The Magnificent Goldberg

Gunther Grass Grassella Oliphant Lorne Greene

Great story! MG

Upon further examination I have all of the following from Spoon: A Series Of Sneaks Soft Effects Telephono Gimme Fiction Girls Can Tell Kill The Moonlight Loveways My music collection is officially out of my control. This is like a sci-fi story in which the computers become so large they become self aware and start taking over. I don't think Isaac Asimov ever thought they'd start collecting indie rock music, though MG

I'm in - your last one was very interesting. MG

Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray - The hunt - Bop (Savoy Jazz) MG

Baba Maal Bobo Stenson Bubba Brooks

Wigan Wanderers Percy Wiggins (hero of Northern Soul) Gerry Wiggins

Fortunately, I'm in the hills. Sheep in the field behind us MG

In the runup to lunch Sonny Phillips - I concentrate on you - Muse Buddy Tate - Hard blowin' live at Sandy's - Muse promo Jimmy McGriff - Black & blues - Groove Merchant (SA or Aussie pressing, I think) MG

Twenty miles away, in Cardiff. Nervousness creeping in, here. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091121/tuk-e...lu-6323e80.html MG

Chuck Rock Eva Brick Muntader al-Zaidi

Many happy returns, Doug! MG

Have no fear. MG

You're... welcome? Another indispensable tip (sorry, these things are taken for granted by those of us who are used to using iTunes): The search function!! Upper right corner of the iTunes window, just type in Zouglou. In fact, just type in Zo, or Zou, and all you'll see in your list below is your Zouglou (whatever the hell that is ). Really, iTunes is complex, but once you begin to get used to it, it really is a very well-designed program. Getting used to it takes some time, and I'm even still learning some useful tips as I go, after years of using it. Keep asking questions, preferably one or two at a time. Seriously, a lot of folks including me might benefit from this sharing of ideas. I'm really most grateful, Jim - particularly for the search tip. (Zouglou is a kind of music they have in Cote d'Ivoire. Very dancefloor-friendly.) MG

Roberto Torres Laba Sosseh Baba Cissokho

I've been playing your Christmas tunes all year! Lurvely! MG

I loves you, Porcy. MG

Idris Muhammad Bernard Purdie Joe Dukes

Yes, on my second attempt, I clicked "no" I didn't know I could change it once it was in - that sounds a better bet. I'll try that next time. Thanks Bev. MG

Well, I had a go. Bleedin' 'ell! So I've found out all about the sorting stuff. That's fine if you have only a few things in there, but I can't see any way to play some Zouglou, when I have twenty thousand tracks in there I'll end up playing Avant Garde Jazz all the time It caught me on the hop to start off with - asked if I wanted to import the CD, so I said yes, then began to uncheck the tracks I didn't want. By the time I'd finished that, it had imported two tracks, before I'd had time to rename them (this was a CD from a vinyl drop wot I dun). Eventually, I discovered by interrogating the not terribly forthcoming help file how to stop it importing. So I changed the titles. That was easy. Putting the artist in was very hard, I found. I had to right click in the artist field, get up a little irrelevant menu, then left click just beside the menu, and I'd get a little editable space. I didn't find anything such as Bev described to copy the artist all down the selected tracks; had to do each one by hand - using copy and paste, so I didn't make mistakes. Then the same with the album title and the genre. It took ages. But I got it done in the end. What an awful programme! And it loaded the tracks from the CD OK. That was quite quick, compared with putting in all the data. I was surprised that I had loads of stuff in the itunes library. Stuff I know I've never put in there, like BFT material - I always use Windows Media Player to listen to them. Anyway, I've deleted everything in there now except a Lou Donaldson interview which I don't have copied elsewhere. We'll start afresh some other time. MG

Khalid Moss Jerry Moss Ike the Lombard

Jimmy McGriff - Fly dude - Groove Merchant (People UK) MG

Sorry to be so thick, Jon, but I've more questions: My left hand column doesn't have "devices" in it; just Library, Store and Playlists. Which one will it come under? If it's a CD I've made myself from an LP or K7, it won't have a title. Will it say something like "Unknown CD"? No buttons - just something called "Genius". Does this go away, when I put a CD in? I've never seen this. On the few occasions I've tried to play with itunes, I've only been able to find them by looking at the "recently added" line under "playlists". Yes, I've found this and I guess I can fire up the music from Windows by clicking on it. In the middle of the screen, there are nine big icons, which I know I can change from artists to genres. And I can change it to a list. But it's just a list of tracks. How do I get it to look like a hierarchical directory? Or can't I? I've also noticed that, if you do anything wrong, it goes off and invites you to buy some other record by the artist you're on and you can't close that window - you have to close the whole programme. Or am I missing something? Sorry to be a bother. MG

Oh, one of the best. I'm so sorry to hear this. Another great gone. Just played Don's "Satisfaction" this afternoon. Think I'll listen to Sonny Stitt's "Just the way it was, live at the Left Bank" this evening. Billy seems paranormally sensitive to what Sonny and Don were doing on that. RIP. MG

Don Patterson - Satisfaction - Prestige (Transatlantic UK) MG