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This has become (along with "Slow TV") my favorite kind of TV - especially if you have a large screen. You can watch the cam live or go back as far as 12 hours, but it's incredibly meditative during some moments and quite dramatic at other times. Giraffes, emus, zebras, warthogs, ibex, hyenas (mostly at dawn), foxes, birds of various kinds... There are highlights here.

That was in my thoughts: that Toyota would probably be getting it that way as well 😉 Yeah well, of course, that isn't gonna be of any use to me. Anyway, I'll explore possibilities in a couple of weeks.

Well, like I said, I’m using my Touch which works fine (tho the fidelity isn’t as good as the disc player). If I had a phone - which is more expensive - I’d have to do the same thing as the Touch, so why buy an expensive toy to do the same thing? (Do phones even have an external line out anymore - like a headphone jack?)

After 23 years, my 6-disc changer in the car broke today. Kinda bummed... especially when I found out that it would cost - with tax - $9,419.83 for Toyota to replace it - and that's if they can find another one. They used to work with a company called "Car Toys" if I decide to get a more reasonable replacement. It makes me feel like they've had some luck changing them out on these first gen Prius models. Still, I have a Touch that I can plug in (after I had a special plug-in connection added to the car over a decade ago).

Amazing that Ray Anthony is still alive. When I was a little boy, I used to refer to him as Ray “Agony” (per my mother).

more duduk, not les dudek Duduk Solos by Sergey Karapetyan

Yes! It’s a wonderful label full of surprises. I’ve been working my way through it for the past couple of years. It actually started for me with this release below of music from Rwanda and then it wound its way thru Russia, Serbia, and so forth. It used to be hard to track down ethnic folk releases like you’d find on labels like Ocora, Folkways, Lyrichord … but to see catalogs like this these days is pretty exciting for me. I’m happy to be associated with, again, a radio station that allows me to work recordings like these into shows.

what is "gol"?

Gloria Coates (October 10, 1933 – August 19, 2023)

more Bach…

Thanks for AudioQuest info. I have no USB ports in my 23 year old car, but it could come in handy in a rental - or maybe here at home - not sure, because I tried using their "Dragonfly" for a while and I remember having some problems with the sound. I might try again. Anyway, thanks again! Yes! I can relate. My iPod Touch is a 256GB version. I can store 20,000 tunes total from either my personal iTunes library or set up two 10,000-tune Spotify playlists (they only allow 10,000 max per playlist) or any other combination up to a full 20,000 tunes at 320kbps (highest quality on Spotify too for Premium members). Not owning a phone, I didn't know what the storage was on those, so it's good to see you having 512GB!

Kinda like Lon, I’ve used Macs for nearly a quarter of a century and have never sent anything to their “cloud.” …and 5GB storage is such a pittance. Music in the car comes from over 250GB loaded on a Touch (and I’m thinking that you can do nearly the same on a cell phone with lots of storage?). A favorite thing for me is to download big Spotify playlists (10,000 tunes) and switch between those and about the same number of tunes from my personal library with them cross-fading with nice segues tune to tune. It’s really the ultimate radio station in the car.

Congratulations! Sadly, I'm having to seriously consider updating my 13 year old machine by buying a Mac Studio after the new OS is introduced this October. I love what I have so much that an alternative is to raise my OS from El Capitan to Sonoma (or at least, Ventura) using an OpenCore Legacy Patcher instead of getting a new computer. I dread the change, but it's becoming a needed thing lately.