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I am aware of being white, male, educated, middle-class, English and thus entitled.

I can’t change what I am, but I am conscious (and slightly uncomfortable) of them all.

It’s probably an English thing.

If you’re going to title a post with someone’s name, can you add (still alive) so that I don’t panic?

A good point. I’m thinking more White Van Man than Festival Campsite Man.

Being married to a mongrel makes me slightly uncomfortable with being at least 75% English. I’m certainly duller as a result.

I’ve reached this conclusion over the years.

Waving a flag and supporting your […]

Thomas Dolby’s book is excellent and describes how he’d almost given up on music until he heard Paddy’s demo tape.

Will the X5 run apps (e.g. VLC?)

Artwork should be embedded in the m4a files. If not, there’s likely to be a folder.jpg or cover.jpg in the folder.

The Fiio indexing mechanism works best if you have a folder structure. I do top-level folder […]

I don’t Mac, so I can only comment on Windows. The Fiio appears either as a Mass Storage Device (like a USB memory stick) or MTP. You go to your iTunes folders in File Explorer and copy them across to the Fiio. […]

Thanks, that’s good to know – I haven’t had any experience / reviews of the new M series.

I bought a very early M series years ago and it was fairly rubbish, shortly replaced by a X1.

Symphonik came out this March. I loved the lead track but all those strings got to me over the course of an LP.

I thought it was going to end “and that’s what I told them when I got to A&E”.

Anyone got £303.47 going spare?

They were on (and very good) in 2017.

Well, that makes two of us!

720 x 576i is SD, though – 625/50i “PAL” (SMPTE 259M-C, which supports 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratios). 576 visible lines is the important bit.

The 720 that Foxy refers to is, […]

If it was the BBC OB unit doing it, and I imagine it was, it would be on DigiBeta tape.

I am so dull, I sometimes bore myself.

Where’s Moose when you need him?

720 is the magic number in the above.

It will have been upscaled from 576 (“PAL” SD), or I’m not dull.

He’s in the wrong business – comedy is the new rock ‘n’ roll.