This morning I could not boot 10074, there was an error message stating the computer needed repair as there was a problem with a windows start up file IIRC. So I rebooted and went into BIOS where I changed the time back to the start of this year. Reboot worked fine but then Windows allocated todays date and time. So out of interest I rebooted and (surprise surprise!!) the reboot failed again with the same error message. So I rebooted again went into BIOS and changed the date back to the start of the year rebooted and no problems started up OK. When Windows came up I changed the date and time (via control panel) back to the start of the year and I also stopped the time being updated automatically via the internet. So the date and time now will not be changed unless it is by me!!.

Have I missed something? I am sure it cannot be that easy but anyway so far everything is working fine. 

The only very very minor thing is that when I RDC connect I get a "certificate" query presumably because of a date discrepancy but just click that way no problems.

If you want to change date/time in "unattended" mode use the following command from the command line "control timedate.cpl"

Cheers

Paul

I think it will be a sunny day with no clouds and Peter will sort all problems 

Peter,

You did not respond to this - it was a genuine question any chance of a response?

http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=3322.msg35893#msg35893

Cheers

Paul

Hey Peter - does that mean that it will *work* with W10 or does it mean that it will work AND sound good with the then latest W10?

Paul

OK you just spurred me on to find out what the problem was. Check out the attached and the Beach Boys are now shown correctly.  To cut a long story short I ended up re-setting and setting share settings on the "Music" directory. There should not have been any problem with the original settings but having done that the Beach Boys thumbnails have appeared.  I will take a closer look tonight to make sure the whole directory is correctly shared and that all thumbnails are shown but anyway there it is something to with Sharing but not sure what exactly because it was apparently shared correctly before.

So there it is - definitely done now!!!

Cheers

Paul

The procedure to add the albums to where I require in the Gallery works but what does not work is that not all albums are shown in the right hand pane (you also call Gallery?)  i.e. the album art from some but not all sub-directories is missing. That is not a big deal as I now use the search command to bring up the albums I want to add as you suggested.

So problem closed even though the original problem remains - but is not an issue now I know it exists ha ha. Originally I went through the Rock directory adding stuff to the Gallery not realising that I was missing a load of albums because they were missing in the Gallery.

Using search works fine so no problems but it would be a problem if there were Beach Boys album in the root and Beach Boys was not mentioned in the file name - not a problem for me though as all mine are in beach boys subdirectory.


For sure I am not using the Gallery itself.

Thks

Paul

Peter I hope this is what you are looking for.

The way I put albums in the Gallery is this:

First in the Gallery directory I create a sub directory called say "American Music". I then click on "Rock" in the left XX pane so that all the album art of all the albums from "Rock" and all its sub directories is shown (or should be) in the right (Galleries) pane. Now lets say I want to transfer all the 4-Hero albums into the "American Music" gallery directory I highlight all the 4-Hero albums (in the right pane) then right click and go through the sections that creates short cuts as required in the "American Rock" Gallery. It works fine not only creating short cuts to the 4-Hero albums but also creating a "4-Hero" subdirectory in the Gallery directory.

Why would I want to 4-Hero in the American Music directory? - well of course I wouldn't because they are English ha ha

Hi Peter - I have to say I have not really used Galleries in the past but recently I decided to give them a try. But there appears to be a problem.

For me the best way to use Galleries is to set the cursor (say) on "Rock" (see attached) and then add what I want from the play list area into Galleries. It works well because the full path spec is used so "stuff" gets organised properly in Galleries (hope that makes sense)

So far so good.

But it does not work out that way because yesterday I went through the whole "Rock" directory (as displayed in the playlist area) creating a directory in Galleries call "American Rock". Great I thought it had worked but it had not.

Creating the Gallery items for what I wanted is not a problem it all works fine but there is a problem. I had thought that if I put the cursor on "Rock" that everything (album art) that is displayed in the playlist area would be everything that is in the "Rock" directory including everything that is in the sub directories. However it is not. Look at the attached and you will see that everything that is in the "4 Hero" sub directory is shown in the playlist area but none of the contents of the "Beach Boys" directory is shown - not one album - but all the Beatles albums are shown. And that is the way it goes all the way down the directory - everything that is in the root (I think) is shown but randomly (seemingly) the contents of some sub directories are shown and others are not. I cannot see anything in the directory structure that could be a problem it is after all really simple.

So "Galleries" would work for me if everything was shown as I would expect it to be but as it is it would be so time consuming to set up the Galleries directories that it would not be worth the effort.

Cheers

Paul

Ha Ha Joachim - I just had a re-count and unfortunately yes!! actually I was much younger when that photo was posted - a mere slip of a lad at 60!! 

Hi Juan,


Very good question!! - but you restrict it to only those that follow this forum - in my mind it applies to all "audiophiles" for the simple reason we all compulsively seek improvements in sound. Actually compulsive only starts to describe it. We are all totally nuts!! Having said that - I must point out that I am not criticising audiophiles after all I am one of the very worst .

Are we crazy??? Hell yes, absolutely. Why? because no one needs great sound quality to appreciate music. And I really would doubt the sanity of anyone who insisted otherwise.

About 3 years ago I was lucky to meet a local guy who has the most incredible knowledge of music - all types, you cannot believe the range of music he knows. I am humbled by his knowledge of music. And incredibly he lives just a few hundred metres from me. Luckily we get on well - so most Thursday's we have a music evening alternating between his place and mine.

There have been evenings when he has played music at his place when I literally have been moved to tears (OK now I have admitted it ha ha). Great evenings when the mood was right and the music was sublime (and OK the beer and wine flowed). And how was the sound quality of his system? answer - totally and absolutely irrelevant. I could not have enjoyed it more no matter where I was listening even if it was the Albert Hall (actually SQ is not good there but never mind you get my drift).

Over that time I have improved my system massively and spent loads of $$$$$. So if I had to go back 3 years knowing what I know now and if I was given the choice of EITHER having the improved SQ OR having the range of music I have been introduced to - what would I choose? Easy answer - the music - every time no question.

Recently I visited my poor old Dad who sadly has just had to move into an old folks home. At 87 his best days are past and is not able to communicate as well as he once could. But he is in a great place and amazingly someone in the home has an interest in old record players and old 78's. They are all over the place. It is a treasure trove. So last time I visited I dusted off an old wind up gramophone that had not been used for years, found a key to wind it up and played some wartime music (actually Joe Loss!!) - you should have seen the effect on my old Dad he was tapping his feet and arms a big smile on his face and then a tear when all the war time memories came flooding back (actually maybe that tear thing follows in the family). Seriously, it was a very moving moment and one that I will not forget. Really it was the only moment that something really got through to him during the visit.

And would the effect have been any different listening on my system? nah no chance and probably in the context of that moment it would have been less.

So are we audiophiles nuts? hell yes!!
Is it a great hobby? hell yes!!

But sometimes I really do regret that I spend too much time tweaking and chasing down SQ improvements when I could be exploring some new piece of music. The latter is far more important than the former IMHO.

But hey, after all that I really am one of the afflicted ones!!

And how old am I - 40?  45? Nah   50? or maybe 55? Nah - surely not 60? - Nah .............. actually I am 61 so surely I am old enough to know better? - NAH ( ) -  no chance of that.

But we sad "audiophiles" are for sure a dying breed. And I for one would not think that a bad thing if suddenly those who may have been audiophiles were actually listening to a broad range of proper quality music - but who is doing that now?

Cheers

Pau

I know what you mean but I suppose I am partial to some dissonance. Mysterious Traveller is certainly less dissonant and more mainstream - at least to these ears.

I won't introduce you to the second Viennese School just yet then  (Schoenberg, Berg, Varese and Webern et al) and definitely not Ornette Coleman (who sadly died last week) as that is main stream dissonance. But at least it does not have the sound of 80's "modern" jazz.

Cheers

Paul

Hi Joachim, Yes indeed and as it happens I put Mysterious Traveller on after and was surprised that the SQ is right up there as well. A great evenings listening haven't listened to them for some time.

Paul

I have exactly the same problem as Bert but it only happens in minimised it does not happen in fullOS. It does not seem to cause a problem (it just clicks away).

I missed this when first posted. This is a great album IMHO and is at least for me the best album that Madness produced.