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My friend Robert Benson (he runs the www.collectingvinylrecords.com website), has sent me an interesting link yesterday.

It’s an article from the Austin American-Statesman newspaper, titled “Everything Louder Than Everything Else”. Here’s a short review:

It’s author, Joe Gross, makes a very elaborate study on modern record loudness levels and tries to answer the question as to how and why does today’s popular music can be exhausting to us, the listeners.

Joe touches the subject on both sides: from the music enthusiast’s and from the sound engineer’s (a.k.a. “the expert’s”) point of view.

Read on for some interesting excerpts from the mentioned article…
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Yesterday, I went to the cinema with my girlfriend to watch the new Bond movie, “Casino Royale”. I must say that I liked it very much and in my humble opinion it’s the best 007 flick since “Golden Eye”. The agent himself is as coy and full of British sarcasm as always, but he’s more brutal than in the previous movies. Even the other characters call him a ruthless killing machine. But I can’t say that I liked everything in the movie…
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OK it’s time to make a pause on all (well, 2 for now to be exact) posts regarding the blog’s technical side, let’s get back to some of the main topics …

For some time I’ve been using Linux (for those of you who don’t know what Linux is: it’s another kind of operating system. To put it in a nutshell: consider it as a more “open” Windows), the well known Debian distribution to be exact. I’ve configured all the multimedia applications (music/video players, etc.), but I still lacked something. Then, while skipping through the available software, I stumbled upon the piece of software called “streamtuner”. That’s when I re-discovered internet radio stations…
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