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I agree. Changing topic re Pink Floyd, the live recording of Pink Floyd, Los Angeles Sports Area, April 26, 1975, is about to be released - the recording includes early versions of songs that later appeared on Animals. More details here: https://www.pinkfloyd.com/pink-floyd-live-from-the-los-angeles-sports-arena-april-26th-1975/

Live 2007

I recently spun the surround mix from the BlueRay of "Animals" and I was even less impressed by it than when i first played it years ago. So much more could have been done with this album using the full surround soundstage. This was a stereo LP that used phase to move stuff around in the stereo mix and yet when they made a surround version, they left each part stationary in discreet channels. I mentioned listening to this when I was stoned as a young man and the thing that used to be cool was the dogs barking all around you. They barked in front of you. They barked behind you. If you had headphones on, they barked inside your head. It was cool. The surround mix sticks them in one speaker and leaves them there. What a shit job they did when mixing this. I'd also add that as I have aged, the lyrics to these tunes really hit home. I've met so many pigs, dogs & sheep in my life and I realize that a large part of my life was necessarily "piggy", as was most anyone trying to make a living. Hopefully the stone doesn't weigh me down too much. I am not a big fan of Syd Barret era Pink Floyd at all. I rarely played them when I was younger & haven't found any reason to go back. If I'm playing Pink Floyd, it's usually "Wish You Were Here" or "The Wall", with "Comfortably Young" being my favorite Pink Floyd tune.

Albare “Beyond Belief” AIFI cd Some Les Paul slinging jazz feels just right right now. Interesting defect on this cd: in the seventh track there is a series of tones for about two seconds that sound like someone's incoming smart phone call alert, LOUD.

An optical drive should plug & play in Windows - no driver should be needed. Besides, it sounds like it is being plugged into a Mac in this case. One thing to consider... this drive draws power through the USB-A connection. If you're plugging this into the Thunderbolt/USB-C port on the Mac with an adapter or port replicator, it might not be getting power. Check the specs on the adapter.

Warm again. I could get used to this! Starting off with disc IX of “The Columbia & RCA Victor Live Recordings of Louis Armstrong & The All-Stars”

March 31 Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - 1983 Saw him in Göttingen, November 12, 2016

👍- as Savoy Jazz ‎WL70515 from 1984 on my shelf ...

I actually like Chet's Pestige's very much, if they handsomely package this in a CD bundle,with original sleeve art, I'd buy it on the button.

Actually four more (Groovin', Comin' On, Cool Burnin', Boppin'), all five condensed onto three splendid Prestige CD's (Lonely Star, Stairway to the Stars, On A Misty Night) and the whole Roulette thing is a mystery.

Give me Sid Barrett Pink Floyd, and especially give me pre-Lamb Peter Gabriel Genesis. Rush does nothing for me. THIS is the album I keep coming back to 50+ years later:

Capital owns Roulette, right? Why not the other 3 in the series (like Miles Davis' Snortin', Sweatin', Drinkin' series)? Weird.

IMO, I place Genesis's up there with Rush's Released at about the same time (1979-80). (Pink Floyd's (Roger Water's solo record) The Wall of course, deserves mention) Brilliant records, not the very best, but pretty damn good.

Initially wanted to talk about Genesis and Phil Collins, but here I am. Grew up listening to (wish you here 1975ish ) Pink Floyd, (the disco) Kiss and whatever else was on the radio. Music in the early 80's for me were The Police and late 70's Genesis when Phil Collins took over, and The Clash. Throw in Chuck Mangioni, and George Benson, rounds out my youthful listening experience.

Kirk Knuffke: Brother

My father, who was not a jazz fan, brought Ambassador Satch home when it was first released. Hence it was one of the first jazz Lps I owned.

Chase DeLauter!!

Did you find the latest drivers for the product (company website probably) and install them? After you've done that, does the drive show up when you plug it in? For ex on a pc you should see it in File Explorer. I recently bought a Dell PC tower which did not have a built in cd player so I bought an external usb player from Dell for about $50. Works fine so far.

Of course I'm lovin' ASB for the sake of Aaron Judge alone--Yankee fans have long been anticipating its implementation, given his usually MLB-leading status for most balls-called-strikes pretty much since his full-time debut in 2017. Crazy that that first challenge of his was only 1/10 of an inch below the zone, but it changed the nature of the at-bat to his advantage, and he went on to homer in a 3-2 count. But I'm also enjoying checking out the clips of ASB in action around all of MLB, and it seems the fans at the games are generally enthusiastic about it? It does add a few more moments of replay drama and uncertainty to the game, and it's much quicker than a play challenge. And I'm not going to miss Aaron Boone and other managers screaming as much at the umps over blown calls or multiple blown calls, though it's pretty hilarious that we've already had a manager thrown out over an ASB challenge... but he was objecting on the grounds that the batter had not tapped his helmet quickly enough. *There* lay the potential for future manager/umpire dust-ups over ball-and-strike calls, if that is one's thing. I'll also be interested to see, as the season develops, whether the outcomes of ASB challenges end up statistically favoring pitchers or hitters, or if the outcomes are roughly equal.

9% of Amazon reviews are 1 star, with most of them saying that the drive arrived dead. I worked in the electronics industry for over 40 years and I've been told that a lot of companies (our customers) that were making cheap electronics like this external CD drive, use the consumer for "final test". It's cheaper to have you return it for a new one than it is to test it themselves. I would send it back and get a replacement or a credit. https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B07DLRG9VH/ref=acr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&reviewerType=all_reviews#reviews-filter-bar A little while back, I got a new tower PC with a shit laptop-sized optical drive, so I bought an external case, this one: https://www.amazon.com/External-Enclosure-Generation-Aluminum-NST-540S3-BK/dp/B09SS74KCN/a4b666 And then I bought a highly-rated internal drive. I researched it quite a bit and eventually bought this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09G9FRFT7? And yes, I know that Plextor is no longer a company, just a licensed name, but this drive had decent reviews at the time.

Has anyone used this for ripping, burning, and even listening to CDs? I just received this today, and I can't get it to function at all. My previous CD drive (LG) worked fine on my old HP computer and my current Apple Mac. This one...just a problem. I tried a host of troubleshooting trips and no luck. There were a lot of good reviews on this, so I am surprised. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.