100% with you there.. I live in an Apple free zone these days. My wife though still has my old first gen iPod, which IMHO despite the lack of support for any lossless format was I think the best sounding iPod made.
Scott, you are light years ahead of me on the TV thing, I still am running analog sets connected to sat receivers. Mine in particular was made in the previous century.
Continues to serve adequately for the moment.
I had some friends traveling in Thailand who wanted to catch the Game of Thrones Finale, but it was almost impossible to find on a TV there.
So they set up a Plex client on their tablet and where able to stream it from my home in Florida.
Absurd? A bit, yeah. But also nice to be able to access your libraries at home from anywhere in the world on pretty much any device with an internet connection.
To me that’s simple. To others that’s ridiculous.
Also I have quite a few years ahead of me before I can be a set in my ways curmudgeon. I am, however, really looking forward to it.
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You’re asking the wrong guy about Weather Report! I have none in my collection to give you any insights. They’re jazz fusion? Herbie, Mahavishnu or Miles’ on the corner period or later then might be a good place to start.
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If you want a completely out there answer you haven’t heard before, The Grodeck Whipperjenny, maybe?
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Ah, I misunderstood. Where does it get this information? Couldn't you make it think you had some Weather Report in your collection and see if it came up with similar artists?
How long will it be before some company markets laser trimmed cryo treated rubinium tubed interconnects, so those random photons are encoded with audio information, and emerge in neatly organised triplets, at a mere 3000 kilometres per second?
Pretty interesting stuff happening at MIT these days. Crystal light may be possible.
Pretty interesting stuff happening at MIT these days. Crystal light may be possible.
It uses algorithms, scrapes the web, analyzes other content in your library, pulls data from listener tastes who agree to provide data feedback to the provider.... then I imagine as time goes on its reviewed and cleaned up by human staff.
The longer these services are out the more intelligent and precise they are becoming.
Yes I can.
Return to Forever, Jaco Pastorius, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea Electrik Band, Joe Zawinul, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jean Luc Ponty, The Brecker Brothers, Stanley Clark, Pat Metheny Group, Allan Holdsworth, Yellowjackets, Brand X, Al Di Meola, Victor Wooten
Looks about right.
Recommendations for similar artists may not just mean they come from same genre / style but also sharing personnel, record label, et al.
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I'm a bit surprised to be honest, I would have thought early WR would have been a logical step from Sun Ra, how many of his albums in your collection? They went through a number of changes, not just fusion Weather Report - Wikipedia
1000$ network cables. Nothing new but the marketing should have been illegal. At least in many countries it is.
RJ/E Ethernet
RJ/E Ethernet
To be honest I never gave them much of a chance. I threw on one side of a later period album that I grabbed for a quarter and it didn’t do it for me. Maybe I was too biased. I like Herbie Hancock and Miles and the more straightforward funky stuff but a lot of the jazz fusion stuff feels just kind of dated and hokey to me.
Also, I didn’t grow up in this era so I did not develop my tastes in a linear way.
I went more in the BYG/Actuel, FMP and Black Saint records direction if you are familiar.
I found Alice Coltrane before John Coltrane. I listened to John Coltrane’s later period before his early period. I listened to Yoko Ono records before John Lennon’s solo work. So, logical steps is not my forte in this department.
Mostly it was due to a musical mentor of sorts loaning me these records and it went from there.
Not that I don’t appreciate My Favorite Things, or can’t get behind Stan Getz or Duke. I also am big on John and George’s solo stuff. I’m just illustrating the trajectory.
Also, I didn’t grow up in this era so I did not develop my tastes in a linear way.
I went more in the BYG/Actuel, FMP and Black Saint records direction if you are familiar.
I found Alice Coltrane before John Coltrane. I listened to John Coltrane’s later period before his early period. I listened to Yoko Ono records before John Lennon’s solo work. So, logical steps is not my forte in this department.
Mostly it was due to a musical mentor of sorts loaning me these records and it went from there.
Not that I don’t appreciate My Favorite Things, or can’t get behind Stan Getz or Duke. I also am big on John and George’s solo stuff. I’m just illustrating the trajectory.
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I imagine most people discover music in a very similar and random way, at least to begin with, they hear whatever they are being exposed to. Then if they are interested enough they may want to learn more by travelling back in time and also other places. I find the internet absolutely fantastic for this, it's about all I use it for.
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Its a shame that ripping DVD's and Bluray discs is illegal though. But they'll never find out, its an act you do in your house without having to use the internet. Backing up or Copying CD's is legal though and sharing it with your family is legal but any further than that its not. Because CD's have no copy protection and there is fair use laws there for putting a copy of a cd onto a smartphone or computer.
But its entirely different for DVD's and Bluray discs, to copy those to a hard drive you have to crack encryption on them and that is highly illegal.
Though they expect to change that sometime soon, the soon is never near.
I wouldn't take it through an airport. I'm concerned mostly about them confiscating it.
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I'm seriously considering a box set of pretty much the complete works of Pierre Henry. I think I am drifting to the odd side
There must inevitably come a time when any self-respecting nonconformist is going to tire of listening to The Well-Tempered Clavier
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