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Ah. Silly me.

If Tidal are supposed to have switched off MQA on the 24th June, why am I still seeing MQA tracks?

Great post. My favourite Gil Scott- Heron track is the one that I first heard, which introduced me to his music.

Must remember to turn the MQA Beta setting to 'off' on the Wiim Pro in a couple of days time.

Yes, it is.

I went to Tidal when they committed to do away with the MQA nonsense. I received an email yesterday to say it's actually happening. "On July 24, 2024, we’re replacing the music in TIDAL’s MQA catalog with FLAC versions....."

That may well be the final outcome. I do have one very old Asus netbook running Zorin OS Core and it's OK.

I used this method to force Win 11 to install on my 13 year old laptop. This method was supposed to also bypass the requirements for an online Microsoft account but that bit didn't work for me. As the machine had a clean install of Win 10 on it I chose the install option of 'keep nothing'...

Personally, I find big tech trying to collect as much personal data from me as they possibly can quite insidious and I do my best to fragment my data across platforms and sites to try to hinder data aggregation. I know it's all a bit of a lost cause but I feel that I have to try. I don't have...

Maybe I should bite the bullet and buy a Mac, just to try. People who have them say they are very good and it's not as if I can't afford one. I agree that twice the price is a bit of an exaggeration, but when I last looked into it it was, realistically, about 50% more for a an equivalent Mac...

The point I am trying to make is that in a proper, professional, well design OS it should not be necessary. I did indeed have to spend some hours searching the internet to find various hacks and workarounds from installing it on what Microsoft has arbitrarily decided is unsupported hardware, to...

The fact that you have to do an internet search to find a workaround for the dummy Microsoft account problem, to me, says it all. It should not be necessary. An option should come up to choose to setup with a local account only during the installation process. Putting silly cartoon images...

Well, I've eventually forced an 'upgrade' to Windows11 Home onto an an old, unsupported Windows 10 laptop that was doing nothing on the shelf. It actually runs fine but other than that, my first impressions of it are not good. The UI, out of the box, seems to be designed to appeal to the five...

My wife's pretty expensive, three year old HP Envy 13, running Win 10 Home just recently turned itself to scrap with an onboard memory fault. I had a rummage in the home office and found my old Asus Vivobook S200E with a dual core Celeron 1.1GHz processor and 2GB RAM. I bought it as an 'open...

I am listening to music on an SMSL C100 right now. It measures well and sounds great. My understanding is that it is basically an SMSL SU-1 with a remote control and basic Bluetooth capability added. For around €100 it's an absolute bargain, in my view. Edit:- It seems that the SMSL C100 may...

ASR has saved me an absolute fortune by giving me the information that allows me to avoid buying good looking junk.

Know exactly what you mean with Bob Dylan. If you haven't heard it already the 'Oh, Mercy' album is worth a listen.

Not a band, and not really from that long ago, but I didn't really get Amy Winehouse. Now I think her music is great.

How loud do I like my music? Slightly louder than my tinnitus.

From everything I've read, there isn't really a cure for tinnitus but there are various coping mechanisms and practices that work for some people. For me, listening to music helps when the tinnitus becomes too intrusive.