe}

Legalsounds