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Looking forward to another subscription year. It’s great that the early bird price remains the same..$99 including shipping it’s a deal to me.

Conekid, yes it’s funny I’m a Custom AV design/integrator, former sound tech and musician, but when it comes to computers this Geezer doesn’t know much lol.
I’m a HW guy, which fortunately for me the kids aren’t really into, especially the labor to find ways to custom integrate the HW etc.
Unfortunately it’s why I still have to kill myself at work. If I had only been open to learning that stuff back when, I’d only have headaches instead of back aches earning my daily bread.
But nobody’s fault but my own!
Long story, a friend and former work associate, who’s also an audiophile nut, custom built a handful of high end ridiculous sounding dedicated YFS music servers. I have like #3 of less than a dozen.
YFS used to show at Audio shows, so I’d hang out at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest with the team, where I’ve heard all kinds of ridiculous hi end systems and the only computer based audio players I’ve heard that were as good or better were considerably more expensive and built by bigger, more commercial company’s. YFS even occasionally got mentioned in The Absolute Sounds reviews of said shows.

I’ve learned how to use it well enough, but only its creator fixes/messes with it since being a delicate hi end boutique instrument, it’s not Dinosaur proof!
I mean you wouldn’t take yer Porsche to a Yugo dealer for service would ya? ; )

And I’m sure it’s like most things: if I wanted to learn that stuff I could as most things aren’t that difficult once you learn.
But you can’t teach an old dog new tricks if he doesn’t want to lol.

We have EAC SW for ripping on it, which works really well, even on trouble discs.
The only official release that has ever given us fits was the Boxilla music only addition.
Had several discs that took forever to rip!

My discs all played fine when I received them.

Try a different CD player or use a CD burner to make a copy on a HD.
Some people with high-end CD players have reported that they have skips that aren’t there when played on their car CD player.
Some people have also reported that the skips went away after cleaning the laser lense.

I’ve had GD CD’s that had skips when played on my Onkyo CD player, but didn’t have any skips with my CD burner and I was able to get good copies onto a HD.

I’ve also had the reverse, some CD’s in the Golden Road Box will play on my Onkyo CD player but had skips when copied by a CD burner. And what’s worse, I tried a couple of different burners and there were always skips, but in different places. Road Trips Fall ‘77 w/ bonus disc was like that. I eventually got good files on my HD, but I had to do each CD on 3 different burners, sometimes more than once, and then piece together the songs that didn’t have skips.

Hello all, I bought 2 Get Shown the Light box sets way back when they were originally released ... I hate the packaging, hate the way the discs slide in and out of those way too big cases ... for a long time I've kept the second box unopened, thinking it might be valuable someday (then they released the all music edition) ... so I've struggled with the 5 5 77 show for years, the second disc simply will not play ... so I opened the second box today, went right to 5 5 77 disc 2, and lo and behold, same exact thing, defective, won't play ... disc 1 plays fine, but the 5 5 77 disc 2 from both copies of the box set I bought will not play ... I can't imagine that I'm the only person with this issue, given my 0 for 2 performance on the same disk from 2 different box sets ... This is beyond frustrating. Has anybody else had issues with 5 5 77 disc 2?

I thought you set up sound systems?
But you have a 30-something do your music player?
Google and YouTube can probably teach you how to do it.
But, outsourcing is easier…..

Daverock,
Time for a TV upgrade.
You will like YouTube on your TV. Lots of concert videos there.
I watch all of Dave’s seaside chats on my TV. Also watch the D&C first-song previews that way.

Ha! I’m pushing 60 so not sure what category I’m in lol.
My head still feels youngish, but my old bones sure don’t ; )
I just know about the DAC thing because the thirty something that built my music Server tells me these things.
Not sure I could actually “do” it lol, though I bet it’s like most things: once you know how it’s pretty easy!

Oro - yes, that seems likely. I might give them a ring on Monday. I could do with knowing a few young people, really. I wouldn't want my motives to be misinterpreted - anybody under about 50 would probably do!

You should check with the store. I’m guessing you just need to DL DAC driver software to your computer?

For your TV, does it have HDMI inputs? If it’s 12 years old it might. If so you can get an Apple TV or other inexpensive streaming device that plugs into your tv like your cable tv or DVD. Your DVD might even be able to stream Dead videos from YouTube etc? But their user interface is usually pretty clunky.

Oro - my hi fi does have DAC built into it. The store I bought it from toild me this was one of the advantages of buying it. I did get a cable, shortly afterwards, but it didn't work and I got discouraged and never tried again. It might be an idea to ring the store again and get it properly set up. It works and sounds beautiful with cds, too.

cnkd - no, I have one of the old televisions that doesn't allow for connection with a computer. It's a handsomely sized flat screen-but I must have bought it about 12 years ago. But that would be something else-being able to watch youtube on the T.V. with sound coming out of my hi fi. I'd never go out again!

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