Category: Music

Tidal For Streaming

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I know that Spotify is considered to have the best algorithm for suggesting new music. However, the sound quality isn’t there. Therefore, I use Tidal for lossless hi-res playback (of at least some of the library). Today, I’ve found that Tidal does a pretty good job suggesting other tracks I would like to listen to after playing an album. Some time back, it was just suggesting rap, and other stuff I didn’t care to listen to.

I don’t use the suggestions options very often. I have several people and places that I look for album and playlist suggestions. I’m not into the current pop chart stuff for the most part, but I do have pretty broad tastes in music, from Jazz, Blues, Rock, Electronic and Classical.

Play It Again?

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I have just set up a brand new pair of HomePods, 2nd Generation. I made sure I got all the updates and everything done, and this evening I am sitting on the sofa listening to some music.

It went through my mind how my late grandfather was taken aback by CDs when they first appeared in the second half of the 1980s. I got my first CD player in 1987, and my grandparents had come to visit. I wonder what he would make of this technology now when I don’t have to move off the sofa all evening; where I don’t even have to lift a finger, but just tell Siri what I want to hear next.

OK, it’s not perfect. Apple Music might state that they have 100 million tracks on offer these days, but there are still a few old favourites that the streaming services have passed by. Nevertheless, it’s a fun evening, and, for me, mostly preferable to the TV!

The Day The Music Died

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Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash after performing in Clear Lake Iowa.

Holly was only 22.

They were on their way to perform in Minnesota when the plane came down in bad weather killing all three and the pilot.