#31
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 3:49 pm
It's hard to imagine any reasonable person finding fault with what you say, Ray.
I've been culling 1.3Terror bites of vortexbox down to just over 0.8Tb and there is more to go. Vinyl aside - 0.8Tb is still more than I need to listen too. Life is toooooo short.
And, as I find CDs so cheap generally it is a joy to buy the odd e.g. Furtwanger conducting Ludwig van and, finding it a waste of money (imho) cast it into the bottomless pit that is my local Cancer Relief.Org charity shop, whereas through gritted teeth I find that Herbert von K is pretty good, lively, anyway and my favourite remains George Solti with the Chicago Symph.Orch. despit Colin Davis' latest attempts. The same can be said for other pieces of music.
Now, as a proud squeezebox owner I do listen to the 'radio' occasionaly, just idling away, as if running my hand in the stream, as the punt moves slowly on down the river of musical enjoyment. As I understand it though, when streaming, it is all water under the bridge, so to speak, as when its played its played and nothing can bring the music back to listen to a particuar section of the music that needs a closer listen; a whole track, a movement or a few bars here or what the saxophonist is doing to the bass guitarist there. With a CD, vinyl, mp3 or SB I can pause, clunk backwards and play it again. Can this be done with a streamer? I appreciate this can be done with the BBC as 'catch up' but that is for a whole programme n'est-ce pas? and it would still need 'recording' / downloading for a more surgical application?
Now, not only haven't I got the time to seriously enlargen my 'music collection', this happens very slowly these days. I have some sympathy for an assertion that if I didn't have any music then streaming could be welcome.
I also don't have much room in the house for much more 'stuff'. Not only do I not have some dear friend to help me set up e.g. a delightful RPi (raspberry) - on my own; I would not get further than getting it out of the box! If many more wires, boxes and devices appear in Bedford Towers I will be lucky if I were only condemned to the East Wing. I strongly suspect the consequences would be much worse.
I've been culling 1.3Terror bites of vortexbox down to just over 0.8Tb and there is more to go. Vinyl aside - 0.8Tb is still more than I need to listen too. Life is toooooo short.
And, as I find CDs so cheap generally it is a joy to buy the odd e.g. Furtwanger conducting Ludwig van and, finding it a waste of money (imho) cast it into the bottomless pit that is my local Cancer Relief.Org charity shop, whereas through gritted teeth I find that Herbert von K is pretty good, lively, anyway and my favourite remains George Solti with the Chicago Symph.Orch. despit Colin Davis' latest attempts. The same can be said for other pieces of music.
Now, as a proud squeezebox owner I do listen to the 'radio' occasionaly, just idling away, as if running my hand in the stream, as the punt moves slowly on down the river of musical enjoyment. As I understand it though, when streaming, it is all water under the bridge, so to speak, as when its played its played and nothing can bring the music back to listen to a particuar section of the music that needs a closer listen; a whole track, a movement or a few bars here or what the saxophonist is doing to the bass guitarist there. With a CD, vinyl, mp3 or SB I can pause, clunk backwards and play it again. Can this be done with a streamer? I appreciate this can be done with the BBC as 'catch up' but that is for a whole programme n'est-ce pas? and it would still need 'recording' / downloading for a more surgical application?
Now, not only haven't I got the time to seriously enlargen my 'music collection', this happens very slowly these days. I have some sympathy for an assertion that if I didn't have any music then streaming could be welcome.
I also don't have much room in the house for much more 'stuff'. Not only do I not have some dear friend to help me set up e.g. a delightful RPi (raspberry) - on my own; I would not get further than getting it out of the box! If many more wires, boxes and devices appear in Bedford Towers I will be lucky if I were only condemned to the East Wing. I strongly suspect the consequences would be much worse.