mikeymad

Cheers Adam - Happy Birthday...

^^ I listened to that the other day and had a very similar thought. Didn't post because of it, glad you did. Now: I wasn't sure from the beginning of the opening number. But very good. Added albums to my queue. (hmmm no wonder my listening queue never goes down)

Nat King Cole At The Sands by Nat King Cole - 1966 https://album.link/i/1442983402 Example: Always a treat to hear Nat sing and play. Even when it is this very very sad song about Otis.

So, I have been doing some testing for a little bit. I signed up for the 30 day trial with the annual plan for Qobuz. And I have to say at this point I will not be renewing TIDAL in Feb. Almost everything that I am experiencing - I am liking. Down to little things like being able to choose the Audio output mode. With the Wasapi (Exclusive) mode to bypass the windows processing. And actually showing the bitrates - confirmed by the iFi bit rate colors. I transfered my collections over from TIDAL -- probably shouldn't have - my queue is over 600 albums to listen to. And it lost the order in which they were added in TIDAL. The interface on the phone, tablet and windows app are all good. With some additional features to sort and subselect my album lists will help me out. I already discovered a few things in my album list that I forgot about in the TIDAL list. But the biggest feature being the music buffering. I maxed it out at 30 seconds and it also seems to do some additional imports of upcoming tracks to keep the music playing. And the payer shows how much it has buffered against the current playback position. I know that it seems like a little thing, but when you didn't have it before, it is nice to see. Now with the Elon internets there still can be dropouts that are longer than its buffering, but it only happened once when there was a pause in the Qobuz playback. I was doing a lot of back to back listening comparisons with TIDAL and it dropped out 4 times in the same time frame. So I am at least 3x less frustrated. If I do find it to be an ongoing issue with Qobuz, I do have the option to download the tracks on all my devices. The only downside that I have seen so far is that not all that I want to listen to is in the Qobuz catalog. I know that both services have similar title counts, but they are different catalogs for sure. Out of my 600 or so albums in my queue there were more than a dozen that Qobuz didn't have. Now I am sure there are titles that are on Qobuz and not in the other, but it was noticeable. Not the biggest deal, but when Mikey wants to listen to something - he wants to listen to it!!!

After posting in the other thread, I just had to listen to the whole thing. P.D.Q. Bach: Music for an Awful Lot of Winds & Percussion by Peter Schickele (1992) https://album.link/i/1615812383 (it is on more services - needs to be updated) Example: I remember when I got these records back in the day and impressed that they were from Telarc. Good recordings. RIP P.D.Q.

aw.. RIP indeed Peter... (PDQ) Still music that makes me laugh out loud.

Watching these guys do this thing...

No Ric - you are not allowed to go to Finland...

Happy Birthday G.. May you eat all the bacon curry usual ice cream that you can find.. Cheers...

Geologists are crazy. Oooo volcano - lets run towards it with a bucket and a lava grabber. But they are not even wearing the big spaceman silver lava suits.

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Based on this: This The Journey Matteo Mancuso 2023 https://album.link/i/1680034607 Example: Jazz, Rock, Fusion, the album covers a lot of ground. Mostly I think of it as a jazz guitar instrumental album. At least that is why I would return to it for future listening. I liked the interview to see his techniques, which are really cool, before listening. Techniques only matter to me when I can hear them in the final product, which now I can, and I am not sure I would have before. Look forward to future growth as a writer.

For Swinging Livers Only (Live, 1964) Allan Sherman 1964 https://album.link/i/1261677495 Example:

^^ I have had that on the top of my queue for a couple week now and have been listening to it on and off, but didn't get around to posting yet, great minds. I really liked it, as well as her 2019 release that I have been listening to as well. When You're Ready Molly Tuttle 2019 https://album.link/i/1449784671 Example: Pretty close to perfect little songs, and they can play...

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.