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Yeah, Testa's fine, but on that other album I pictured above, Gino Paoli is the singer (to whom I couldn't connect - the band is first rate though, so that made me wonder...)

My Controls > Edit Avatar Settings, then it looks like this screen below, simply enter the right number (check the pixel size in Explorer by holding the cursor over the file, or by opening it in one of those programmes were information is displayed): Hope this helps!

time for a Hitler joke... and VB: you can change the size of your avatar by re-setting the pixel ratio according to the original size of the picture you want to have on display. it won't be distorted that way.

Wilson is good enough - Dewey Redman is standout on his first release: I also have Wake Up (To What's Happening) - not bad either. That Pavone trio disc could be good then... Pavone I mostly know from his (fine) work with Thomas Chapin's great trio.

They played Cully, some of it was on the radio, could be a nice one! About Petrella, indeed I think I should check out some - his Cosmic Band project played Umbria Jazz a couple of weeks back (also on the radio) and it sounded very good! Other than that I only know him from Rava's quintet. I passed this one up several times in sales, didn't connect with what bits I played in stores, how about it, who's that singer?

still waiting............. yes - STILL waiting......PLEASE MR. POSTMAN!!!!! :rsmile: please mrs. robinson?

third spin finished, still liking it a lot, so it can't be all bad lots of fine groovy drumming there, randissimo! great beat opening the proceedings!

Well, so far all the discs were readable (and my discman also had problems sometimes with discs burned at 8X). Will see...

Very sad news! Or in one word: fuck! Truly one of my biggest tenor heros - at least I caught the one chance I had to see him live here in Zurich (not a great night, he was high on booze I think). Anyway, he left us with so much wonderful music - his run of Riverside albums is fantastic! - and he seems indeed to have led a good life in Europe, and that's what counts in the end. Thanks for everything, I'll always cherish that huge sound and that unmistakeable swagger!

My laptop burner automatically select the max writting speed, the lowest I've seen was X10 normally it burns at X24 and never had any problems, as you said if needed we can always use the laptop burner. 16X should be OK in 95% of the cases. My daughter is picking one up for me today. Thanks again. Yeah, the burner in my parents' computer has 10X as slowest too... my own could go down to 4 or even lower (I used 8X). With DVDs, this new Samsung has 4X as slowest, which is what I always used anyway, so like you, I hope this will do fine in most cases! And let's face it: I have too many discs to listen to all of them anyway, even if all my CDRs would be unreadable, I'd have plenty of stuff that should be explored more thoroughly, so some little losses aren't necessarily a bad thing Once I get a real desktop computer, I'll certainly deal with these issues more thoroughly again, though - so thanks Milan for weighing in with your expert knowledge, appreciated! (and I hope you helped catch that old weird herb doctor... he he, finally!)

The problem is, USB boxes/cases are hard to find and cost as much as such an external burner... (you rarely find any 5.25 cases, only 3.5 for external HDs seem common). I guess for the time being I just live with 16x speed... if it's really important to burn slow, I can still use my internal drive, it's still sometimes burning alright (but not if I want to burn several discs in a row).

I think LiteOn and LG would have been the only others available here... that's annoying, but I can't do anything about that. But why would they lock these burners anyway? What's the point in doing that? Can that be fixed by flashing the firmware (I didn't try that yet, though it shouldn't be a big thing to do).

Ok, here's what I got: Samsung DVD Writer SE-S204N I'm too lazy to type up the technical specifications, you can google it I'm sure! It cost me 80 Swiss Franks (around 80 US$ these days) and it was a special offer (but the two other shops I checked both had comparable "special offers" for 90, these offers are all just a fake anyway, methinks). It works like a charm, but it only burns @ 16, slowest. I hope this will not be a problem in the future. My notebook still gets somewhat hot if I have it connected to the internet for hours, downloading stuff, but it's much better than how it was when I was burning simultaneously, too. Also the discs that I burn with the external burner aren't hot when they're finished (those from my internal burner got quite warm). The thing is hooked up with USB (why would you want a separate burner, jazz1? Just to make straight copies? Those come out best when you use EAC in secure mode, so you'll have to use your computer anyway... and then burn the extracted discs from there - definitely recommended over just doing copies using, say, Nero's copy-disc-feature). It's hooked up separately for power, btw, that doesn't go via USB (there'd be such burners, too, but I didn't see any of those on display). And just in case, if you want your daughter to pick up this very same one I bought, it's on special sale at Mediamarkt, which is located at Sihlcity (tram #5 or #13 or train S4, the later's stop is called "Saalsporthalle" while the tram's stop is called "Sihlcity" I think). This is in Zurich itself, so it should be easy to find even if she's not very familiar with Zurich. There was a huge pile of the burner stacked up right behind the entrance. But can't you get something like that at a comparable prize in SA?

Magnificent. Adding a "me too" to "Ayler's Wings". I was intrigued by the idea, I had never heard Gaslini, and I didn't "get" Ayler until I heard this album. The album made me a fan of two musicians! That's cool! Gaslini is really something!

Got the disc yesterday and immediately popped it in the player - very nice! Will spin it again today!

hm, might be worth a try then, interesting!

probably something like that... I don't really know myself, but the fact that some of my earliest CDRs aren't readable anymore makes me think there's a grain of truth in there...

Why do you think they'll last longer if they're burned slower? because it burns with less errors. some discs I burned for mikeweil with my first burner (2001 or so) have by now become partly unplayable (bad ripping may have a part in that as well, though). there was a previous discussion about this, I think, I got some PDF somewhere about what should be and what should not be done if you want your CDRs to last a while, in short: don't use no-name blanks, don't burn fast, don't write on the surface of the disc (just on the small inner "ring" or whatever you want to call that)

I'll let you know, jazz1 - will hit a store or two after work tonight to see what they have. Seems it's an issue these days that burner allow slow burning. That's worth a consideration, as that's most definitely recommended if you want your CDRs to last more than just a couple of years.

this is not funny: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVWjsPE...xGi8owD92258S01

http://www.keros.it/papetti/english.html too bad the cover images are so small, but I'm sure they can be found with google in larger versions

The Peterson and Hampton dates are terrific. The Peterson set (sans drums) is on my Nano. I've had the Hampton on my wantlist for a loooong time, but now I have to add the Peterson, too... thanks!

Didn't know about that Dragon set! I guess it's well worth checking out Getz' 50s output in a more systematic way than I did so far!

how about this one? http://www.digitec.ch/ProdukteDetails2.asp...;Artikel=147221 Lite-On EZ-DUB DX-20A4PU, 20x DVD±RW Double-Layer, USB 2.0 Brand: Lite-On Category: Externe CD/DVD Laufwerke Description: Lite-On EZ-DUB DX-20A4PU, 20x DVD±RW Double-Layer, USB 2.0 Price: CHF 90.- Guarantee: Bring-In 24 Months Description: Ext. DVD-Brenner Form Factor: Externes Gehäuse Connection: USB 2.0 Writing format: 20x DVD+R, 20x DVD-R, 8x DVD±R DL, 8x DVD+RW, 6x DVD-RW, 48x CD-R, 24x CD-RW, 12x DVD-RAM Reading format: 16x DVD single/dual layer, DVD-R ( 3.9 GB / 4.7 GB ), DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, 48x CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-ROM / XA, Photo-CD, Multi-session, Karaoke-CD, Video-CD, CD-I FMV, CD Extra, CD Plus, CD-R, CD-RW Buffer Size: 2MB Buffer Features: SMART-BURN, SMART-X, VAS, Fixed Packet, Variable Packet, TAO, SAO, DAO, Raw Mode Burning, Over-Burn Power supply: extern

I love the West Coast 3CD set, but then there are quite some gaps in my Getz Verve 50s holdings. The cuts with Fruscella (on the Cool Sounds album, part of which are also on the West Coast set) are marvellous as well. The Brookmeyer sessions are out on Lonehill but that would make a lovely Mosaic Select... The meeting with Mulligan is ok, but not that great (Mulligan's meetings with Hodges, Desmond - both Verve and RCA - and Webster are better, in my opinion). Then, what else? Plays? Does that count? In my Getz categorisation, it belongs to the Raney/Haig/Jordan/Silver early sessions... except for the bonus tracks with Jimmy Rowles & Max Roach - great ones! Then the jams/concerts, Diz & Getz (fine!), J.J./Getz at the Opera House (ok, but never really won me over) - there are more that I haven't heard... What else is there, what am I missing? (Getz in Sweden is one I'm aware of, also Getz/Peterson and Getz/Hamp...) The Fall 1960 VME with Brookmeyer, I know of, haven't come around getting it. Also the the 60s sessions with Gary Burton (the live album is in the Jazz in Paris series, another one was released in that all too short-lived Verve Discoveries series) are mighty fine, but they're from later years. Indeed a mighty fine bunch of recordings! How would Getz fit in with the recent "Verve was so conservative" discussion? His Roost recordings have an absolute freshness to them, maybe the 50s sessions are already more "classicist" in comparison? Somehow Getz seems to evade classifications, I wouldn't call him a bop musician, but then I wouldn't know quite what to call him...