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Dec 27, 2025 - 7:58am
kurtster wrote:
So I checked my inbox around 1 AM this morning and found that I had sold my 1970's UK copy of The Beatles White Album. Oops, it hadn't been re ripped with the new rig yet so I've been up all night cleaning and ripping it getting it ready to ship.
The office was a train wreck from getting my mix ready to go so I had to get that mess cleaned up just to get to all the tools as it were. Had to mix up cleaning solutions as they were all spent and empty. Just as I was going to go to bed and get flat. Silly me.
It's been about a year and a half since I last played it. Damn what a difference a better cleaning and a better turntable makes. So as I sit in the wee hours giving it a good critical listening for the first time in ages, the nuances as so much more pronounced and I'm left thinking WTF were they thinking when they laid all of this down ? WTF were all of us thinking 57 years ago ? They were angry at each other and we were all angry at each other, too, back then. Kinda like everyone is angry with each other now.
As old as this music is, it seems surrealistically relevant right now. Not dated. Not something that I will play again a lot down the road, but damn they was good. Back then they were taken for granted and part of the noise. Now, they seem to shine so much more than they did back then. I guess that the background noise is different or something like that now.
It's time for some Savoy Truffles ! Ta !
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Iâm certain Iâve told this story, but I took the four pictures included with it, and stapled them to my wall.
One day I was lying in bed listening to the Guess Who (probably) and the black light was on. Oooo.
I look up at the wall and think âdang, one of the pictures fell off the wall.â There were three glowing rectangles but one missing.
I got up and went over and all four were still there.
So I checked my inbox around 1 AM this morning and found that I had sold my 1970's UK copy of The Beatles White Album. Oops, it hadn't been re ripped with the new rig yet so I've been up all night cleaning and ripping it getting it ready to ship.
The office was a train wreck from getting my mix ready to go so I had to get that mess cleaned up just to get to all the tools as it were. Had to mix up cleaning solutions as they were all spent and empty. Just as I was going to go to bed and get flat. Silly me.
It's been about a year and a half since I last played it. Damn what a difference a better cleaning and a better turntable makes. So as I sit in the wee hours giving it a good critical listening for the first time in ages, the nuances as so much more pronounced and I'm left thinking WTF were they thinking when they laid all of this down ? WTF were all of us thinking 57 years ago ? They were angry at each other and we were all angry at each other, too, back then. Kinda like everyone is angry with each other now.
As old as this music is, it seems surrealistically relevant right now. Not dated. Not something that I will play again a lot down the road, but damn they was good. Back then they were taken for granted and part of the noise. Now, they seem to shine so much more than they did back then. I guess that the background noise is different or something like that now.
The only thing I wanted/got from my dad's "estate" when he died (his wife didn't tell us for three days, because she was hiding any assets she could for fear we might get them) was this delicate, magical slide rule with a leather cover. The kind they used to figure out the Apollo missions. It had a manual dated 1954. In the spirit of "better not end up in the junk pile on my watch" I just passed it to my older boy. He may not have a clue about how interesting it is, but that's for him to deal with now, not me. This is it, but someone else's. Note the multiple scales on the thing, so meticulous and amazing.
Yeah, I used to have a slide rule for school into the early 70's before calculators. Never really was good at using it properly. It was pretty handy for writing equations I couldn't remember in pencil on the one side for test taking though.
Now Calculus is taught using Excel in the classroom and allowed for test taking. It has come down to you only need to know what the proper variables are to plug into Excel. Being able to actually work the equations is no longer required. And that was back in 2006 when I last took a course. My how times have changed.
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Oct 3, 2025 - 6:23am
kurtster wrote:
I must add that with J's suggestion I finally got a copy of Swedish Death Cleaning for Americans a week ago. I know that both of you have mentioned it over the years and I finally got to it. My Mom's Mom was Swedish so that has been a large part of my life anyway. So the book just naturally works for me. It even has a part about cleaning up your digital life. And I am at that point of my life anyway. The ripping is already part of that process by intent. The sound is all that I need It is freeing me up from the physical part of the music. Cleaning up my mess so no one else has to do it. I just went through cleaning up my Mom's leftovers for lack of any other way to put it and it was pure hell dealing with all the unfinished and open things.
The only thing I wanted/got from my dad's "estate" when he died (his wife didn't tell us for three days, because she was hiding any assets she could for fear we might get them) was this delicate, magical slide rule with a leather cover. The kind they used to figure out the Apollo missions. It had a manual dated 1954.
In the spirit of "better not end up in the junk pile on my watch" I just passed it to my older boy. He may not have a clue about how interesting it is, but that's for him to deal with now, not me.
This is it, but someone else's. Note the multiple scales on the thing, so meticulous and amazing.
Lastly, for now anyway and ironically, you have to budget time to actually listen to the end product. Otherwise what is the purpose of doing all of this in the first place ?
I use Plex to hold my FLAC files, and then folks with PlexAmp can use my link to get into my stash and listen. Perhaps something like that so others can enjoy your work properly? https://www.plex.tv/plexamp/
I haven't done one bit of streaming of anything really other than RP. My music computer like I said, is XP based and I don't go to the Internet on it. It is hardwired to my receiver via a 25 foot toslink optical cable. No RF interference. Not even the slightest chance of it. I use foobar for playlists and whatnot and it does have RP links to it which is how I listen to RP on the big rig using the Ethernet gateway through the main computer. The studio shares the same wall with the living room and I put a hole through it to feed cables from room to room including Ethernet cables so even that is hardwired.
I have an NAS that has sat for a couple of years unused. I tried to use it but it doesn't recognize XP properly. My main computer that I use for everything else will work with it. My main computer sees the XP computer and I can transfer files to it, but I can't get the XP to download from the main. It keeps asking for the Main's computer name and password and I long ago forgot where to find that and gave up trying so everything I download on the main has to get put onto a USB thumb drive and transferred that way. That includes all the hi rez files I've bought over time.
I'm getting ready to try the NAS again soon. I got three 16 TB HDD's sitting and waiting. It's a 2 bay Raid 1 configuration. But all that doesn't matter until I get to the point of finalizing the music files on the XP music server. Then gradually they'll make it to the main computer and NAS for permanent storage and safety copies. Then I can think of sharing music via something like Plex. Until then, its USB drives to share with friends and they can put them into their systems which ever way works for them. Everything is wav, too. I can't use FLAC in the cars and don't have a file converter that does that well anyway. No meta data with the files. Just the file title which has enough info in it to nail down what it is and the file source. or provenance if you will. All the files start out in 24 bit 96 khz files and get resampled and what not from them which is also a one at a time process. No bulk process for that that I trust.
Sigh. And so it goes.
I must add that with J's suggestion I finally got a copy of Swedish Death Cleaning for Americans a week ago. I know that both of you have mentioned it over the years and I finally got to it. My Mom's Mom was Swedish so that has been a large part of my life anyway. So the book just naturally works for me. It even has a part about cleaning up your digital life. And I am at that point of my life anyway. The ripping is already part of that process by intent. The sound is all that I need It is freeing me up from the physical part of the music. Cleaning up my mess so no one else has to do it. I just went through cleaning up my Mom's leftovers for lack of any other way to put it and it was pure hell dealing with all the unfinished and open things.
