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One advantage of a streaming service is being able to listen anywhere you can get a decent internet connection. Recently I have experienced weakness in my pelvic muscles that makes it very difficult to stand up or climb stairs. I have been admitted to Johns Hopkins and they are still running tests on me. However I am currently listening to the music from the April Gramophone magizine reviews that looked interesting. Each month I create a playlist on Qobuz that is usually about 35 to 40 hours long.

I'm just using iems on my cellphone but it's wonderful to have music available all the time. I also have some music downloaded.

On the health side, they stopped me taking my statin pill and I am starting to improve. They have done various tests and there are more to come.

Ray

Hope you get better soon and can get back home.

Hope everything turns out fine Ray!

It looks like I will go home on Tuesday. I already have been doing aqua therapy.

Ray

No place like home...

I'll look into it.

Does upgrading my sound card do anything really important, if I'm just duplicating discs to CD-R's?

If you want to know how my system works however, I don't really have a large collection. My rack in my listening room holds about 500 CD's. If a new CD doesn't earn a place in my rack (the CD's that I play very frequently), it goes to a staging area. The staging area is a place where questionable discs remain available to me for a couple years, just in case I find myself retrieving a recording often enough to consider cutting a disc in my regular rack and replacing it. Otherwise it's just the last stop on the way out.

All this complication makes me think however: How many favorites do I actually have?? AND: How important REALLY are they??

I wonder now, if I really need to preserve anything, or if I should just keep operating my system the way I always have. It's a slow but steady turnaround, even though there are a couple discs that have stuck around for 20 years or so, or been replaced after loss/damage, because I didn't want to go without them.

At the very least however, I do want to have the capability to make QUALITY copies, for whatever purposes I might have, and my current computer doesn't really appear to do that very well.

Thanks,

Chris

Off topic I know, but I have made an improvement in one day that has amazed the neurologists here at John's Hopkins and I am being sent home tomorrow. I simply stopped taking my daily statin pill. Even the Neurology Grand Poobah came over to look at me and talk to me.

Of course I am not cured and will require extensive PT but I am immensely relieved.

Ray

No, your sound card doesn't have any effect on ripping. It's strictly a process of copying bits from one thing to another.

I think statins have been over prescribed and issues involving them are becoming more and more common (or recognized by the medical community that pushed them). I am not an MD so do your own research and consult with your physician.

https://khn.org/morning-breakout/statin ... chers-say/

Congratulations!