Whats playing on your system today?

I often just don’t get whatever Beck is trying to do. 

Music library playing tracks in random order.  Currently Vivaldi 4 seasons. Recently Children's Village of Jerusalem, Eagles, Agent Orange, The Romeros, Traffic, Astrud Gilberto, Miles Davis. 

Need to queue up Rite of Spring soon.  Start some riots and all that...  😎


Nice to to be able to just relax and let the computer decide what I should hear next. 

Yuri by Oi Va Voy.   Klezmer pop anyone?  

Ain't Got No Home.  The Band's version.  Yes....

Devo - What we Do Is What We Do.   Should be their theme song.  👷🏻

Currently Rawhide by Link Wray.  Awesome!    Sounds like a Sota audiophile recording.  

Now Apache. Jeff Beck version.  Also awesome.    I have favorites queued up.  It's Twangy surf guitar day here today.  

🎸🎸🎸

The Prisoners Song by Chet Atkins. And Extreme Ways by Moby

Thumbs up for Collective Soul.  Hugely underappreciated pop/rock act.

Was just listening to and reading about Morrison Hotel as well. 👌

Enjoying the weather out on the deck listening to Hot Tuna "Burgers" on the, Minimus 7s.  

Muse The Resistance.   Audiophiles that love good pop/rock music,  classical music,  the bombast of  Queen and good sound will love this one. 

Nutty hadn't seen that one.

My Muse collection is pretty complete but a Muse GH CD done well sounds like a winner.

Johnny Cash and Jonie Mitchell "Girl from the North Country". 

Music from great Hitchcock movie thrillers.  Found in local public library. 

Ray Davies See My Friends. My teenage daughter actually sits and listens with me in the family room while doing her thing. She soaks it all in quietly and asks me about music playing she does not know of all genres.  Album art and track info displays on big screen tv as we listen.   I usually put my music server on random track play so anything can come up anytime.  She knows a lot about music and likes the 80sand Michael Jackson in particular best.  Plays violin in her school orchestra as well.  It's nice to be able to expose kids to good sound and music of al kinds 

Los Lobos Do the Murray playing now.  

Uriah Heep "July Morning".

Xavier Rudd "Follow the Sun".  Download it.  

'Swamp Thing" by The Grid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFvvLuomw0Y

What speakers are those?

jji,

I do that all the time.   I call it mapman radio, my own personal internet station.   Or like having all your music in your own personal jukebox.   I'm currently listening remotely over an internet connection.  "The End of the World" by Skeeter Davis is playing.

Smb Bingo is good stuff and nice recording. 

Nice.

nutty I picked up Voodoo Moon recently.   Have not had a chance to soak in yet but always enjoy Savoy Brown.    Saw them live for first time a couple years back in an excellent small venue and was not disapointed.

Audio streamer  on random play all afternoon. All kinds of stuff!

That Lady Pts. 1 & 2 by The Isley Brothers

"Island of Hope and Tears" By Nightnoise

"The Wanderer". U2 featuring Johnny Cash. 

Look At Yourself by Uriah Heep .  Really good stuff that I missed somehow way back when.

July morning, still a true classic imho

Yes.  Queuing that up again next....
    

ELP Tarkus.  Awesome recording!

Tarzan Boy - Baltimora

Myrrh by The Church

There are several volumes of a recently released multi (19?) CD box set of soundtrack music from the original Lost In Space tv series I’ve been streaming with spotify. It spans all three seasons but I have mostly been listening to the John Williams works from season 1 which is many of the most memorable scores. So much good stuff there all composed early on by Williams for an offbeat 60s scifi show. Good stuff! Also some works by Bernard Hermann. The works by other composers used seem often lost and far behind I guess an early indicator of Williams talent that was largely not recognized yet when this stuff was composed. 

I've been streaming a lot of Van Morrison both new and old from Spotify of late.    Wow what a motherlode of great recordings and performances so many of which I have never heard before!

"Home on the Range" by The Ames Brothers (Readers Digest Memories and Melodies collection...nice recording)!

That's a good one.

"Ballad of Easy Rider" by The Byrds which for whatever reason is still one of my favorite lp listens start to finish.  

Sending some vinyl to the music server today.  Up currently is "All the World Dances" by David Carroll and his Orchestra a 1961 lp on Mercury Perfect Presence label that is what hifi is all about.  There is even a diagram on the back cover showing location of the various players in the studio that you can use as reference for what you hear.  The music industry and the public really cared about hifi back then when it was all very new.  

Uber I use an art usb phono plus a2d converter to usb on my laptop that hosts the music server on attached usb drive.

I use audacity software on the laptop to capture the digital at cd resolution and then master the digital. I play the entire album into one file then edit it down and identify the tracks. I run normalization and click removal processing on the file with Audacity. Then I write the individual tracks to corresponding flac format files on disk.

Next I use Picard software to quickly tag the files. Finally if needed I use the manual file tagging feature of dbpoweramp to fix any tags needed including adding album art.

Then my plex music server software automatically picks up the new files and adds them to its library. I also use logitech media server and Squeeze devices so I run the rescan function in LMS. At this point the new files are available via both plex and Squeeze box devices.

Finally I attach my backup drive and run Seagate backup software to back up the new files.

I think I picked up the album at Goodwill one day. One of my best finds there.

Today when setting up I found I had volume in only one channel playing the vinyl. Isolated things down to a bad tube in my Audio Research sp16 pre-amps’s phono section. Swapped in a spare tube and good to go. That was the first tube I’ve had go on me in several years. I hate when that happens.

Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield. 

I’m very fortunate to have been able to set up having music wired or broadcast into most any room of my house off various systems. Relaxing in the sunroom with the Dynaudio Contours today. Music server on random play. Currently grooving to Beethoven Missa Solemnis performed by George Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Choir, a Decca recording on CD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missa_solemnis_(Beethoven)

Central Maryland.   Been to Michigan a few  times this time of year.....cold!     Not very sunny here today but it warmed up a bit today and  a nice southern exposure in there nonetheless.  

Big Camel fan practically since their inception. I have most all of their releases from over the years. Check out http://www.progarchives.com/ for a site that demonstrates fan appreciation of Camel, Andrew Latimer, Peter Bardens, and supporting casts over the years. Even somewhat more pop oriented and less progressive late 70’s-early 80’s albums Breathless, I Can See Your House From Here, Nude, and Stationary Traveller are all worth way more than the price of admission as are even later releases Rajaz, Nod and a Wink, and the redo of Snow Goose from a few years back.

Breathless...good stuff! Summer Lightning! Disco Camel>Bee Gees!

Camel’s style and personnel evolved and changed considerably over the years. The only constant is guitarist Andrew Latimer, one of those guys who just always knows how to play the right notes the right way and has always surrounded himself with top notch musicians to-boot. Whether doing straight out rock, prog-rock, pop, or theme albums at the time, the results are always well thought out and deliver artistically in various ways. Much like Genesis and probably more consistent over the years than Pink Floyd.

Don’t miss out on the re-done Snow Goose from just a few years back. Not sure if that one is available on vinyl or not but the CD is done quite well.

"Moving Waves" by Focus.   

John Lennon/Paul McCartney Songbook - Keely Smith. 

"Attorney Street" by Ludwig Satz just came up on my music server. 

I digitized that from the original 78rpm release from probably around the early 1930's that belonged to my parents.  Did not have the tune tagged though I Shazamed it and magically Shazam identified it.  

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KoMGj-FM2ag

I’m streaming The Suppe Overtures MLP recording from my music server. Pretty dynamic and impressive!

Dare I suggest someone might need to get their CD player overhauled. Probably painted the CD the wrong color too.

A good ear waxing might also be in order....can’t hurt.

I’ve been streaming random play from a friend’s remote Plex music server.  Also checked out the new Abbey Road there.