A pause for Christmas

 

Christmas be on its way so the pause as I'm super busy with shopping to do, people to see and a unwell dad presently taking up some time we need to take a break from blogging this busier year and a year with some interesting things going on having got the place looking more like Christmas.

Christmas in the past for many of us meant parties as children either hosted by our parents or guardians or those we were invited such of those of aunts and uncles and time spent playing with cousins either charades, board games or with various toys they had as it was always the case there was one toy we wanted but never got and maybe they did have it.

Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

The Classical SD card restoration

 Progress of sorts is being made on the other half of this great SD Card reset following getting the M21 and a X5 Mk II not just with the popular music but also with classical which was really the driver of getting the M21.

If you want Classical Downloads generally where you can you want the 24 bit ones as they sound smoother reproducing the subtle notes in often busy passages cleaner but they occupy more file space so you find 128gb micro sd cards aren't big enough one one album may take up 1.5gb on its own.

With the loss of one original card but discovering many of the original downloads from 2014 onwards much has been restored there was another card where often older versions were stored but the originals were in Mp3 form and needless to say any back ups are in that form.

* That's a classic set!

I have been able to locate at least regular cd quality downloads for a good number of them taking advantage of Prestos current seasonal offers and even remastered 24 bit versions and I suspect they may go on a replacement "oldies" alternative card in X3 M II player that's nearly new.

I'll review the hard drive holding the back ups from the past and make a list of what needs to be restored ready for the new year.

The great re-ripping starts

Apart from a few deaf to world types at one site who don't recognize Child Protection concerns when it hits between the eyes prioritizing their own idenity issues this week has been taken up with the upshot of the newer digital audio player.

This wasn't the question of making up the new card for that player but updating two cards specifically  that date to around 2009/10 and the earliest players that couldn't handle lossless cd quality files.

The cards had a mixture of some downloaded material, a few items currently not available, and a good number of cds I'd copied over some with a real attempt to add full album art including gatefolds often missing from commercial downloads.

Thus we've spent a fair bit of time recopying a batch of those I had made myself from around 2013/4 and sourcing higher quality downloads for those earliest albums I bought on download and on the odd occassion finding cheap used cds where for inexplicable reasons the only downloads are Mp3.

We have however managed to get an Advent Calendar up so christmas can be counted down.

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