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Sofa so good with this thread...

You don't need to do the flash stuff to be brilliant. A few weeks ago I went to a Hi-Fi show where one of the rooms was playing this and it sounded great; I looked around and Mike Lindup had wandered into the room and sat down behind me!

How to play it simple.

Fragile and Close To The Edge by Yes feature the best bass playing ever recorded.

Fly By Night, by Rush

Electric Blight Orchestra

I agree about his tone; whilst he's acknowledged as having done great things for the bass as an instrument, the sounds coming out of the instruments don't do much for me.

The key word is "quality" digital there. There's a band I quite like (https://whenriversmeet.co.uk/) and I have one of their CDs which is really good on the Hi-Fi, but their downloads are only mp3.

King

Plush

Two blokes having a chat. Gordon Giltrap's Fear Of The Dark is a great album.

Certainly an mp3 should not be the only release format.

Short stuff.

The problem is doing a sound check to an empty hall and then finding out it was different with people in.

Well, you've just said that people have downloaded and then bought. Also, I've been to see bands based on having listened. I'm not inclined to share receipts, but you can take my word for it as evidence (or not, as you choose).

It's up to the trademark/copyright owner to instigate any legal proceedings. As for the Muppet owner, the term has become common usage and the image style is pervasive. From an alternative perspective it might be the case that these images actually generate interest in The Muppets. I remember one of my most active musical times was when I used to download from Pirate Bay - I'd try stuff and buy albums or go to gigs. Technically it was verbotten, but factually it generated income for the industry.

Questionable, since most people doing sound checks can only count to two.

Blah, blah, blah.

eBay aren't interested in dealing with counterfeits, so paying extra for some buyer protection scheme is a nonsense. The idea of automated positive feedback is quite bizarre. As a buyer, I don't trust them.

An alternative is a J-Retro.

Being USA and Tech 21 means I'm unlikely to buy one.

Whaddya think of this thread?

I have to say I was impressed with an AI item for the first time last week. I was documenting an IT infrastructure architecture using a tool called Notion. I'd written the text and wanted to add a diagram but couldn't find how to start the diagramming widgetry. I was looking around for help and it said to press spacebar for ai. So I pressed spacebar and typed "draw architecture diagram", expecting some generic boxes and lines to appear. But no, it drew my diagram, including three scenarios I'd written into the text. It had depicted the layers top-down, whereas I wanted them bottom-up, but otherwise it was spot-on. (I think my very structured descriptions had enabled it to infer the componentry.) OTOH, I have a colleague who is using ChatGPT to help him write Bash scripts; mostly they're OK, if a bit quirky sometimes. Well, there was one which wasn't working and it took us a while to figure out what it was doing, but it was still erroring. After a bit of reading of man pages, comparing Mac vs. Linux I spotted the issue: it was supplying an empty string "" in the place of an optional arg. Deleting that fixed it. So, it got a prototype in place, but (a) complicated the issue and (b) had a syntax error. Summary: AI can be good and impressive, but you always have to keep your eye on it and not blindly accept its outputs as verbatim.