Random Music Thoughts

[Unsomnambulist]

Thanks, Unsom. Interesting post.

This issue comes up every so often. I regularly rip my own collection and buy new-to-me used CD's dating back to 1982. Rarely do I encounter problems ripping to flac or 320 mp3 with EZ CD Audio Converter and lame. Once in a blue moon, a CD gives me trouble with obviously missing chunks of aluminum or visible rust. They tend to be from the very early days of digital audio and often are from the UK.

I never tried CDparanoia, the linux based ripping program mentioned by DataHoarder. The fact that its last stable release dates back to 2008 would worry me. EZ CD was updated just this week. I used to have a lot of trouble with Exact Audio Copy giving me false error messages or taking forever to rip a CD.

EDITED TO ADD:

By the way, I hate single track flacs. EZ CD has no problem detecting the space (or lack thereof) between tracks.

You live in a part of California with low humidity, right? I wonder if that plays a part in you having little trouble with this issue.

 

[Ojai Sam]

You live in a part of California with low humidity, right? I wonder if that plays a part in you having little trouble with this issue.

Could be, but I buy from all over the world. My collection does live in a cool area in a room with specially insulated walls. :nunja:

 

[JazzyRandy]

Grammy Awards to Drop ‘Urban’ Term

The Grammy Awards will cease using the term “urban” as part of the latest round of annual changes to its rules and guidelines.

variety.com

That always confused the heck out of me when I was younger Country music seemed an appropriate description. Urban music never quite made sense, so I just accepted the term as a stand-in for what they really wanted to say and didn't worry about whether or not it made sense. I'm glad that it's finally going away.

 

[JazzyRandy]

You live in a part of California with low humidity, right? I wonder if that plays a part in you having little trouble with this issue.

I live in hot'N'humid NC and I have so rarely experienced rusting or CDs missing metallic that I always thought the worry was overblown. I don't rip to FLAC and such, but just plain listening and doing regular ripping has not been a problem. Maybe less than 1 in 100 CDs present a problem, and most that do have obvious defects like scratches or missing metallic.

But I concede that FL is humider more humid than NC, and maybe it's different in FL.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

I haven't had an issue with gapless tracks (in any format, lossless or lossy) in years.

Except for when I tried out Deezer music streaming and to my astonishment found out they still don't have it.

 

[Nickyboy]

I was in the shower and started to insert birds into song titles. Here's what I came up with so far:

Toucan Play That Game
Dove Hurts
Once Bittern
Owl Be Seeing You
Thrush to Judgement
Wren the Shit Hits the Fan
Tit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
Tern, Tern, Tern
I Was in the Kite Place
Hawk This Way
Plover, Under, Sideways, Down (by the YardBIRDS!)
Stork! In the Name of Love (I already used Dove)
Last Crane to Clarksville
Let Osprey
Robin Around the Christmas Tree
It's Pigeon-ing to Look A Lot Like Christmas.
Skua Are You?

 

[Unsomnambulist]

I was in the shower and started to insert birds into song titles. Here's what I came up with so far:

Toucan Play That Game
Dove Hurts
Once Bittern
Owl Be Seeing You
Thrush to Judgement
Wren the Shit Hits the Fan
Tit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
Tern, Tern, Tern
I Was in the Kite Place
Hawk This Way
Plover, Under, Sideways, Down (by the YardBIRDS!)
Stork! In the Name of Love (I already used Dove)
Last Crane to Clarksville
Let Osprey
Robin Around the Christmas Tree
It's Pigeon-ing to Look A Lot Like Christmas.
Skua Are You?

You forgot A Jay In The Life.

 

[Nickyboy]

You forgot A Jay In The Life.

Nice!
I Fought the Daw (and the Daw won)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1272212847225798658

 

[Ojai Sam]

Sonny Rollins on the Pandemic, Protests, and Music

The legendary saxophonist, approaching ninety, discusses civil rights, jazz, and creative change.

www.newyorker.com

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Nice!
I Fought the Daw (and the Daw won)

I can't help but think that DAW also stands for digital audio workstation.

 

[axolotl]

^^^^^^ What the flock is going on, here?

Two Tickets to Parakeets

I'm Your Pippit

Tanagerine

 

[Unsomnambulist]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1272266872222674945

 

[Ojai Sam]

freedb, the venerable public database of CD track listings has gone dark. It was acquired by Magix, a German software developer, in 2006. This month they finally got around to shutting it down.

I noticed this when foobar stopped recognizing common CD's a few days ago. The most recent release (1.5.4) changed the freedb metadata lookup to freedb.dbpoweramp.com. Problem solved!

 

[axolotl]

freedb, the venerable public database of CD track listings has gone dark. It was acquired by Magix, a German software developer, in 2006. This month they finally got around to shutting it down.

I noticed this when foobar stopped recognizing common CD's a few days ago. The most recent release (1.5.4) changed the freedb metadata lookup to freedb.dbpoweramp.com. Problem solved!

foobar

You're telling me!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

You're telling me!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

foobar2000

foobar2000

www.foobar2000.org

 

[Nickyboy]

Toni Visconti explains the recording of David Bowie's "Heroes"

The Eno synths are gorgeous, as are Bowie's Solina string-synths. dated. but gorgeous. The info about the electronic baffles on the microphones just floors me. So advanced for back then!

 

[Nickyboy]

Interesting...

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Roger Waters plays on themes of loss, love, war

Vera Lynn turned 100 in March, nearly four decades after Roger Waters asked in a song that bears her given name, "Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?" Lynn became an iconic cultural...

apnews.com

2017

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Vera & How "We'll Meet Again" Influenced The Wall

"Vera" is a song from Roger Waters' original The Wall demo and it changed little throughout production. In early demos of The Wall, Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" is part of the album's opening instead of "Outside The Wall".

thewallcomplete.com