Having a lot of data about music releases is cool, but we should not forget that in the end the most important thing is to actually listen to the music and to enjoy it. That means that you need to have decent equipment to listen to. And, like everything else, at some point it starts to break down. It is easy to just throw out the old broken stuff and to buy new equipment, but it might be worth looking at repairing instead of buying new. This year I repaired an amplifier and a cassette recorder. For me this wasn't easy: I might be good with software, but debugging physical objects is not my forte (my former boss went as far as describing me as someone with two left hands, and ten thumbs). Nevertheless I decided to try as there was nothing to lose: the equipment was already no longer working and we had started to look at replacements (but not decided yet), so I wanted to give it a shot to see if I could give these devices a second life. Sony CFS-W303L The cassette recorder I rep...
A blog dedicated to two of my hobbies: vinyl records and digital data and exploring where the two intersect. This blog is not affiliated with Discogs, but uses a lot of its data. On Discogs you can find me as metalmijn. I also get a lot of help from a friend you can find on Discogs as gerjolp Check out my Discogs cleanup scripts at: https://github.com/armijnhemel/cleanup-for-discogs/