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Welcome to the new SuperDuper! 4.0—a ground-up rewrite, new from tip to tail.
https://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/supererduperer
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mastodon 4.7.2Owner of Shirt Pocket. Co-Wrote SuperDuper, BRIEF, Track Record. Wrote netTunes, launchTunes. Unredeemed gadget fan. Dog lover. Not that way.
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New article about SuperDuper! 4 available at TidBits:
https://tidbits.com/2026/08/03/superduper-4s-radical-new-interface-explains-itself-as-you-use-it/
Radiohead - Kid A
The question was, obviously, what the hell do you do after releasing OK Computer? If you keep going down that path, it's a long slide to irrelevance, and given their restlessness, boredom.
So, *hard* pivot, more studios, picking up on the extant electronica trend, but making it theirs.
On release I was pretty shocked & disappointed, and it took a while to embrace, but embrace it I have. Mingus-like, indeed.
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
There's not a lot to say about this masterpiece without sounding like a douche, so instead here's an article about it by the Music Aficionado:
https://musicaficionado.blog/2018/09/13/spirit-of-eden-by-talk-talk/
New half-speed master, and good pressing. Given the dynamics involved, the pressing *matters*.
One video of an edited track, to give an idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilvJkYY1G7Q
#nowplaying #vinyl #artrock #postrock #TalkTalk #MarkHollis #PaulWebb #TimFrieseGreene #LeeHarris
RE: https://mas.to/@dnanian/112152074853908213
Re-re-re-listen?
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Suzanne Vega - 99.9F
Re-listen. Such a good album. Bonus video of the sun, across the room, reflecting off the rotating LP onto the wall...
Kenny Dorham - The Complete 'Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia
Recent Tone Poet release of this classic 1956 set, expanded with the tracks added in the 1984 Japan release, plus more.
Dorham and the band (J. R. Monterose (tenor), Kenny Burrell (guitar), Bobby Timmons (piano), Sam Jones (bass), andArthur Edghill (drums)) are locked in and playing great.
Beautiful mono recording, mastering, pressing. Highly recommended.
#nowplaying #vinyl #KennyDorham #TonePoet #jazz
Who's got two thumbs and got his car back from its collision repair after three months?
>sigh<
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The new Beth Orton album's out by the end of the year, and she's posted a new live video as a preview:
https://youtu.be/vDvMExHWwo8
#BethOrton
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@flargh@mastodon.social @octothorpe@mastodon.online Even at the time it was a pretty hard turn from The Color of Spring, and a long wait. I remember being pretty surprised, at the time.
Reminded me a lot of what David Sylvian did post-Japan around the same time. And it's not like Da Yoots know about David Sylvian...
Pink Floyd - The Endless River
I've avoided late-period Pink Floyd, after The Wall. The Final Cut was execrable, and the post-Waters albums were...well, Gilmour is an amazing guitarist and a terrific singer, but he (and Polly Samson) write bland lyrics. Without the tension between him and Waters, their songs tend to be primarily atmospheric.
Which might be what you're in the mood for. And this LP gives you that, with only one track with lyrics.
It's...fine.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online @flargh@mastodon.social Well, this set the stage for all sorts of post-rock stuff that they are probably familiar with, so many we haven't failed them at all...
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@flargh@mastodon.social @octothorpe@mastodon.online Or maybe Spirit of the Beehive.
But probably not Blemish. He just kept moving further and further away from anything really resembling a "song", which isn't a bad thing, but it is harder to put on repeat.
It is nice to hear him working inside structure all over the Lucretia Dalt album, though.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online Never stopping for two old ladies crossing the street ever again! COURTESY, SAFETY, AND AVOIDING MANSLAUGHTER DO NOT PAY!
Laura Marling - Manchest Albert Hall 2025 - Patterns in Repeat
Laura Marling, in concert. The first half is her, solo, with her guitar doing material from her career. The 2nd half adds a choir and strings, doing Patterns in Repeat in full.
She's in great voice, and while the material in this form is a little monochromatic, the songs are great.
Video of the same concert: https://youtu.be/nsm1BpQbGFQ
Nicholas Payton - Triune
Three pretty stellar players -- Payton (keys, flugelhorn), Esperanza Spalding (bass, vocals), and Karriem Riggins (drums) -- get together to make modern, groove-centric jazz.
#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #NicholasPayton #EsperanzaSpalding #KarriemRiggins
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Yes, this is basically a Japanese Boulevadier. It’s also delicious. Try it and let me know what you think.
@octothorpe@mastodon.online You-know-who makes an appearance...but she has a lot to say, too.
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@andrewabernathy I mean, I guess I got to put winter miles on a rental instead of my car, which is good?
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@spitfire @octothorpe I think that's what the person who hit me did. Or equivalent foolishness.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online These were fixes in my intent, not in Apple’s code. I know what Apple’s bug is — they’re not cleaning up properly when the second ZIP is unzipped — but it remains busted in the system’s shortcut action. Years and years later.
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@octothorpe Making yourself scriptable wasn’t the same thing. 43+ years ago (ulp!) my first product, BRIEF, was scriptable. But it still got to define its UI, and the scripts were in *its* service, not the *system’s*.
RE: https://mas.to/@dnanian/112667290035527391
More than two years ago, I tried to work around the serious bug in Shortcuts’ “expand” action, and couldn’t get it to work.
Today, using Claude, I was able to fix the problem in about three minutes.
The bug in Shortcuts’ “expand” action still exists…I sent in Feedback *and* provided sample code years ago, with no action taken.
Thanks, Claude. Wish you had fixed it, Apple. ZIP files aren’t exactly obscure.
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LOOK! IT'S THE NEW DISCMAN!
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@nuthatch@infosec.exchange @octothorpe@mastodon.online @angry_drunk@union.place Not *that* expensive... a 10G SFP is something like $85. But you need a 10G switch that supports SFP modules, and then if you're not routing fast stuff through it...there's only so much you can do without upgrading the world.
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@octothorpe @flargh But it's there for them to find when they're ready to do so...certainly bands that were influenced found it.
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@nuthatch@infosec.exchange @octothorpe@mastodon.online @angry_drunk@union.place Indeed! No need to use this if it doesn't actually solve a problem.
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@angry_drunk@union.place @octothorpe@mastodon.online @nuthatch@infosec.exchange I thought that might be the case... :-)
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@octothorpe Now we have to convince @jon_alper that it's better than "music I would probably not turn off".
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@octothorpe It had to do with security scoping, perfectly matching the way the parameters come and and the iteratable collection is returned (which it determined by finding their code-level definitions in the framework) and, since the ZIP library unzips things with their permissions intact, resetting anything read-only before cleanup.
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A live track from the BBC 6 music festival:
https://youtu.be/165PZ0adpLY
#nowplaying #vinyl #MandyIndiana #industrial #noiserock #dancerock
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@octothorpe I think that, in general, turning your app into a bunch of faceless actions that the system calls is a great way to make yourself transparently replaceable…and, given store distribution, to pay for the privilege of becoming a literal cog in the machine.