The forced replacement of my iPhone has prompted me to finally consolidate all the iTunes libraries and mp3 downloads I had kicking around across various hard drives. It’s prompted me to fill a few gaps; and the Bluetooth headphones I found at CEX a while back are now proving useful (my iPod Classic doesn’t support Bluetooth - it’s over 15 years old now and still working well). However, I find the headphones uncomfortable for extended wear - the crown is rather tight and the flat earphones squash my ears; I much prefer a proper earcup style.
Cuurently listening to Charlie Parker - Carvin’ the Bird. This was one of my father’s CDs we brought back from the Lebanon after he died. Very trad.
Also played today: The Flash Girls - Play Each Morning Wild Queen. The Flash Girls are a duo of Emma Bull (Mrs Will Shetterley) and The Fabulous Lorraine. This album is pretty rare and virtually unobtainable; I got lucky on Ebay recently - I’d only ever had a couple of tracks from the Wordpress site. Basically, modern folk in a trad style.
Also, Enya - And Winter Came. Finally ripped the CD; I picked it up last year. I thought it quite typical of Enya’s style.
Coming up later on: Procol Harum - Novum. Won’t be any more since Gary Brooker died last year. I remember seeing them at The Colston Hall (as it was then) back in the late 70s.
The pleasant thing about the new iPhone is the massively improved battery life from my old 2017 model. I’ve played 2 albums via the Music app using the BT headphones and the battery is still at 100%. The bad thing is that importing my iTunes library into Music on the new iMac has meant I lost much of the original downloaded artwork necessitating scrapping the imported library, and reverting to iTunes on the MacBook Pro (at least until it’s all cleaned up and properly consolidated). Then the final transfer to the new iMac will happen, and I will keep back-up iTunes media over on GDrive.
Still, it did mean the clean-up is now happening spotting missing files everywhere, and ‘I have that CD - why isn’t it in iTunes?’. I‘ve also found missing downloads from various sources - thank goodness Cyan Worlds was able to point me at their webstore to retrieve a Kickstarter bonus that vanished from Bandcamp. Funnily enough, I found the tracks on the iPod, but not the original media files. Weird.
Cuurently listening to Charlie Parker - Carvin’ the Bird. This was one of my father’s CDs we brought back from the Lebanon after he died. Very trad.
Also played today: The Flash Girls - Play Each Morning Wild Queen. The Flash Girls are a duo of Emma Bull (Mrs Will Shetterley) and The Fabulous Lorraine. This album is pretty rare and virtually unobtainable; I got lucky on Ebay recently - I’d only ever had a couple of tracks from the Wordpress site. Basically, modern folk in a trad style.
Also, Enya - And Winter Came. Finally ripped the CD; I picked it up last year. I thought it quite typical of Enya’s style.
Coming up later on: Procol Harum - Novum. Won’t be any more since Gary Brooker died last year. I remember seeing them at The Colston Hall (as it was then) back in the late 70s.
The pleasant thing about the new iPhone is the massively improved battery life from my old 2017 model. I’ve played 2 albums via the Music app using the BT headphones and the battery is still at 100%. The bad thing is that importing my iTunes library into Music on the new iMac has meant I lost much of the original downloaded artwork necessitating scrapping the imported library, and reverting to iTunes on the MacBook Pro (at least until it’s all cleaned up and properly consolidated). Then the final transfer to the new iMac will happen, and I will keep back-up iTunes media over on GDrive.
Still, it did mean the clean-up is now happening spotting missing files everywhere, and ‘I have that CD - why isn’t it in iTunes?’. I‘ve also found missing downloads from various sources - thank goodness Cyan Worlds was able to point me at their webstore to retrieve a Kickstarter bonus that vanished from Bandcamp. Funnily enough, I found the tracks on the iPod, but not the original media files. Weird.
