Good Day,
I was using WMP to fetch metadata, but just learn that Windows stop the services December 15, 2025. That explain, why my Python program bug and could not work anymore with WMP.
Anyone using Music Bee, does it rip good? play random Album, the way you listen music with a turntable. Pic one album, play it entirely and than choose another one and play it entirely before choosing a third one!
to find the defective ground:
To put under the noisy washing machine, and the dryer:
Work also great under speaker, turntable or whatever electronic you have!
If it could quiet down the washing machine and the dryer to the floor, it could also work for your geat! and at 17$ for 8, su US price should be less! why not try it! there are noise cancellation addictive!
but don’t work with teenager or Young adult who stay at home 
Sometimes, it help, sometime, it get worst [with vintage stuff]
Gizmo to turn an old Ipad in a streamer, only connected direct to iPad, you are able to have HiRez, from Azon, Tidal, Music, Deezer, the others, I have not tested.
for 10$, work great, until, you stack enough money to purchase the real thing!
Best FM transmitter for your old car, like mine, non intrusive or destructive and cheap, but impressive on old That use to have a good FM! you have the choice this gizmo for less than 20$
or
paying a 1000$ to broke the dash and put a fancy looking table in the dash, that will squeak!
You choose a FM station to broadcast to it.
You have 2 choices with it:
You could blue tooth to it, you phone music
You could insert a micro-SD card to play your music [I put 40000 songs on micro SD card]
Or you could USB your music, but i didn’t tested that one yet.
Great sub helper, when you search the best position for it, just join a few cable before investing in the real cable you need!
Or the Spdif version:
Enjoy
Dewd, settle down.
My car, an Audi S5 from 2007, has got a nice B&O system with a CD changer. It sounds great and I play CDs when driving. However, my 17 year old daughter prefers her Apple Music playlists. The problem is this car doesn’t have a Bluetooth connection neither an another way to connect an iPhone. So that FM transmitter plug does the job. My daughter loves it, I do not because it sounds worse than good FM radio stations. It seams to have a quite limited bandwidth.
I could not tell the difference, in my old chevy 2000! 
, but yes Young adult happy, and wife could get there call!
Tool for cartridge loading, from Vista website:
Sorting your genre in the database of music (in windows)
I was tired to have a NAS, full of music, but barely able to listen to my Jazz music, because, there is so much sub genre:
there were genre like : neo-jazz-tequila-post-punk-pop and rock-pop-blues-folk-british-emergence.
Tired of subgenre, I decide to change the metadata of genre for a fewer one
BTW, most of the sub-genre serve a marketing, so Artist number one listening in Jazz-Chiquita post punk music!
Exemple:
so I decided my genre will be:
Decide what is convient for you un genre.
What I did in windows, after I made a backup of my Ripping.
I type in the search: genre:[no space, I start with letter A to Z, one by one]
Sort by Genre
Start with letter A, you will see all genre that start with A or content A
Select the one you want to change genre
Select your file:
ALT+Enter or propriety (left mouse)
In the field choice you have and are manageable, choose Field genre, change it for the genre you attribute, and apply and ok
My result for me: I only have 6 “genre”, in my Database.
After cleaning the genre, just upload the result in the NAS or a microSD card for the streamer! and choose genre for playing randomly a Genre!
Yes you could also, change others field value,
recommandation: start with a test base, before going all in! for your learning curve
That was my way, to clean the garbage they put in remastering infos, so remaster of 2016 for a Basie album of 1962, get back to 1962, so yes, I could listen music by era, now!
A free ripping application [windows] with reliable metadata from Gracenote:
Most field, could be change, if not, you could go by explorer field windows.
setting up in Flac or Wave, or Apple friendly
to keep the track on HiFi, not perfect, but it help!
Just beware of the Flower Power and Speaker.
This morning, I almost put an amplifier to the Dumpster.
because, there were a Flower Pot sitting on a hifi speaker, never do that, it will kill the sound!
Please don’t do that:
30pounds on top of speakers!
Edit: after reading some REL infos, they put a mass in the center of the Sub to help the reverberation, something like that, so two chandeler with pink salt does the Job on my 2 subwoofer!
i like this one
My genres used to be quite specific, but it was too much to keep track of, especially sorting physical media, so now it’s limited to Classical, Non-Classical, Film & Scores, Spoken Language, and Holiday. The only divergence is for playing from my server, in which case I also have a Jazz section.
I use this album that is a 3 sides album, the fourth side is blank, and I use it, to adjust my antiskating on my turntable!
Anne-Sophie Mutter - Danil Trifonov - Trout Quintet album
