• Re: To cull or not to cull: Haydn / The Creation / Karajan 1969

    From Todd M. McComb@21:1/5 to vangaalenusenet@gmail.com on Sun Sep 1 17:11:26 2024
    In article <ljj858FjhgkU1@mid.individual.net>,
    Roland van Gaalen <vangaalenusenet@gmail.com> wrote:
    There's a cabinet, serving as my radio table, in which I store all
    my recent acquistions.

    So a sort of purgatory....

    But I'm not sure it's theologically valid to be storing items that
    have already been in your cabinet in the same location as these!
    (Did Lucifer have a waiting period when he was cast out of heaven?
    Where did he wait? These are the important questions here.)

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  • From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to Roland van Gaalen on Tue Sep 3 16:01:04 2024
    On Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:36:32 -0700, Roland van Gaalen wrote:

    On 01/09/2024 19:11, Todd M. McComb wrote:
    In article<ljj858FjhgkU1@mid.individual.net>,
    Roland van Gaalen <vangaalenusenet@gmail.com> wrote:
    There's a cabinet, serving as my radio table, in which I store all
    my recent acquistions.

    So a sort of purgatory....

    But I'm not sure it's theologically valid to be storing items that
    have already been in your cabinet in the same location as these!
    (Did Lucifer have a waiting period when he was cast out of heaven?
    Where did he wait? These are the important questions here.)
    Another issue is matching the best recordings with the most beautiful
    jewel cases (with the fewest scratches). That's quite a task, if you
    have many hundreds of CDs and you accidentally damage the jewel case of
    one of your very best CDs.

    I keep a supply of new jewel cases in various
    configurations, bought as 25-100 sets.

    Are new jewel cases not as good as old jewel
    cases, yes. Would I rather have a new jewel
    case than a worn old case, yes.

    When I acquire new or old broken jewel cases
    with CDs, it is never a problem, unless the
    CD has been scratched up by a broken jewel case,
    like it has been stepped on.

    Alike for DVD cases and blu-ray cases.

    These see through clear 17 Liter storage boxes
    are great storage and transportable boxes:

    https://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk

    By the way, sometimes it seems there is *less* metric
    in the USA than last century. Needing a metric ruler,
    anything, I nearly left a hardware store empty handed
    before a clerk chased me out to the parking carrying
    a metric metal tape measure.

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  • From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to DeepBlue on Thu Sep 5 14:26:25 2024
    On Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:09:58 -0700, DeepBlue wrote:

    On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 23:01:04 +0000, Pluted Pup wrote:

    On Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:36:32 -0700, Roland van Gaalen wrote:

    On 01/09/2024 19:11, Todd M. McComb wrote:
    In article<ljj858FjhgkU1@mid.individual.net>,
    Roland van Gaalen <vangaalenusenet@gmail.com> wrote:
    There's a cabinet, serving as my radio table, in which I store all
    my recent acquistions.

    So a sort of purgatory....

    But I'm not sure it's theologically valid to be storing items that
    have already been in your cabinet in the same location as these!
    (Did Lucifer have a waiting period when he was cast out of heaven? Where did he wait? These are the important questions here.)
    Another issue is matching the best recordings with the most beautiful jewel cases (with the fewest scratches). That's quite a task, if you
    have many hundreds of CDs and you accidentally damage the jewel case of one of your very best CDs.

    I keep a supply of new jewel cases in various
    configurations, bought as 25-100 sets.

    Are new jewel cases not as good as old jewel
    cases, yes. Would I rather have a new jewel
    case than a worn old case, yes.

    When I acquire new or old broken jewel cases
    with CDs, it is never a problem, unless the
    CD has been scratched up by a broken jewel case,
    like it has been stepped on.

    Alike for DVD cases and blu-ray cases.

    These see through clear 17 Liter storage boxes
    are great storage and transportable boxes:

    https://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk

    By the way, sometimes it seems there is *less* metric
    in the USA than last century. Needing a metric ruler,
    anything, I nearly left a hardware store empty handed
    before a clerk chased me out to the parking carrying
    a metric metal tape measure.

    Digitize your entire music collection and store it in
    the cloud. Wean yourself from your archaic medieval
    addition to plastic.

    With CDs I can play it right away without ripping
    and tagging first. I'd rather make things easier
    than harder.

    Classical music CDs are especially in need of
    changing the tags from the default tags, almost every time.

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  • From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to Pluted Pup on Thu Sep 5 14:32:11 2024
    On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:01:04 -0700, Pluted Pup wrote:

    On Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:36:32 -0700, Roland van Gaalen wrote:

    On 01/09/2024 19:11, Todd M. McComb wrote:
    In article<ljj858FjhgkU1@mid.individual.net>,
    Roland van Gaalen <vangaalenusenet@gmail.com> wrote:
    There's a cabinet, serving as my radio table, in which I store all
    my recent acquistions.

    So a sort of purgatory....

    But I'm not sure it's theologically valid to be storing items that
    have already been in your cabinet in the same location as these!
    (Did Lucifer have a waiting period when he was cast out of heaven?
    Where did he wait? These are the important questions here.)
    Another issue is matching the best recordings with the most beautiful
    jewel cases (with the fewest scratches). That's quite a task, if you
    have many hundreds of CDs and you accidentally damage the jewel case of
    one of your very best CDs.

    I keep a supply of new jewel cases in various
    configurations, bought as 25-100 sets.

    Are new jewel cases not as good as old jewel
    cases, yes. Would I rather have a new jewel
    case than a worn old case, yes.

    When I acquire new or old broken jewel cases
    with CDs, it is never a problem, unless the
    CD has been scratched up by a broken jewel case,
    like it has been stepped on.

    Alike for DVD cases and blu-ray cases.

    These see through clear 17 Liter storage boxes
    are great storage and transportable boxes:

    https://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk

    And I find that this British company only sells the
    17 lit[er]s in America! Ideal for two rows of
    DVD cases, works well with three columns of CDs,
    with some room to spare.


    By the way, sometimes it seems there is *less* metric
    in the USA than last century. Needing a metric ruler,
    anything, I nearly left a hardware store empty handed
    before a clerk chased me out to the parking carrying
    a metric metal tape measure.

    I have to say "17L" rather than 17 liter to make
    myself understood in stores because there are
    circles saying 17L on the boxes.

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  • From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to Pluted Pup on Thu Sep 5 14:45:54 2024
    On Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:26:25 -0700, Pluted Pup wrote:

    On Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:09:58 -0700, DeepBlue wrote:

    On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 23:01:04 +0000, Pluted Pup wrote:

    On Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:36:32 -0700, Roland van Gaalen wrote:

    On 01/09/2024 19:11, Todd M. McComb wrote:
    In article<ljj858FjhgkU1@mid.individual.net>,
    Roland van Gaalen <vangaalenusenet@gmail.com> wrote:
    There's a cabinet, serving as my radio table, in which I store all my recent acquistions.

    So a sort of purgatory....

    But I'm not sure it's theologically valid to be storing items that have already been in your cabinet in the same location as these!
    (Did Lucifer have a waiting period when he was cast out of heaven? Where did he wait? These are the important questions here.)
    Another issue is matching the best recordings with the most beautiful jewel cases (with the fewest scratches). That's quite a task, if you have many hundreds of CDs and you accidentally damage the jewel case of one of your very best CDs.

    I keep a supply of new jewel cases in various
    configurations, bought as 25-100 sets.

    Are new jewel cases not as good as old jewel
    cases, yes. Would I rather have a new jewel
    case than a worn old case, yes.

    When I acquire new or old broken jewel cases
    with CDs, it is never a problem, unless the
    CD has been scratched up by a broken jewel case,
    like it has been stepped on.

    Alike for DVD cases and blu-ray cases.

    These see through clear 17 Liter storage boxes
    are great storage and transportable boxes:

    https://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk

    By the way, sometimes it seems there is *less* metric
    in the USA than last century. Needing a metric ruler,
    anything, I nearly left a hardware store empty handed
    before a clerk chased me out to the parking carrying
    a metric metal tape measure.

    Digitize your entire music collection and store it in
    the cloud. Wean yourself from your archaic medieval
    addition to plastic.

    If it offends you that there are unripped CDs around,
    as a contrarian, it makes me happy to learn that.

    I'll bet you say that lossy files are as good as the
    original CDs because it's trendy to say so.

    So to add insult to injury to the trendy, when I do rip
    CDs or vinyl I do so as lossless and consider possessing
    both CD and a lossless rip as a wondrous redundancy.

    This also makes an anti-apple/anti-amazon statement,
    those wretched little transnationals too backwards to
    offer lossless.


    With CDs I can play it right away without ripping
    and tagging first. I'd rather make things easier
    than harder.

    Classical music CDs are especially in need of
    changing the tags from the default tags, almost every time.

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  • From Todd M. McComb@21:1/5 to vangaalenusenet@gmail.com on Fri Aug 30 20:23:40 2024
    In article <ljekdnFsjcrU1@mid.individual.net>,
    Roland van Gaalen <vangaalenusenet@gmail.com> wrote:
    I'll have to put it on the waitlist for the currently full CD
    cabinet in the living room.

    Now you need a physical location/container to correspond to your
    waitlist....

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