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Terabyte Blues

Terabyte Blues

“A Terabyte Ain’t Enough!
Notes from the Sidelines of Digitization Hell”
There is still life in these old bones and while they were plunked down in front of a shiny new 1 terabyte PC, they regularly reached over to the keyboard to keep the digitizing of their CD collection alive while trying - at the same time [...]

The End of Life As We Know It?

The End of Life As We Know It?

The end of livingwithmusic.com as you and I know it is neigh.
As if you didn’t see that coming.
Now, I could blame it on my health which has taken I don’t know how many hits these past years and has it made exceedingly difficult to sit in front of a computer screen for longer than absolutely [...]

Ed Thigpen: Gentleman of Jazz

Ed Thigpen: Gentleman of Jazz

A Profile of Sorts
I pride myself on hardly ever having misjudged people. Naturally, I have been completely wrong at times (and when I am/was wrong, I am/was completely off), but as far as I recall, the number of blunders were rather limited. It is my profession to evaluate people and although that is often quite [...]

Trials and Tribulations (V)

Trials and Tribulations (V)

The Shopping Nightmare
I do 98% of all my music shopping online. I know that I’m helping the demise of the record store swiftly along, but I need to save cash to feed my habit(s) and I simply cannot pay some of the outrageous prices my local shops ask for releases that often cost me one [...]

John Coltrane: “Fearless Leader” and “Interplay”

John Coltrane: “Fearless Leader” and “Interplay”

It’s been quite a while since I started a series entitled Trials and Tribulations. In that series, I wrote about things that can drive us collectors up the wall …and down again. At the time I only hinted at it, but right now I’m planning on expanding on one of the issues I mostly left [...]