mikeymad

Listening and watching - Chris and Aoife.... 🤓

Sorry to hear about Uncle Jack.. Take care of you and yours Brent. RIP...

Kites Submotion Orchestra 2018 https://album.link/i/1617785253 Example: Been enjoying this album. Some good engineering and lots of listening treats. Example will be a test track for future use.

Was/is a big deal, I leaned/used Pascal, Modula and Modula-2 at various times. Oberon was too new for me to learn during my learning phase, with C making the big push at the time. RIP Niklaus

have a great birthday - cheers

Cheers knucks - happy birthday.

Another pretty good player...

I'll bite, why would they? 🤷‍♂️

Truly a Guitarist's Guitarist.

Thanks, I did see that in the FAQ - they seem to directly recommend it. I thought about starting from scratch - but I have around 500 albums in my queue, so I will probably transfer. I don't really use playlists. I am an old school hip young person, I listen to albums. For Ric - Qobuz has fewer genres - but a lot of the TIDAL ones I don't really use. Neither have Bluegrass at this point. Qobuz: TIDAL:

Thanks Peter, that is good to know. A trade show use case is a great test for what I experience. I would think that a 30 second buffer would be enough, but I like the fact that both the mobile and desktop versions of the app can buffer and download, if needed. I have not found a reliable code yet, so 'yes' I would be interested, but not critical. I am getting close to signing up. Please and thank you. I downloaded Qobuz on my devices, and setup an account, but I have been just playing with settings and interface so far. Also checking content. Looking at 'new release' from TIDAL and Qobuz for Classical and Jazz to start with. There is a good amount of overlap, but definitely some missing items on each side. Some of it is when it was released and when it was added. Some things show up with additional scrolling. No deal breakers here - (other than maybe Laufey=Jazz) If this does not work out - next step - personal satellite.

Thanks again. I do think I will give Qobuz a try, to see if their buffer can bridge the gaps in my downtime. I did see lots of reports of them sounding good, and lots of hate for TiDAL MQA debacle.

ha, TIDAL apparently....

I did try that when I first got the iFi Audio Micro iDSD Signature Finale Portable Headphone Amp and DAC. It worked, just not as convenient if I am also trying to use the phone for anything else for an extended period of time, or not fully charged. I thought I remember it not sounding as good as my laptop out, but would need to do a direct test. But a free Qobuz trial wouldn't hurt as well to test all the variables. thx again

Thanks G - The download would work for phone (just a bit less spontaneity) - but not for windows app unfortunately. I do serious listening more on the laptop than on the phone. I connect to real headphones. Hmmm that would be nice. I might have to explore Qobuz more. Seems that there is an app for windows as well. I could try a Qobuz trial to see if that will work for me. I would pretty much max out any buffer that they would offer. Time to search for a 90 day trial code.. :}

So this may not be worthy of a thread resurrection, but I am wondering about any other experiences. I have been using, and happy with, TIDAL for around a year or so now. But now that I am using the Elon internets I have started to have issues with buffering. Apparently, from my research, TIDAL does not buffer that much data when streaming. I have dropouts with both my phone app and the windows app - I have not directly compared it to the browser version, I stopped using that a while ago. Anyway with Startlink the internet is either on or off, and living amongst the trees causes it to drop more often that I would like. Example (line at the top is good): So, my internet does not really slow down, it is binary, it just turns off. What does this mean Mikey, and get to the question? I am curious about Qobuz and if there is any experience about how much data it buffers to handle these types of outages. TIDAL can handle a few seconds but a 6-10 second drop, like the right hand side of the graph, nope it will stop the song, and sometimes freeze the app. Causing me to kill the app in the task manager, and say bad words. I would have no issues with switching to Qobuz, but only if it would have a better experience (i.e more data buffering). But any thoughts, experience, ideas would be appreciated. I already put the dish on a 33 foot pole, that helped get a lot more stable connection. (ignore the DIY setup - just temp solution for testing)

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus 1963 https://album.link/i/1471359682 Example: Worthy 4 track set. With the monster 18 min side B.

Year end Marathon of very bad movies. But at least we are making fun of them. The only problem I had is that I fell asleep to it, and woke up in the middle of a Joe Don Baker movie. Not the way you want to wake up..

La Petite (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Ludovico Einaudi 2023 https://album.link/i/1711280464 Example: Short album of short tracks. And I like them all. I have not seen this movie, but I have a trigger on TIDAL for Ludovico, so gave it a listen. I wish I could use some of this music to accompany my drone shots, but I would get content matches. Anyway, just lovely melodies. Not a lot of heavy lifting here.

RIP Tom Smothers dead at 86. Lived in Santa Rosa for bay area HCers.

Christmas loaf. First camper bake, whole grain wheat with just a bit of oat flour. Made from new starter. she'll eat...

Cheers Sir Ric -- Happy Birthday.. You can buy all the Camera Equipment you want at any store that is open today... Wishing you a great family day.

Cheers Ken - Merry Birthday and Happy Christmas -

I have not done any real searching this season, been a little busy. But I guess it goes to show that, like most sports for me, if I cannot watch it easily and for free, ...meh... And highlights just don't seem to do it for me, yeah if I followed a sport and I need to know the results of the one game that I missed before the next match. But I just don't follow anything like that, so watching a highlight of a game that I am not invested in, is boring. Now when I am in day 5 of a cricket test match that I have watched all 4 days leading up to it, and it is within a 100 runs of winning The Ashes, I am all in! go sports...

Sad to report that last year, World Curling Youtube stopped broadcasting and posting full length matches. Only highlights. I unsubscribed.