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I would bring 8 iPods and a solar charger.

The live show argument would be more compelling if every non-classical (and non-jazz) live show I ever went to, except for two or three, didn't sound like complete crap.

I like boxes with larger books. The tiny little CD books are the worst thing to happen to music sold at retail, since, well, maybe ever. OTOH, I'd love for Mosaic to start doing boxed sets as regular hard cover books for notes and with a USB stick or download code inside. Ripping 15CD sets is tedious. LP + download also has a lot of potential.

iTunes match, which is the Apple service for making music that you did not buy at the iTunes store available to you online, is not free. It doesn't cost all that much compared to owning a few $400 large iPods ... but it's not free.

Very exciting.

That's at least a second gen shuffle. The first gen were white and plastic. As an exercise for science I jammed a listenable ripped copy of The Ring into one back when they first game out.

You can buy the iPod touch ... which is similar to the phone but without the phone parts. Not quite as much storage either.

Google for "rhino mono monday"

The Rhino mono stuff is also on iTunes. Fantastic!

That piece was OK as far as it went, but the discussion of compressed formats was a bit painful. They talk about the "higher quality" iTunes Plus as if it's a new thing, when really it's been around since 2007. The part at the beginning when the host mixed up audio compression (of dynamic range) with data compression also made me nuts, but then I'm a grump. Anyway, in a few (maybe zero) years lossless will be just as "portable" as 128K MP3 used to be earlier, just because of the growth in bandwidth and storage capacity.

The Janowski Ring is only $30. http://www.amazon.com/Wagner-Ring-Nibelungen-Richard/dp/B009EJSV2C Might be worth it just for the books.

The Condon Mosaic set. Was always mad that I missed it.

Where the hell do you go to get bits of Mosaic sets? MG I've seen random Mosaic disk at Half Priced Books, of all places.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/youtube-star-plays-videogames-earns-4-million-a-year-1402939896

Relatively small markets supporting a seemingly large number of releases is nothing new. Classical CDs are if anything an even smaller market than Jazz (maybe, maybe not), but there are thousands of releases every year. To prove it you can subscribe to (say) American Record Guide and read 300 pages of reviews every two months. I've never quite understood it. At least these days it's pretty easy to *find* the stuff reviewed in the magazine though. Back in the day you had to drive to Tower Records in a major city (or equivalent) to have any chance at all.

The title of this thread tickled a long lost memory in the back of my head. Then I remembered that I bought an LP by this guy more than 20 years ago based on a review in Cadence (I think) or just by picking albums at random from the Cadence list. Then I was happy to find that the album I had bought is available for download...and on spotify. What an interesting world.

So what you mean is that you have other hardware that takes digital inputs that are not USB (e.g. coax or optical) and you want a converter to go from USB to those inputs that does not involve another D->A->D stage.

The ones in the HDMI cable are also subject to HDCP. USB can be annoying if you want long cable runs and no one seems to be able to make the power over USB reliable. But I see no reason why it's not sufficient to feed a DAC. Personally though, I use AirPlay.

Of course, people might disagree... http://properdiscord.com/2014/07/22/scott-timberg-ive-got-a-bone-to-pick-with-you/ Heh.

FWIW, I liked the piece because it complained about the terrible state of the metadata in the online stores, especially on Jazz and Classical recordings and most especially in the back catalog. I don't really like CDs ... but I like having my own copy of all the digital files. So downloads+ streaming for spot checks is my ideal. Especially if the session info and notes are in a nice PDF file.

Back in the day I bought the Bruckner 7th by Eichhorn and the Linz Orchestra. I could only afford one at the time and never managed to get any more and now they have now been out of print for a long time. Fantastic recording though. So I wonder if this is a lie or not, but I hope it isn't. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/CMCD-10008 Anyway, had to order it to find out.

A few good points here http://www.salon.com/2014/07/20/its_not_just_david_byrne_and_radiohead_spotify_pandora_and_how_streaming_music_kills_jazz_and_classical/

http://www.mosaicrecords.com/discography.asp?number=MS-033&pric.. Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin (MS-033)

FWIW, I did not mean to imply that photos and media don't look better on the retina screen. They do. I just personally find the effect to be more subtle than with text, and mostly about color depth vs. raw resolution. I think it has to do with how images get scaled from a fixed resolution whereas fonts are stored as curves and rendered at as high a resolution as you want. But I'm not sure. In any case, it's always a shock to go back to my plain old large screen at work after starting at a retina laptop all weekend.

Actually, retina isn't a huge difference for photos and other media (although the color is much better). The biggest difference is actually in the quality of the *text* display.