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I've been buying records from Mosaic since the original Blue Note Monk set in the early 90s (late 80s?). I will probably buy records from Mosaic until they shut down. Would I like their shipping and logistics to be better? Sure. Do I understand why it's not? Sure. Would they probably be in better shape if somehow they could instantly fix it at no cost in either money or time? Probably. Will this change the fact that I will probably buy records from Mosaic until they shut down? No. Your opinions and milage may vary. I don't really understand why we are still talking about this, except to the extent that a lot of people on Internet Forums need to keep talking until they think that everyone else thinks that they are Right (tm).

Apple Music and iTunes search have a few issues that combine together to be annoying: 1. They are too specific. Often if you look for something that is not in the tagged meta-data but which you know is there, nothing comes up. 2. They are not specific enough. Often if you search for search keywords you will get hits for completely irrelevant keywords that are just a letter or two off. This is obviously an attempt to alleviate (1), but it actually just makes the whole thing seem more broken. 3. The engine won't show you everything that's in the catalog, because the catalog is too big. I'm not sure why they do this. Spotify is better about this. The solution is to combine Apple, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube and Google (you can do a search like 'keywords i want site:itunes.apple.com') until you can narrow down to just the thing you need. It's not ideal. That said, I have a bit of sympathy for the poor engineers who have to build this. Music meta-data is not the easiest thing in the world to index and search through, and natural language text search is a harder problem than we realize after being spoiled by what google does. But what google does will not directly help here, necessarily, because it's a much more specific domain with specific expectations. Oh well.

This is good. https://www.amazon.com/Well-Tempered-Clavier-I-II/dp/B01KIUUL3W/

I had not heard this "Creation" track before. Very cool. I wonder why it was left off of the relatively "recent" (man, 2005) release of the Half Note stuff.

Belohlavek played with the PSO a couple of years back. It was a great show. He was scheduled this year too, to play a Suk piece that is just the sort of thing that's hardly ever programmed here. Very sad.

Saw this in Pittsburgh over the weekend. Very enjoyable. I might now investigate some of the "post-classic-quartet" music that I have not looked into much in the past.

FWIW I got my Charlie Parker and Woody Shaw sets today. Ordered them about 2.5-3 weeks ago. Got an email about shipping two weeks ago. I think the warehouse must have still had something of a backlog at that time.

IME the Bohm is solid. If you can find the Beecham recordings of the late symphonies they are also sublime. There is also a set of the later symphonies by Jane Glover which is very nice.

I use Apple Music and iTunes Match. The first is Apple's streaming service, the second is the Apple service that lets you stream music that you have bought/ripped yourself. There is a lot of overlap there. When Apple Music first launched it was a bit of a mess when dealing with existing catalogs and the iTunes store, but it has gotten a lot smoother now. I use it to preview a lot of stuff when possible, and then I usually buy the tracks from the store, because I'm old fashioned. I also used Spotify a bit before Apple Music launched. It's also pretty good. Both UIs kind of suck and the quality of the catalog varies a lot. But overall I'm happy with it for what I use it for.

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2016/Oct/Bednall_stabat_REGCD481.htm BEDNALL: Stabat Mater; Marian Suite; Ave Maria David Bednall, org; Jennifer Pike, v; Benenden Chapel Choir/ Edward Whiting Regent 481—74 minutes

The widget does have a clipping light. The capture software will also warn you if you are clipping and you can adjust and run it again. I really only do this because I don't have a proper stereo, per se. And probably won't in the foreseeable future.

On Macs there is an application called Vinyl Studio that is pretty good at making track splitting and such a bit less tedious. It might run on Windows too, I dunno. I use a USB phono pre-amp rather than a USB turntable. http://mutable-states.com/the-airplay-turntable-kit.html

Toshiko Ashyoki big band, Insights. I found an LP of it in a local store ... then realized I already had it on the Mosaic Select set. ? It's also here:

Presumably this means getting rid of the iTunes store (buy and download) in favor of Apple Music (flat fee and streaming ... but with downloading also available). A move like this would make me sad. I'm not sure I see it happening though. The marginal cost of maintaining the buy workflow in addition to the streaming flow is not that high.

It seems to work mostly like before. They just changed some of the layouts so everything is a lot bigger. Especially in Apple Music.

Skrowaczewski, the Beethoven 9 from this set. https://www.amazon.com/Stanisaw-Skrowaczewski-90th-Birthday-Collection/dp/B00EXS4OVQ/

BTW, she has another video where she sings *and* conducts that piece.

Walter Bishop Jr: Ode to Bird. Bought this years ago, a bit surprised that it's super hard to find in CD.

I did not actually miss him, because later in life did get to see a few live Max Roach shows that were great. But, I grew up in Amherst, MA where Roach was in the music department at UMass for my entire childhood. Sadly I didn't know anything about Jazz until I left for college.

Johnny Hodges, 1951-55 Mosaic set. Ellington Indigos, from close to the same time. The ridiculous Music Matters Blue Train reissue. Very pretty.

Pittsburgh Symphony in Berlin. I am lucky enough to get to see these guys a lot.

My understanding of iTunes match and Apple Music is that the matching system should only affect what appears in the cloud music catalog and should never actually change the local files that are stored on your hard drive (unless you tell it to, on purpose or by accident). Obviously the system is confusing and I could see how naive use might result in a state where you might think that the files are gone. But I remain very surprised at the claim that the files were just deleted by the system. No system is designed to do that on purpose, only by mistake. But as I said before, I have never combined a local catalog *with* Apple Music but *without* iTunes Match, so there could be some extra confusion there, since the matching system in Apple Music is *not* the same. Overall Apple could be doing this better, but as I tried to make clear in my original post, they are fighting a lot of history and complexity. FWIW, I personally use iTunes Match (and Apple Music) so I can play my music off my laptop either when I'm not at home or if I don't fee like turning on my "main" computer. Except for some occasional foibles as described above, it has worked well for me and never touched any of my original files, whether I ripped them myself or downloaded them.

I've probably lost more music on CD than I ever lost off of my computers. (Knock wood). I also had a few CDs rot, but luckily had ripped them already, so they live on, for now, as long as my backups are not destroyed.

So, I don't know what exactly happened to this poor user, but I'm pretty sure that Apple Music is not *designed* to end up in a place where it is actually deleting files off of your computer without telling you. The problem is that Apple Music/iTunes is a very complicated system, and it's hard to tell exactly what happened to the poor guy to put him into his final state. The current iTunes/Apple Music application is really at least four different applications that manages music in four different ways (I'm leaving out the movies, books and apps part of the system for now). 1. It's a thing that lets you rip CDs and manages the local storage of the results. 2. It's a thing that lets you buy and download music files from the iTunes store, and then manage the local storage of same. 3. It is iTunes Match, which came before Apple Music, which allows you to stream any of the some version of the above files from other computers using your iTunes account. 4. It is Apple Music, which is a spotify-like service that lets you stream music that you have not bought from any computer using your Apple Music account. The main confusion over how the system works is in how your local catalog interacts with Match and how they both interact with Apple Music. Apple also made the unfortunate decision to make the Match and Apple Music services different even though they are in the same app and even though on the surface they do very similar things with files that are already local to your computer. I think this is where the original user got into trouble, but I'm not sure. So what does Match do? It does two things: 1. It makes the various bits of music that you ripped or bought from the store available for streaming from any computer that you have your iTunes account on. 2. As part of (1) it maintains a catalog of the music you can stream in Apple's servers. The way this works is: 1. Any music you bought from the store is automatically in the shared catalog. 2. Any music you ripped is added to the catalog in one of two ways: iTunes examines all of your local files and sees if they "match" existing songs in the store based on some fuzzy criteria mostly related to file fingerprints or meta-data. If it finds a store file that matches it assumes your local file is the same track and lets you stream that track from the store if you don't have a local copy of it. If it can't find a match it will upload the file to some storage associated with your account, but the number of files you can upload is limited. The matching is done this way to limit the amount of user data the Apple servers need to store. The fuzzy matching does cause some weird issues though, because you might not actually get *exactly* the track you expect, esp. in classical and jazz recordings where the same track has been reissued or remastered multiple times. Confusingly, Apple Music also uses a system much like Match to integrate files you might already own into Apple Music's shared catalog, but the two systems *are not the same*. I don't know how AM works if you don't keep Match running, because I have not tried that case. Still, it is subject to all the above confusions. If you have been a long time user of iTunes Match and read the Apple Music docs carefully you would have realized that you wanted to keep *both* subscriptions going in order to be happy. This is what I did with my relatively large catalog and while I have had other problems with Apple Music (and Match, and the iCloud music library) I have never had it delete any local files without telling me. Early on in Apple Music's launch there were some Internet pieces written by angry users who got into trouble by doing this: 1. Start with a large local music library. 2. Sign up for AM or iTunes Match 3. Think "hmm, all my files are now in this cloud catalog, I will save space by deleting them from my computer". 4. Be sad later, because the cloud library is not really storing your files, most of the time, just a meta-data fingerprint of your files. I don't think this is what happened to this user. But I do think that he was using Apple Music without iTunes Match and something ended up going wrong with his shared catalog In some ways I think Apple could have avoided some of this confusion if they had kept Apple Music and the iTunes store in separate applications. Merging that catalogs together makes for a confusing user experience and it's hard to know what to do when something goes wrong. Some people may recall other early reports of Apple Music duplicating tracks or otherwise running into trouble because the iTunes catalog and the Apple Music catalog had some kind of disagreement. Anyway, you can avoid all of this by not signing up for any of it. Or just playing CDs. But I like playing music from my phone in my car. ? Hope this "helps."

http://www.imore.com/no-apple-music-not-deleting-tracks-your-hard-drive-unless-you-tell-it