Kevin Bresnahan

Do you have a copy of Click Repair? I don't even know if it's still available, but I remember it worked very well. I used it on a couple of needle drops with a lot of noise and I could barely tell they were there after I was done. It leaves the music behind too. I'd have to look to see if I still have a working copy.

Isn't a MyBook hooked to a Linux PC simply going to show up as a storage device? I think you'd have to run JRiver from the RPI mini-PC (as GregK mentions above) but I would think that you could make it work. I would ask GregK if he thought it could work for you. BTW - since I started this thread, two new things happened. One was Mother's Day, which killed this past weekend for trying this new system out. The second was that after investigating Moode Audio further, the interface is a web GUI. I decided to switch to Volumio, which runs from an app. On my phone, I'd rather run an app than have to open Chrome every time I want to access it, especially since I may want to use Chrome for tther things while playing music. I hope to try it out later this week.

Well, at least I know what "illness" caused him to have to pull out from that Javon Jackson gig. It seems that "having your leg amputated" is a bit beyond an "illness" though.

I ordered that Hill LP. Not my favorite Hill session but I don't have the CD and I'd like to hear what Addey did here so...

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/10/995507160/curtis-fuller-leading-trombonist-of-jazzs-detroit-wave-dies-at-86

I know it's not from Belgium and I know it's not blonde, but if you like smooth Belgian beers "on the East Coast" (of the US I assume), you should try one of these:

The master tape (or tapes?) for "Passing Ships" was done using an 8 track recorder. I've read that it was one Van Gelder's first attempts at multi-track recording. There was an incomplete stereo master tape in the vault and originally, Michael Cuscuna thought the multi-track tapes were lost. When he found them, he had Malcolm Addey digitally mix them down to stereo for the 2003 CD. I believe that Andrew Hill approved that final CD mix. Addey re-mixed these 8 track masters in the analog domain to create a new analog stereo master tape specifically for this new Tone Poet LP.

I have this record but haven't spun it in a long while. I look at this cover and remember that when I initially saw it while flipping through the bins, I thought it had an egg on the cover.

A great beer that is very hard to find here in the US. Be careful with that stuff... if I remember correctly, it has very high alcohol content.

Blue Note actually had Malcolm Addey go back to the original analog multitracks to re-mix this to stereo in the analog domain for this LP, so it should sound different just because of that.

Several musicians on Facebook are reporting that Curtis Fuller has died. Curtis was the leader at the first Jazz show I ever attended. I was big into Coltrane's "Blue Trane" then and Curtis was the last living member of that band so I had to see him. I was lucky to have caught him live many times over the years. One of the best times was when an edition of the Jazztet came to town. Him & Benny in the frontline was something special.

RVG did remaster a few of those Superbit Jazz Classics too.

I've read a few stories of people having their micro SD cards dying after a year or two. It seems to be a good idea to boot from an external SSD instead of a micro SD. Are you considering this? I am actually thinking about formatting a second micro SD with a Volumio system image so that I can compare Volumio & Moode as well as having a backup ready in the case of failure. I've wanted to go with JRiver for years but I just can't justify the cost. There are so many free player apps. I suppose if I wanted to use JRiver's ripping capabilities, it might be more worthwhile, but Exact Audio Copy has served me well for years.

Billie & DeDe Pierce - New Orleans - The Living Legends (Riverside/OJC)

I think you could access the NAS with the RPI. It has network access like any PC and you can also make it a WiFi hotspot if you wanted to connect it directly. I thought about hooking up one of my external SSD drives to my D-Link router as sort of a "half-assed NAS", but that would still require a PC. Turning on the PC every time I want to play some mp3s is a PIA. I have a Roku on my TV and I often find myself using the Sirius/XM app with the TV speakers before going through the trouble of booting the whole PC setup. I also have a large micro SD full of music on my Samsung Galaxy phone and I use that out on the back deck with a little Bose Soundlink Color II blue Tooth speaker. But the sound is just eh - or, in other words, "Good enough for sitting on the back deck sipping a drink". If that Allo Boss2 wasn't so damn ugly, I think I would've gone for one. Their DAC cards are supposed to be the best. Unfortunately, to get that "best" sound, you need to buy a $150 dual power supply. Ouch. If I got the Boss2, I think I would've just gotten the single supply and taken the small hit in SQ.

Stash was such a weird label. Cheesy/amateur artwork that was instantly identifiable as "Stash" but often great music inside.

I am going to bump this up again. How about $25?

Bob Belden's "Karu" This is an unissued session that Bob gave me years ago. I think he made it for (or was commissioned by?) a Miami nightclub of the same name. It's more of an ambient/trance/dance type of recording. I once asked Tim Hagans if he was the trumpeter on this but he never got back to me. It does sound like him. It looks like it was intended to be a full album: Karu 5:59 Ramsey 5:39 Ocean of Sorrow 5:34 Beach 5:07 Kinsey 5:09 K2 6:04 Floodplain 5:44 Man From Mars 3:16 Smooth 5:14 Trip 6:16

Sorry - I am an engineer. I sometimes write wordy posts. If this is TLDR, I won't mind if you skip it. For the past 4 or 5 years, I've been using an old HP laptop running Linux Ubuntu with an external hard drive that has my music library (in VBR mp3 format) on it with playback via the GMusicPlayer app. While I do like this setup, it is rather inconvenient. I have to boot up the PC, turn on my TV, switch to the HDMI input to bring up the PC desktop, grab the wireless keyboard & mouse, make sure the laptop is set to output the audio via the line out (not via HDMI) and then I click through my library to find music to play. To make matters worse, my daughter's rescue dog is fascinated by the mouse moving across the screen, so she whines and barks the whole time the TV is on. Lately, I've been intrigued by the new(er) Raspberry PI 4 "mini PC" (RPI for short) for use as a digital music streamer. Looking into it, I can use this mini PC without any DAC, as my Marantz PM-7005 integrated amp has a USB input for it's built-in DAC. It even comes with an Ethernet port and WiFi built-in. It really is a mini PC. I ordered an RPI 4 card (4GB version) for $68.91: a Fliirc case (best thermal case out there) for $15.95 A generic 5.1 V, 3 A USB-C power supply with built-in on/off switch ($9.99) And then, just in case, I ordered a mini HDMI to HDMI cable so that if I have to, I can use this with my TV. Maybe even just to make set-up a little easier. It was $11.99. My music is stored on a 1 TB Samsung T7 SSD external hard drive. It's one of 3 that I use. I have 2 others as backups for my backups. I have to have backups with so much music on there. I cannot lose this library as it would take years to recreate. I am planning to run the RPI 4 with a Moode Audio operating system and control it using my Android (Samsung Galaxy S7) phone to access & play my music. I already flashed the Moode Audio operating system to a Micro SD card I had in my pile of memory cards. I may eventually switch over to have it boot from an external SSD hard drive due to longevity concerns with micro SD cards. I'm going to run a USB cable to my DAC input on my Marantz so no DAC card needed for the RPI. If I needed a DAC, I'd look at either a HiFi Berry card or a Allo Boss card. My expectation is that I'll be able to turn on this RPI mini-PC, turn on my Marantz amp, set it to the external DAC input, open the app on my phone and be playing music in seconds (with no dog barking in the background). Fingers will be crossed. BTW - if someone wants a more "turn key" RPI media streamer, this (rather ugly IMO) Allo Boss2 player is supposed to sound great and comes ready to go: BTW II - if you stream audio, this setup works well for that too. In fact, more people use this set-to to stream music from places like Spotify, Qubuz & Tidal than from an external hard drive like I will be doing. As I said, it has hardwired or wireless internet connections. If this works, I am planning to build another for my office at work. The company I work has employed software that encrypts all external media and this encryption software corrupts my music files (Digital Guardian is shit software).

Steve Grossman/Cedar Walton/David Williams/Billy Higgins - Love Is The Thing (Red Records). I forgot I had this one. I was rifling through the LP rack to find something to play and said, "I have a Steve Grossman LP?" Grossman doing his best impersonation of Coltrane at times. Why did Red Records go with such flimsy card stock for their LP sleeves? Bassist David Williams is the only one left from this date now. It just doesn't seem that long ago that I was seeing this rhythm section backing Jackie Mac.That either means I'm getting old or senile.

https://harmonicsdb.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/larry-young/

It is strange that these two events happened back to back like this. It's been many years since I've had any problems... maybe even a decade or more. On the positive side, if this discogs seller stiffs me in a way that PayPal can't give me a refund, it's not a lot of money.

I had my second Phizer shot and thought I avoided any side effects because I still felt fine ~24 hours after the shot. Then I suddenly didn't feel so good. Tired, body aches & and a low-grade (100.5) fever. Drank a big glass of water, took some ibuprofen and napped on the couch. About 6 hours later, I was back to normal.

I assume Mike has that but he has always told me that if I ever find that Discovery CD, pick it up. If he didn't have it in his hand once (he didn't buy it unfortunately), I would not believe that it was even produced due to the lack of any evidence of its existence.

So I messaged the seller twice, once to ask if they could confirm that the CD actually shipped on April 5th and again to ask for the USPS tracking number. No reply for 4 days so I had to open a ticket. Discogs actually suspends the seller's account until they respond.