The Bumbling Electron

Monday, October 1, 2018

The ARCHIVE.ORG Manual Library

The site https://archive.org maintains lists of manuals for many types of vintage devices. Here is a list of some of the more interesting computer and consumer oriented ones.

Friday, September 21, 2018

Abseil - an open-source collection of C++ library code designed to augment the C++ standard library

Abseil is an open-source collection of C++ library code designed to augment the C++ standard library. The Abseil library code is collected from Google’s own C++ code base, has been extensively tested and used in production, and is the same code we depend on in our daily coding lives.

Friday, March 30, 2018

Enjoy the Music.com High-End Audio, Hi-Res Audio (HRA) & Music Industry News

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

The Science Websites That We Read Every Day

Monday, October 24, 2016

Reddit ShowerThoughts message popup

The ShowerThoughts sub-reddit on https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/ is all about those awesome epiphanies we all seem to get when we are in the shower. It is one of the few moments today when we are totally alone with our selves. No phones (unless you are on of the unlucky ones to own a waterproof bluetooth device). This python 3 applications uses the linux libnotify-bin program to pop up any new messages through out the day. This uses the os.system method to execute the notify-send command with title and message from the reddit post. Download on github Hope you enjoy

Monday, April 6, 2015

Jay Z Relaunches Tidal with a Parade of Celebrity Artists Tidal states about 2.5 million songs. Even if you count conservatively, some songs are counted more than once because they appear on multiple albums, say 750,000 unique title/artist combinations. My own flac file collection is just shy of 1 TB and it is less than 3000 titles. There is no player out there that can hold anywhere near the files I have in my own personal collection, let alone all of the titles in the Tidal library. Also, the new Meridian format, MQA, will be available soon on Tidal which give even better then cd quality. Even at $29.99 a month that would be worth it as long as the number and types of titles available in MQA warrant that pay level. I want to thank Tidal and Jay Z for what they are attempting to do here. Even if all they accomplish is to raise the level of awareness of higher quality audio to the masses, along with My. Young and his PONO/music service, it was worth the exercise. Your avid supporter William Main

Monday, January 19, 2015

Tidal HIFI is now sounding great in Canada

If you have the data plan to handle it, http://tidelhifi.com has streaming FLAC files at 1411 kbps - Lossless which is the equivalent to an audio CD at 16 bit/44.1 khz. They do provide three levels of streaming however. Standard Quality, High Quality and HIFI. These stream as follows Standard quality: 96 kbps (AAC +) High quality: 320 kbps (AAC) HiFi: Flac 1411 kbps - Lossless (16/44.1 khz) I listen to standard quality when I am out and about on my cell phone. When I am in WIFI either on the phone or one of my other computers I listen using HIFI. The cost is $19.99/month CAD which is about double everyone else on the streaming game. For me it is worth the expense. You will have to decide that for yourself. There is a free 7 day trial.