They are indeed. The current model is built on a Raspberry Pi 2B (a fairly old model) with a DAC connected to the I2S bus, and the drives connected via USB 2.0 (the Pi 2B doesn’t have USB 3.0). I presume the […]

I thought we were supposed to be eliminating ‘single use plastics’?

The Dave Clark Five had hits with two different songs entitled Everybody Knows.

Ours is dreadful. It also doesn’t contain a Post Office – that relocated elsewhere a year or two ago.

I’ve popped in a few times this year, looking for either a book or a magazine, and have never managed to […]

You can get around it by editing the sort tags. For example artist name “Bill Evans”, sort as “Evans, Bill”. This way the artist names are displayed normally, but are still sorted correctly. You will need to do […]

Clarence “Frogman” Henry is still with us.

What, no league ladders? It is August, after all!

It’s Uncut, therefore it’s something country-ish? Perhaps it’s a feature on the upcoming Plant & Kraus album?

Or they’re merging with Buster.

Bolton Percy never fails to raise a chuckle when it pops up on local radio.

I’ve seen the odd midge whilst walking along the banks of the River Ure.

Our local branch stopped stocking CDs and DVDs last December. The rumour was that they were going to transfer to the branch of Argos due to open in the store’s former café, but that never materialised when that […]

I once saw a gig poster for a band named Stickleback. I couldn’t work out if they were a tribute band or not – alas they were playing too far from home for me to pop in on the night to find out.

Having heard Growers Of Mushrooms I’m baffled as to how it became so highly valued – it’s just a blues-rock band trying to sound like Led Zeppelin. It was completely forgotten about for over 20 years from its […]

No, that won’t work. There’s fundamental differences in how the data is stored in the two file formats, and other implementation differences such as block size.

The two systems both use something known as “Rice coding” to compress the data, a compression system dating back several decades. Hence the similarities, although there’s differences in the implementation.

As I understand it, Apple developed their own lossless format due to Open Source licensing issues with FLAC – the then license that FLAC was published under made it impossible for Apple to adapt the code to run on […]

The intros are there as the recordings were sourced from a weekly radio shows the BBC compiled for overseas affiliate stations, which went under the name Top Of The Pops. This series compiled the best of that […]

Similarly in North Yorkshire:

Bishop Monkton
Burton Leonard
Norton Conyers
Carlton Miniott

There’s also High Ellington and Low Ellington – a pair of concept albums the Duke issued simultaneously in 1965.

A jazz piano trio version of Smells Like Teen Spirit.