Ways to get the Coke Code for iTunes downloads
I think it is really fascinating that Coca Cola is doing another major promotion in Europe teaming up once again with iTunes and giving away 2 billion songs on iTunes along with other goodies such as tickets to concerts and iPods for codes that can be found in Coca Cola bottles.
You had to use four codes to download one song from iTunes in the last promotion and the new one will surely use the system as well. It should be noted that only selected songs were available for download in the last promotion and that it is very likely that it is the same case during the new promotion.
We have several fridges at work that contain bottles of Coca Cola and Fanta which we can drink for free. I'm drinking about 2 bottles of Coca Cola Zero per day which means that I can get 8 codes which results in 2 iTunes songs per week. It is not that much and I thought of different ways to get new codes. I came up with two. The first one would be to buy the codes from sites such as eBay. I remember that many users sold a lot of codes on eBay for just a few bucks which would result in a nice bargain if you would have bought some of the songs available for the codes anyway.
You can buy 50 codes for $2 for instance which means that you can download 12 songs on iTunes for only $2. A cheaper method would be to visit a store that is selling Coke and ask them if you could take a look at the empty bottles and get the codes from them. Since many know about the promotion as well though, you may need to pay them some money as well to get your hands on the codes.
Can you think of more ways to get codes? Let me hear them.
Update: A marketplace like eBay is probably the best location to get a large amount of codes for a small amount of money. Even if you manage to get your hands on a source that is free, you may very well spend some time collecting the codes. Just paying a couple of Dollars for dozens of codes is probably worth it if you would take part in the promotion anyway.
It may take a day or a couple of days before codes are offered on eBay when a promotion starts though so check back regularly to find new offers on the site.
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Why not make use of the mplayer.conf?
Huh, I have never even seen this “font cache” pane; videos play at once for me, using VLC & XP SP3.
Mike, in theory this should have only been displayed once to you, at the very first video that you played with VLC. The time this window is displayed depends largely on the number of fonts in your font directory.
huh, I lucked out for a change?? Amazing!!
Apparently VLC keeps this info through version updates, but I didn’t see this message after a fresh OS install about 8 weeks ago, & a new VLC.
yes, yes, i have the same problem. sometimes, VLC crashes when it is playing .mov file.
Error:
Buidling font Cache pop-up
Solution:
Open VLC player.
On Menu Bar:
Tools
Preferences
(at bottom – left side)
Show settings — ALL
Open: Video
Click: Subtitles/OSD (This is now highlited, not opened)
Text rendering module – change this to “Dummy font renderer function”
Save
Exit
Re-open – done.
Progam will no longer look outside self for fonts
Source – WorthyTricks.co.cc
Great tip, thanks a lot Kishore.
@Kishore, I’ll try your tips, but does this mean it will no longer show subtitles either?
I do use subtitles, but the fontcache dialog box pops up (almost) everytime I play a file.
Could this be related to the fonts I have installed? Or if I add/remove fonts to my system?
I’ll try to do a fresh install also, if your tips does no work. I’ll post back here later…
/thanks
/j
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,Dont worry, VLC is currently sorting out this issue and the next version will be out soon.
No probs @ Martin !! Its my pleasure
Try running LC with administrator privileges. That seemed to fix it for me
I am using SMplayer 0.8.6 (64-bit) (Portable Edition) on Windows 7 x64. Even with the -nofontconfig parameter in place SMplayer still scans the fonts. Also, I have enabled normal subtitles and it is still scanning fonts before playing a video. Also, it does this every time the player opens a video after a system restart (only the fist video played).
Does that mean that only instrumental versions of songs will be available for non-paying users?