Digital Conversion...

Of course in an ideal world, having been in rehab for the requisite length of time, sober and permitted only enough cigarettes to keep her voice at the level of dissolute huskiness that makes it interesting, Amy Winehouse would be dragged into the recording studio and made to rerecord Valerie using The Zutons' original arrangement and backing track.

That would be the ideal.

At the moment the two versions of the song I know are superlative in one part and poor in the other. That is why this spliced version of the song needs to exist.

(Edited to add: The Mark Ronson version featuring Amy Winehouse comes close to being what I had in mind, so perhaps there's no need for a further version - endure the first 45 or so seconds before the song starts:).

I have just spent an hour or so plundering Furtle's CD collection and adding bits and pieces to my Walkman. I still have over 5gB of space on it and pretty much the entirety of my CD collection, less the classical, is already on it. That must be of the order of 700 CDs since the clear out of the extraneous stuff of little consequence. There is still a fair selection of albums that I need to listen to before I decide whether or not to copy them; I'm not sure when I'll ever find the time.

Digital Conversion...

Of course in an ideal world, having been in rehab for the requisite length of time, sober and permitted only enough cigarettes to keep her voice at the level of dissolute huskiness that makes it interesting, Amy Winehouse would be dragged into the recording studio and made to rerecord Valerie using The Zutons' original arrangement and backing track.

That would be the ideal.

At the moment the two versions of the song I know are superlative in one part and poor in the other. That is why this spliced version of the song needs to exist.

(Edited to add: The Mark Ronson version featuring Amy Winehouse comes close to being what I had in mind, so perhaps there's no need for a further version - endure the first 45 or so seconds before the song starts:).

I have just spent an hour or so plundering Furtle's CD collection and adding bits and pieces to my Walkman. I still have over 5gB of space on it and pretty much the entirety of my CD collection, less the classical, is already on it. That must be of the order of 700 CDs since the clear out of the extraneous stuff of little consequence. There is still a fair selection of albums that I need to listen to before I decide whether or not to copy them; I'm not sure when I'll ever find the time.

Digital Downloads

I have recorded and transferred a fair amount of music over the past day or so and thought that I'd treat myself to a download of Mark Ronson's version of Valerie since I'd been nattering about it. Anyway, the bit that involved me parting with cash worked perfectly. The bit that involved me getting the track less so.

To begin with, the application suggested that I could pick it up the next time I logged in, except that after three attempts this was clearly not going to work. A bit of routing around showed that the software I was using was version 2.3 and there was a version 4.01 available. Thinking an upgrade would help, I downloaded and installed it. Right. The download I'd paid for disappeared entirely.

I am now waiting and hoping that a friendly email enquiry will work. I don't know why it's suddenly got so difficult to buy music online. I never used to have this trouble.

Digital Downloads

I have recorded and transferred a fair amount of music over the past day or so and thought that I'd treat myself to a download of Mark Ronson's version of Valerie since I'd been nattering about it. Anyway, the bit that involved me parting with cash worked perfectly. The bit that involved me getting the track less so.

To begin with, the application suggested that I could pick it up the next time I logged in, except that after three attempts this was clearly not going to work. A bit of routing around showed that the software I was using was version 2.3 and there was a version 4.01 available. Thinking an upgrade would help, I downloaded and installed it. Right. The download I'd paid for disappeared entirely.

I am now waiting and hoping that a friendly email enquiry will work. I don't know why it's suddenly got so difficult to buy music online. I never used to have this trouble.

Videos

Is there anyone out there addicted to the delights of analogue video?

In particular I have seven seasons of the X-Files in natty collectors' boxes (some not even opened) and all but Sharpe's Waterloo in the original Sharpe TV series. Still available for anyone who might be interested, three seasons of original Star Trek and seven seasons of Star Trek: TNG. All free to a good home.

Videos

Is there anyone out there addicted to the delights of analogue video?

In particular I have seven seasons of the X-Files in natty collectors' boxes (some not even opened) and all but Sharpe's Waterloo in the original Sharpe TV series. Still available for anyone who might be interested, three seasons of original Star Trek and seven seasons of Star Trek: TNG. All free to a good home.