Music in the Workshop

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

Changing the subject slightly am I the only one to find Amazon Echo extremely annoying?
It is great in the living room where there is a reasonable hi-fi system as well, but you have to ask Alexa for an individual track – saying something like play the Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan may or may not get you an overture or a single track. Some items are under Sullivan, some not. If you ask for Pink Floyd Wish you were Here Album may or may not get you the whole album, but all switch off after about an hour anyway and if you want a particular recording you often have no chance!

For something to sit and cherry pick tracks from it is superb, but to listen to whole albums, or just play background music you often have to make up a playlist – which is sometimes just too long!

 

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 03/08/2020 12:36:02

[Martin Shaw 1Participant @martinshaw1]

Well I suppose I should declare an interest, or perhaps I should say an involvement. Back in the mid 90s I worked for a small company that won the contract for the technical installation of the studios for ClassicFM then situated in the basement of the Gilbeys Gin building in Camden Town, so I suppose you can praise or bame me according to taste. Just to compund Peter S's joy or disappointment I also built CFM in Carlisle.

Music is of course a personal taste but I don't understand anyone who claims to dislike a musical genre, I will listen to all and everything, some things I inevitably prefer, anything from Gregorian chant to Rap, there's good in all but because so little is recorded prior to 1900 all the rubbish is long forgotten whereas all modern stuff is readily available and insuffient time has passed for the chaff to be discarded. We might well remember the Stones hits from the 60s for example but thankfully the crap from that era has been forgotten.

The one thing I have found from over 60 years of listening is that commercial broadcasting is firstly aimed at the advertiser, secondly, at the particular stations profits, and lastly, if at all, at the listener. It is universally dire everywhere in the world, and I have some experience to draw on here. You might think the license fee is a poorly hidden tax which you begrudge the BBC but it's still light years ahead of anyone else, and we lose it at our peril.

Regards

Martin

Edited By Martin Shaw 1 on 03/08/2020 12:51:32

Edited By Martin Shaw 1 on 03/08/2020 12:51:55

[Dave Smith 14Participant @davesmith14]

Planet rock for me, for a commercial station /i reckon as good as the Beeb.

Dave

[SpurryParticipant @spurry]

Looks like I am alone in my preference for Smooth….

Pete

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Posted by Spurry on 03/08/2020 15:16:13:

Looks like I am alone in my preference for Smooth….

Pete

+1

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Those new-er digital radios can be very good, quite a clever system

Music etc doesn't sound as good to me now because I'm old and so I don't bother very much

Apparently your hearing at the higher pitches completely disappears with age, I thought it was the digital recording but no, it's me

Even old ABBA songs just aint quite what they used to be

The mosquito is based on this phenomenon

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