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I think we could've had a couple less pages of this discussion if we had known that Joel actual does have audio player software (Windows Media Player), tho he seemed to not know this himself. As for the "getting under the hood" idea, yes, it's true, but the thing that you're getting under the hood to do is usually to fix something that a PC should do naturally or to fix some software prob that sometimes has been left up to the user to beta test. While the PC guy is trying to get his piano delivered thru the front door of the performance space, the Mac guy not only has his piano waiting for him, but it's been tuned and calibrated to room acoustics and tried out with a full version of Klavierstück X! I prefer to be that guy - the guy who is all ready and set to get on with the performance - or even to "get under the hood" even further - a personalization of his sound maybe thru "preparing" his piano for the "Sonatas and Interludes..." for instance. American Motors Corporation (like PCs and their fondness for multi-corp "parts" i.e. software) had the Hornet which you could certainly spend some time "under-the-hood" ... and then there's a Prius, for example, which you have the option of spending time "under-the-hood." Deleting stuff: when you delete a tune or more, yes, you have the choice of removing or changing your mind. This is done the very first time you ever try to delete something - it's a courtesy, not a nefarious plot or an attempt at insult. There's a click-box: "Do not ask me again" if you never want to be asked again. Done. Earlier, I mentioned variations on "delete." This is even more helpful for more deep-down possibilities if they're needed. iTunes, for instance, makes it possible to completely delete that song for good by putting it in the trash...or you can remove it from your library while still keeping it on your hard drive. Choice! Glorious choice! One I'm needing and liking right now because I have three-quarters of a million tunes in iTunes now. Being "different" in the case of a lack of "yes" or "no" choice is based, not on ego, but rather the real experience of dealing with something that is not human, and a consideration of human foibles. When presented with "yes" or "no" in machine language, there is no such thing as it being "counter-intuitive to the way human beings think," because there is no standard template for that. A human could just as easily get impatient and think "No" as in: "no, I don't want that song anymore" and hit "No" and get frustrated that the song wasn't deleted. I see variations of this kind of thing on online forums often. It's like the guy who wants to go up on the elevator, but presses the "down" button to bring the elevator down to his floor. You have to "think different" sometimes when dealing with something that is second-guessing what people - of all kinds - will think and interpret. The idea of slogging off a complete system because of a semantic dislike is something I can safely say I've yet to encounter - until now.

Yeah, it was this that was (and still is) confusing me about Joel's statements, but I haven't had to deal with all the excessiveness of a PC since the last century that I'm assuming that apparently there are very few basic things that come with them now and so I'm believing that Joel really doesn't have any audio software and that he's just gonna play his tunes by clicking on individual files. Maybe? I have no idea what MG is talking about. A computer is not going to spontaneously ask you if you want to delete something and therefore you say (or press) "yes." You have to want to do this for some reason and so you press your "delete" key. What's extra great about that simple act is that you can even have options or variations on that "delete" if you choose. As for Apple support, every year for many, many years, Consumer Report's annual rating of these companies that produce computers has always rated Apple support with their highest ratings - always the highest you can get - based on their annual survey of customers. Apple have their problems, but it appears that "support" is something that many agree is fantastic.

Wow! OK, I did not know that. It's almost 2017, and there are still PCs sold without any audio player software included. I still don't know how playlists and libraries are created without it, but I'm assuming you're using spreadsheets of some kind. Anyway, surprises abound!

So, each time you want to hear a song, you'll be clicking on a file to hear it?

So what will you be using as your player to listen to your music?

...and even tho he's not really "noise-rap", but more abstract, I still like Open Mike Eagle's style.

Learned my share from him, but was too young to fully appreciate who he was.

Yes, true - "usually" - unless you walk into trouble while attending to something else. Still not as safe as being more attentive to your environment tho.

Yes, as I said above. Becoming deaf is quite damaging.

Blocking the "outside" out by using close-ear mechanics is a sure fire way of never having to hear the hustle and bustle now and, especially, in the future because you'll be bombarding your ears with close-ear sound that will soon create that desirable quiet you've been longing for - permanently. If being deaf isn't really the desired state you were wanting, maybe one can use some inner discipline when faced with their aural environment. If the reason for earbuds and the like are an avoidance technique, it would seem to me that it would be precisely the lecherous ones that would see this lack of attention to your environment as an advantageous moment. "...creating a world where you never take off your headphones."

Kraftwerk tonight was again wonderful.

LPs and CDs in this house are not in any order, but Ken Colyer could've had a harder time with where he's placed in my iTunes collection (loyal user since 2001 and still lovin' it). If you go by the first name, on one side, he's preceded by Ken Chaney and Ken Christie and the Sunday People and on t'other side he's followed by Ken "Marty Hopkirk" Cope and Ken "Festus" Curtis. As for databases, I don't use any, but the program director at the radio station that gets my show wants one, so I just use the ultra-simple iTunes to easy format for spreadsheets.

The solution

Internet Has a Field Day With Entitled Pick-Up Blog’s Instructions on How to Talk to a Woman Wearing Headphones Also, The Guardian.

Not much of a TV watcher, but we just finished watching (on DVD) this BBC drama (ca. 7 hours and "The Making of...") and it was fun:

Two current favorites from this century: Just about anything by Yannis Kyriakides. Dropping you into the middle of his "a conSPIracy cantata." and Tristan Perich. This is from a performance I attended of his work for 10 violins and 10-channel 1-bit music.

RVG Obit at Fact

This iPod has been sitting here on my desk for a very long time without use. Walks and bike rides are opportunities to discover new combinations of sound and so I don't take any music (tho I may, at times, take the "opposite": a recorder). Driving inside the US, I'll play discs, but for overseas travel, I stopped taking any music at all beginning at least 10 years ago because I never felt the need to listen to anything other than my varied surroundings, so weeks can go by without intended recorded music. There's a set of earbuds around here somewhere, but they're used occasionally for things other than listening.

Ka would've been 88 today.

I'm glad the topic title was changed - especially considering that this is a music forum. The good thing that I could say about McLaughlin is that he showed up for his show regularly, so he was pretty dedicated to it, but the absurd take on the non-comedic panel format, his many, many ridiculous ideas (Warren G. Harding was our first black president?) and his sexual advances toward women colleagues places him in the area of political discussion that I would not want to be a part of. Also, this guy is even more meaningless to our friends here who are not from the US.

I did not know that!

{A note from Leo Records in their latest press release} "Some 30 years ago in the age of vinyl I released an LP by the Romanian musician Harry Tavitian. Romania was a totalitarian state run by the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, the collapse of the Berlin Wall was four years away. A friend took the courage and smuggled out the tape by the Romanian musician Harry Tavitian. Inside the box there was a letter from Harry asking Leo Records to publish the tape. Harry Tavitian fully understood that if Ceausescu's secret agents find out about it the consequences would be severe. Since Harry lived behind the Iron Curtain it was impossible to speak to him directly. Although the release of the LP in the West by the obscure Romanian Quartet promised me nothing but financial losses I decided to release it. Five years later the world switched from LPs to CDs, Romanian dictator was dead, five hundred copies of Tavitian's LP were gone and the whole thing forgotten. Little did I know. Last week, thirty odd years after the release of the LP, I received a letter from the law firm in Romania stating that they represent the interests of somebody called Catalin Frusinescu who used to be a member of Harry Tavitian's quartet. It transpired that along with three other musicians Catalin Frusinescu was the composer of one short song under four minutes long. It was his only contribution to the LP as a composer. The letter stated that since 1985 until the present day Leo Records was selling this LP without the prior consent of Mr. Frusinescu. The Romanian lawyer wanted to see the written agreement between his client and Leo Records. HOLY SHIT! Needless to say, the letter raises a lot of legal, moral and ethical questions. I wonder what you think about it. Write to us to: leorecords@blueyonder.co.uk "