What are you streaming tonight?

“Youth Without Youth“ - Metric.  

COVID-19 Blues.

I spend many hours each week mostly streaming from my music server.

I run both Logitech Media Server to stream to Squeezebox Touches (2) and a Squeezebox Radio.

I also stream from Plex Media Server to various in house devices like tablets, Amazon Fire TV box, and Iphone. I synch files to the Iphone in Plex and then stream from the Iphone to ApplePlay in my car.

I also stream on occasion from Radio Paradise and other internet stations on various devices including Squeezebox Touches and Squeeze Radio, and browser on tablets, iphone, and other devices.

Occasionally I will stream Amazon music and Pandora from Iphone to Carplay.

I still have a large vinyl collection also. I convert those to digital now when I listen and stream the files from same music server from there on in at home, in car, in the office, out of town, wherever.

So I am pretty much streaming all the time these days.  Good music available everywhere, sounds great and love it!

Thanks uber. I’ve been at it for a number of years now and been through the various ups and downs.

The biggest down is not having a backup of your files when the day comes (and it will eventually) where your disk storage fails. Maintaining and using backups is a bit of a pain! Not an issue if you are streaming content provided by others over the internet. I’ve had to restore my somewhat large music library twice from backups due to disks going bad after a few years or so.   It takes me over a day to restore my entire library currently if needed.

I wish converting vinyl properly were faster and easier but I’ve come up with a cost effective solution that works very well yet still time consuming.

Cleansing Music 50s Bop.  

Great station for pre-Beatles popular music.        LOts of well known and deeper cuts all wonderful sounding.   They don't make music like that anymore.  

Last Boezem by Kayak now Where the River Flows by Collective Soul.

Started off with Bach Prelude and Fugue in A Minor played by Anthony Newman on a wonderful sounding VoxBox CD.

Misfits perhaps my favorite Kinks album.   Good stuff!

"A Nightmare to Remember" by Dream Theater at work from my Plex music server at home.

I love it when my hifi allows me to hear "foibles" in recordings. I love them all, except perhaps the occasional ones that make your ears bleed no matter what.

Much better than hearing the "foibles" in your hifi 24X7.

Being able to hear most everything in a recording is a big part of teh joy my hifi brings me. Good or bad. It’s very interesting to me to be able to hear all that went into a particular produced product. Or even just to hear what that production sounds like in my room. So many ways to extract pleasure out of recordings no matter what.

I think everyone who grew up in the 60s and 70s has fond memories of a lot of the music from back then including many that did not strike a fancy as much back then as a kid.

Plus our hifis are so much better now and all that old stuff sounds so much better now on it.  New revelations from olden days all the time.

Windsurfer by Roy Orbison. 

I have "Booker's Guitar" by Eric Bibb.   Really good recording!

"A Change of Seasons" by Dream Theatre.

Dream Theater really have at a handful of classic rock gems live on the "A Change Of Seasons" CD.   They do justice to Elton John, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and others.  Really good stuff!

Yes it is.

I discovered it reading Dream Theater did a live cover of Elton John’s Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding on it. Gave it a listen on Spotify and picked it up off ebay next day for <$5.

The Ian Gillan-like vocal howls combined with the lead guitar on Deep Purple’s Perfect Strangers is just way off the charts but the way they manage to deliver classic cuts from Elton John, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, Journey and Genesis live bang bang bang no problem is a real treat as a whole.  Gotta go see these guys play someday.

"American Pride" disc 3 Readers Digest Compilation, Marine's Theme by the Hill Bowen Orchestra.   Reader's Digest compilations Rock.

"Seven Stones" - Genesis off my in-house music server.

“The Conductor (thin white duke remix)” by The Faint