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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 13, 2016 15:29:59 GMT
In the car I much prefer to have my music on shuffle. Never know what comes next, sometimes it a pleasant surprise, sometimes its a "skip" Cranks will understand when I say shuffle doesn't work so well with Wagner. I know each act ought to be a single track but they're seldom indexed that way, and you wouldn't want yer gods crossing the rainbow bridge to Valhalla before yer giants have finished building it, would you? And I prefer my seasons one after the other in the right order. No reason therefore why you cant edit them into one "track" Otherwise its good and entertaining to shuffle from Jose Caerras, to Spandau, via Sharron Isbin.
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Post by crankcase on Sept 14, 2016 6:48:54 GMT
Or indeed, your Proclamation after your Valedictory. Gently, that would be a Giant mistake, and you would receive neither power nor glory.
Bonus points for the year.
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Post by WDB on Sept 17, 2016 17:12:45 GMT
Or indeed, your Proclamation after your Valedictory. Gently, that would be a Giant mistake, and you would receive neither power nor glory. Bonus points for the year. Well, no points for me because four of your words were enough for Google to give me 1974. But I thought I'd try it with the new setup, which seems to work. £20 for the Bayan Bluetooth box (including cables), £6 for the crude but adequate Belkin vent clip, four 3M sticky pads and a couple of strips of black tape and away we go. Does what I was hoping for in terms of making the music controls accessible while driving. Unfortunately, it would take more shuffling than even Apple could contrive to get the notes of The Power and the Glory into a sequence I could listen to again. I lasted 15 minutes.
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 17, 2016 17:47:30 GMT
Or indeed, your Proclamation after your Valedictory. Gently, that would be a Giant mistake, and you would receive neither power nor glory. Bonus points for the year. Well, no points for me because four of your words were enough for Google to give me 1974. But I thought I'd try it with the new setup, which seems to work. £20 for the Bayan Bluetooth box (including cables), £6 for the crude but adequate Belkin vent clip, four 3M sticky pads and a couple of strips of black tape and away we go. Does what I was hoping for in terms of making the music controls accessible while driving. Unfortunately, it would take more shuffling than even Apple could contrive to get the notes of The Power and the Glory into a sequence I could listen to again. I lasted 15 minutes. Oh come on, that black tape is shit. Tuck the bloody excess wires up under the trim
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 17, 2016 17:50:54 GMT
Lets bring this back to the news www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37389800This is headline grabbing crap. The chances of getting caught while texting or using your phone are virtually nil, due to HM govs steadfast reliance on getting rid of officers and relying on cameras . Its a pathetic diversion away from real issues and root causes.
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Post by WDB on Sept 17, 2016 18:05:06 GMT
Tuck the bloody excess wires up under the trim Yes, they're too long, but they're only the ones that came packed with the Bluetooth unit. Now I'm sure I'm keeping it, I'll look for some shorter (and possibly flatter) ones.
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Post by harleyman on Sept 17, 2016 19:59:57 GMT
Lets bring this back to the news www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37389800This is headline grabbing crap. The chances of getting caught while texting or using your phone are virtually nil, due to HM govs steadfast reliance on getting rid of officers and relying on cameras . Its a pathetic diversion away from real issues and root causes. True. It's compounded by our cultural insistence on answering the damn phone no matter where or what we're doing, so scared are we of missing something. On my old phone, my answering message told callers that I was probably driving and that I'd ring them back when I stopped. Like drink driving, there's a hard core of people who'll phone or text whilst driving no matter what the penalties are. The thing that tends to irk me most is that many seem to be driving the sort of cars which suggest that the cost of a hands-free or Bluetooth device would be small change for them.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2016 20:33:21 GMT
My mobile phone is on silent. Permanently. Both of my daughters know an SMS code that can be sent to my phone to turn it on to loud, if needed, but other than that it is not for me to be called at the whim of others. It is for my convenience, no one else's.
I have no car kit. I do have a car charger. I own no earphones with microphone for it.
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Post by WDB on Sept 17, 2016 22:20:55 GMT
I take much the same view, Otto. This car is the first I've had with a Bluetooth kit and I've been pleasantly surprised by it. I don't Bluetooth my work phone to it, so it's used almost entirely for 'on my way' calls home in the evenings. It hardly ever rings when I'm in the car, but I'm very selective about answering it when it does. For an undemanding conversation, it's no different from talking to someone in the car with me, but I've trained the family to tolerate the occasional silence while I negotiate a traffic situation. I wouldn't consider taking a complex work call while driving.
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Post by crankcase on Sept 19, 2016 7:39:32 GMT
Being not a sociable person, although I have had Bluetooth enabled on my phone and in my cars for some years now, I don't actually get any calls.
In fact, I've just looked at my call history. Since 2012, when I got this phone, I've had five, and two of those were me testing the number.
And without re-diverting back to stale conversations, WDB, I didn't intend for you to actually attempt to listen! That's hard work! Be like thinking, oh, I'll try a spot of something a bit different and starting with Parsifal.
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Post by WDB on Sept 19, 2016 8:30:58 GMT
I judged it would be rude not to - and fun to try. I was only going to Homebase for some salt for the water softener, so I wasn't steeling myself for a major undertaking.
And then I came home to make dinner (beef and bean enchiladas, since you asked) and played the whole of Rheingold for the first time in ages. The 'Lings were intrigued; we'll have to try Walküre next weekend. With a slow-baked shoulder of lamb, perhaps.
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