randyhersom

I wanted to say more about Harrison but wasn't finding the words, not being very wordy to begin with. But I read another thread on Bill Withers mentioning his first three albums and it struck me that the personalities were very similar - plainspoken, soulful and down to earth in the extreme. Make no mistake, his main interest was in jazz and he had relatively little involvement in popular music, but when I ask myself how to let another music fan what Harrison was like, well this fits. Yes Indeedy.

The search function when you run Squeeze Center from your computer is nice. I also noticed that pieces of MySQL are loaded with it, and found a 150mb database file. Wonder how I might be able to query it?

I'm telling you, the very best house music (and it's waaaaaaay underground, btw) is so damn chock full of information as to be the only true (ok, "truest") "music of now" that I've heard. But it ain't about "songs" nearly as much as it is about sound, texture, and peacefully and prosperously populating multiple layers of a sonic landscape. I believe you and anticipated such a post when I started the thread... I definitely need to check more of said music out. Music (in general, as a response to the circumstances around it) doesn't die; people do. Were you planning to fork over any names, Mr. Sangrey??? Cash's statement didn't strike me as particularly egotistical or judgemental. I agree with the basics, and have no problem if a suburbanite making music for suburbanites likes to flavor it with a little Brooks, Haggard or Frizell. No need for felony convictions or cotton picking scars.

Check with a Certified Public Accountant!

The Squeezebox boom arrived, and I looked in the room where the DSL comes in to find that my router wasn't wireless. Running a cable between rooms was a huge hassle that I don't want to endure again, so I bought a Wireless G router and had my stepson replace the wired one. When I got the WPA password from him, I fired up the Squeezebox. The software asked for the name of THE music files directory. I have dozens spread over multiple drives. I picked the largest and it took a couple hours to digest the huge directory and was playing tunes fairly quickly after that. Then I got creative and changed to my second largest directory, selecting "scan for new and changed files" thinking it would keep my old files and add to them. Abdullah Ibrahim promptly stopped playing and my first directory's music could not be selected after that. So it makes sense to combine your directories before installing Squeezebox, since you'll end up doing it anyway. Also, you may want to reboot after a very large rescan, as things got very slow when I combined and rescanned. After a reboot, the slows were gone. I like it, but it may not be better than Windows Media Player just yet. Fewer lags, but not yet as flexible. At work, we've had over 50% failure rate within two years on the new 500GB-1TB external drives. So the data rot discussion above needs considering. I'm planning to copy my master directory to another external hard drive and take it to work.

A little Googling led to Joey Defrancesco - The Authorized Bootleg which features a vocalist on I'm in the Mood for Love.

I believe Trudy Pitts sang some, and also accompanied a male vocalist Mr. C.

I ordered a Squeezebox Boom. It'll be more hassle to set up initially, but thay had a site that answered a couple of my questions and having the hard drive attached to both my computer and the Squeezebox means I don't have to copy new stuff over every time I want to play it. QUOTE (randyhersom @ Mar 21 2009, 08:21 AM) In a related question, can you hook up both a DVD recorder and a DVD Home Theater System combo to the same TV? QUOTE (..impossible) Why not? umm, ... because I don't know how? ... because it's a hardware problem and I'm a software guy? ... ??? I don't want it to be inconvenient to listen to music and have the TV running because I actually do it fairly often. DVD recorders don't tend to have the same feature sets that some of the attractive oddball players such as the Sony 300/400 disc or the Unirex 3DVD changer with USB and SD memory ports, so knowing whether you just daisy chain, or use some sort of splitter is useful an pondering the options. Since I already have a Squeezebox on the way, I will probably just go with a DVD recorder.

Looks like you aready need to be running a wireless network to hit your hard drive. Does it support reasonable wireless security options, or do you have to leave your home network wide open to use it? I'm waffling between a few Unirex options and the squeezebox. In a related question, can you hook up both a DVD recorder and a DVD Home Theater System combo to the same TV?

Thanks Rockefeller, I'm interested in hearing about high and low end solutions and hope some others may find the discussion useful as well.

A google on Boombox USB port revealed the interesting looking UNIREX RX-1000 DVD. Playing DVD's full of MP3s is a nice feature, and if there is a reasonable way to select music on devices attached to the USB port, this could be a very nice unit. Terabytes of tunes for the low rent district!

Thanks RDK, that zooms to the head of the list, but I still don't see where I can attach an external USB drive with my music files on it. The specs talk mainly about sources like Rhapsody and internet radio.

I forgot to google first. Denon and Sony seem to have newish products that are not substantially cheaper than a dedicated computer. Nobody seems to be touting USB port for connecting external hard drive, which would be a key feature for me. The 400 disk Sony DVD/CD may still be the best immediate soultion for hosting music files in bulk, but that's a lot of transferring. Love to hear about any products I'm missing.

Stereo equipment is getting hard to find these days. When I play music through my computer, I'm often utilizing my computer in other ways and the sound breaks up when the computer can't keep up. So has anybody built a stereo you can attach a hard drive to and play mp3/flac/wav/whatever else from the hard drive?

Try Carnival, clifford_thronton. Billy Harper will pull you in.

Googling: electrecord voicu Prokofiev revealed an eBay seller that has the Prokofiev in a similar father-son set, as well as the Debussy et al I already have at a slightly cheaper price.

It arrived and I've been enjoying it. The violin is less up-front than in the Naxos, but the quiet, rhapsodic playing very much suits the pieces he has chosen. The Enescu sonata #2 is new to me, as is Voicu's rendition of the Ravel. The Debussy and Milhaud were as fine as I remembered them. The two symphonic warhorses recorded live by his son are fine by my ears, haven't skipped over them yet. I might hunt again and see if they have the Prokofiev sonata from the original London Treasury on another CD.

I had to go read Varese's name when I had 25 eMusic downloads left. The two Naxos volumes knocked that down to 2 and I found a Joe Maneri to finish them off. Been looking forward to checking these out, I fondly remember hearing Ionisation in a music class.

Hell Yeah! on Bonnie Raitt. Count Basie might have been dissapointed to find out Jummy Rushing wasn't a jazz singer.

Joan Armatrading is my personal favorite, with Van Morrison, Smokey Robinson and Bruce Springsteen not far behind. I'll also concur on Al Green and Kate Bush.

Loving what I've heard so far of The Ultimate Frog. Stylistically, it's closer to Ralph Towner on ECM than Brotzmann on Okka.

clifford_thornton's reply to my question on a thread about Guiseppe Logan's return to playing alerted me to Alipio C Neto, Aram Shelton and Matt Bauder and a bit of emusicing later, I have heard all three and been back for seconds on Alipio C Neto. Strong stuff, full of passion but never out of control. I'm also a fan of James Finn's Ginkgo Leaf releases and would like to hear the two early dates of his I haven't heard yet.

A great man and a profound influence in my life. RIP Harrison.

Yeah, it's a pronunciation thicket alright! Great record... Yeah, that's the thicket!

I like most Jarrett, and Solo Concerts Bremen Lausanne and Oregon - Winter Light were important bridges in getting me from rock fan only to fan of all music with a concentration in jazz. Melodrama is a good thing to me - Lee Morgan's version of In What Direction are You Headed, Derek and the Dominos' Layla and their version of Little Wing, Woody Shaw's Obsequious. I paid less attention during the Standards Trio period, but like much of what I have heard, I just didn't hear it as many times. I'm looking forward to hearing new solo music and can't say I have disliked any solo Jarrett. I actually do feel some distraction from the vocalizing, as I do with Walt Dickerson, but I find both artists so sublimely lyrical that it's a small price to pay. In rare circumstances a grunt at a climactic moment works musically better than its absence would have. Jarrett's treatment of audiences is a minus, but he's well behind Getz and Miles in the extramusical baggage department and probably behind Art Pepper too. I'm glad he played for us, and continues to. Dedicated persistent and one sided attacks start to communicate more about the attacker than the target.