MJ posted this today [open.spotify.com]

Eclectic. Nice

Just got a black page when I clicked on it.

...ere ya go 24






ROCKMAN

That John Lee-track is, like Keith puts it: "Armour"!

Can someone explain for a man still living in the 70's: If you have a paid subscription on Spotify - can you download
and save an infinite amount of songs on your device or external memory stick then? (I have only a free subscription)

great playlist, more eclectic than those of many much younger

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Stoneage
Can someone explain for a man still living in the 70's: If you have a paid subscription on Spotify - can you download
and save an infinite amount of songs on your device or external memory stick then? (I have only a free subscription)

yes device. external no i think

OOOwwwww yeah Dandeeee all those
Hooker - Modern recordings are "Armour ..."

and checkout the latest release on ACE of Hooker
recordings from the stuff he cut on Bernard Besman’s Sensation label ....
Something like twenty unreleased tracks ....

Should have hopefully this week ....

AND Most likely the third essential release of 2020 .....

----->>>> [acerecords.co.uk]



ROCKMAN

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Stoneage
Can someone explain for a man still living in the 70's: If you have a paid subscription on Spotify - can you download
and save an infinite amount of songs on your device or external memory stick then? (I have only a free subscription)

That’s what I would like to know, too. If this isn’t possible, then I’m really not interested. I still use an iPod Classic in my Beats By Dre dock. It’s antiquated, but the music is my own. I’m not sure I’ll ever be ready for online-only rental music. It seems to disposable.

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Stoneage
Can someone explain for a man still living in the 70's: If you have a paid subscription on Spotify - can you download
and save an infinite amount of songs on your device or external memory stick then? (I have only a free subscription)

That’s what I would like to know, too. If this isn’t possible, then I’m really not interested. I still use an iPod Classic in my Beats By Dre dock. It’s antiquated, but the music is my own. I’m not sure I’ll ever be ready for online-only rental music. It seems to disposable.

It's possible, but Spotify only wants you to download to your own computer, iPad or phone.

If you have a recording device, you can add that music to your iPod, of course. But it's not "legal". Using your phone, iPad or PC with your stereo works nicely, though, so I don't have that need - with my subscription.

I'm another Neanderthal man (remember that song)?!

Still having my nice I Pod classic as well with 1000s of songs and all my old/ own stuff on it.

Some day I'll really have to dig into all that Spotify life .
But at the moment I'm still happy with all my many play lists.

I love "Bustin' Loose"

lol for a dude who takes tons of sh*t for being trendy he only got 5 of 13 of these recorded in this CENTURY

I like his better than Bono's recent attempt to be ''relevant."

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LazarusSmith
lol for a dude who takes tons of sh*t for being trendy he only got 5 of 13 of these recorded in this CENTURY

I agree. The comment about this being 'eclectic' is laughable.

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Rockman
...ere ya go 24

Thank you.

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Elmo Lewis
I love "Bustin' Loose"

Back in the day when I would occasionally DJ, this one was always sure fire.

A very woke playlist

There is a Spotify version download program I have, it does this

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NilsHolgersson
A very woke playlist

Aha, almost all black artists (except Mozart). A statement maybe? Or not...

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Stoneage

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NilsHolgersson
A very woke playlist

Aha, almost all black artists (except Mozart). A statement maybe? Or not...

More like general influences and music Mick listens to (the other stones as well)
In a way that has always been a statement

His 2017 current listening Spotify playlist is pretty similar in that respect btw

I played Mozart's Sonata ...prefer Beethoven

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quietbeatle
I like his better than Bono's recent attempt to be ''relevant."

That makes zero sense.

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LazarusSmith
lol for a dude who takes tons of sh*t for being trendy he only got 5 of 13 of these recorded in this CENTURY

You're confusing "being trendy" with "being good".

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Stoneage
Can someone explain for a man still living in the 70's: If you have a paid subscription on Spotify - can you download
and save an infinite amount of songs on your device or external memory stick then? (I have only a free subscription)

yes device. external no i think

It's a good deal, you can listen to anything you want at a low price, without ads. When I signed up, it also came with a subscription to HULU at no added cost. I don't know if that's available now. I am not being paid by Spotify to write this.

The only downside is that if they loose the licensing to something, then I guess you can't listen to it anymore. That hasn't happened to me yet.



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Mick's list: very interesting. He really is getting antsy I guess, with
the release of such stuff as this list, and the video showing him
doing chores.
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For those above with questions about putting Spotify files onto an "ipod", etc:

Some years ago I spent a couple of months putting 507 albums onto a micro-SD
card for my mp3 player.

NOTE FOR LEGAL SCHMEGALS, on this site: I once had a vinyl record collection
of these 507 albums, all of them purchased !, but could not bring them when
I moved away from my home country.

Now back to the topic: I would advise checking out the program (app)
called "Replay Music". It is not free, you have to buy it, and it's US$20
or something like that. With that you can "record". I subscribed to Spotify
and a couple of others for the 2 months that I was doing this. Note that
"Replay Music" is a Windows program, and I am not sure of what other
operating systems it works on.

It has been some years now since I did this, so it is all unclear what I
did now. But figure you have to subscribe to Spotify (or other), and you
have to pay for the "Replay Music" program. At least that is what I did.

At any rate my 400 pound (180 kilogram) vinyl record collection is now on a
1 gram micro-SD card, and I am happily listening on my mp3 player and
will never look back to vinyl again.

And for those that say that mp3 does not compare to vinyl, please
research human age relevant to hearing ability. For people in old age, it
is impossible for them to even hear the difference between a 192 mbps mp3
and a flac file etc. It is a proven medical fact. Even though they "think"
they can hear a difference.

Before doing my recordings, as described above, I took a test to see what
level of mbps I had to go up to. The results were that I could not tell
the difference between 192 kbps and anything higher than that, so I did
my recordings at 192 mbps and saved a lot of space.



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Thanks Mick...for turning me on to Nina Simone. I watched the youtube video of Mississippi Goddam....riveting.

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Chacho
Mick's list: very interesting. He really is getting antsy I guess, with the release of such stuff as this list, and the video showing him doing chores.

For those above with questions about putting on "ipod", etc:

Some years ago I spent a couple of months putting 507 albums onto micro-SD for
my mp3 player.

NOTE FOR LEGAL SCHMEGALS, on this site: I once had a vinyl record collection of these 507 albums, all of them purchased !, but could not bring them when I moved away from my home country.

Now back to the topic: I would advise checking out the program (app) called "Replay Music". It is not free, you have to buy it, and it's US$20 or something like that. With that you can "record". I subscribed to Spotify and a couple of others for the 2 months that I was doing this. Note that "Replay Music" is
a Windows program, and I am not sure of what other operating systems it works on.

It has been some years now since I did this, so it is all unclear what I did now. But figure you have to subscribe to Spotify (or other), and you have to pay for the "Replay Music" program. At least that is what I did.

At any rate my 400 pound (180 kilogram) vinyl record collection is now on a 1 gram micro-SD card, and I am happily listening on my mp3 player and will never look back to vinyl again.

And for those that say that mp3 does not compare to vinyl, please research human age relevant to hearing ability. For people in old age, it is impossible for them to even hear the difference between a 192 mbps mp3 and a flac file etc. It is a proven medical fact. Even though they "think" they can hear a difference.

Before doing my recordings, as described above, I took a test to see what level of mbps I had to go up to. The results were that I could not tell the difference between 192 kbps and anything higher than that, so I did my recordings at 192 mbps and saved a lot of space.

Lots of good info in this post, thanks @Chaco. I'm new to IORR & the Flac world, so a lot of this hits home. I did find these recently, thought they were interesting:

1. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder ...


Features

Record live audio
Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine
Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs
Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files
AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC), WMA and other formats supported using optional libraries
Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together
Numerous effects including change the speed or pitch of a recording
And more! See the complete list of features: [audacity.sourceforge.net]



2. Trader's Little Helper I have yet to use it, gotta take the Flac/WinRar/WinAmp etc. tutorials 1st.

Description

Traders of lossless compressed audio files (e.g. ape, flac, mkw, or shn files) have to handle a lot of different applications to decode, encode, create/verify checksums, fix sector boundary errors, or create torrent files. Moreover most of the tools used are command-line programs requiring a deeper knowledge of how to use various parameters. Trader's Little Helper bundles the most important features of those applications in one single easy-to-use frontend.

Features

- Encoding of wav files to ape, flac, shn and mp3 format
- Re-encoding of flac files
- Decoding of ape, flac, mkw, shn, mp2 and mp3 files to wav format
- Direct conversion of ape, flac, mkw and shn files to flac or mp3 format
- Test of audio files encoded in ape, flac, shn and mkw format
- Verification of cfp, ffp, md5, sfv and st5 checksum files
- Creation of cfp, ffp, md5, sfv and st5 checksum files
- Display of audio file properties (ape, flac, shn, mkw and wav files)
- Fixing of sector boundary errors that come with ape, flac, shn, mkw, wav and mp3 files
- Removal of extra RIFF chunks in audio files
- Rewriting of WAVE headers to canonical format
- Creation of skt files for non-seekable shn files
- Test of wav files for mp3 source
- Creation of torrent files
- Display of the information encoded in torrent files
- Hashing of torrent files against local filesets or files
- Drag & Drop functionality for all supported file types
- Integration into Windows Explorer
- Check for update function

Mick has updated his playlist on Spotify with some of his favourite songs:
[open.spotify.com]

1. Controversy - Prince (extended version)
Early track that still makes you want to dance.

2. Body Bag - Youngblud and Machine Gun Kelly
High energy - one of their best collabs.

3. Blocking up D Road - Bunji Garlin
2021 carnival I missed!

4. Soldier of Love - Sade
I love the military beat.

5. Key West - Bob Dylan
Best song he has written in a long time.

6. Ole Man Trouble - Otis Redding
Hadn’t heard this in ages, then it came on the radio - still sounds great!

7. Love Dies Young - The Foo Fighters
From their new album.

8. How Long - Fantastic Negrito
New twist on the blues.

9. I Asked for Water - Howlin' Wolf
Older style blues - but what a voice.

10. Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye (extended version)
So smooth and clever vocal harmonies.

11. Amadou and Maryam - Baara
Nice light dance piece.

12. Already - Beyonce ft. Shatta Wale and Major Laser
Good trio!

13. Asturia - Andres Segovia
Something to wake up sweetly to…







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