• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Your favourite listenings......

Now that R4 Saturday Live has reached new depths I struggle to find anything worth listening to on Saturday mornings at work but found myself reunited with
Radcliiffe and Murconey on R6
Its a bit like John Peel in that you open -mindedly have to endure a fair percentage of sh1-te but youre rewarded with some gems especially from later times
Got this one last weekend

 
Cocteau Twins - Shoegaze before it was a thing. I'm more used to earlier albums like Treasure - this one has discernible words ! Love Liz Frazer's appearances in This Mortal Coil too.
 
Been enjoying several mixes of instrumentals and vocals out there in the guise of Audio tests.
For example:-

Obviously there are samples and styles that don't gel for me but overall they have been a source of some decent background listening.
I do wonder at the legality of this form of music distribution as very few images and sound tracks are attributed in the so called 'tests'.

These sites do lead you to other track listings, some of which are Chaptered such as this:- (currently listening)
Allowing identification of an unknown piece which can aid searches for other versions.
 
You tube would always be able to detect unlawful use by the metadata which could be circumvented easy with free software to remove it
I suspect with ai it would be more difficult to get it uploaded.
 
This is what YouTube suggested for me this morning, I guess it has got my background listening preferences tagged.
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My favourite listening during the day indoors is to Boom Light. There's many records from the 50s that we used to hear on the Light Programme. Quite nostalgic.Theres also later stuff, but also light orchestral.

Boom Light

In the workshop, I play Tony Blackburn 60s, Bob Harris 70s, and Paul Gamboccini all on BBC Sounds catchup.
 
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Must admit if I'm not in my armchair or its near surroundings I just resort to going over old ground from my .mp3 collection via Bluetooth from 'phone/tablet/ or memory stick dependant on location.
.mp3 is more than a match for my hearing these days.

Usually got something I'm happy to revisit, currently 8.45 GB in 95 folders- 1086 tracks extracted from my Records, CD's collection & downloads.

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Lot of overlap with my tastes there Chas. Love Queen, JMJ, sky (toccata), tangerine dream.

But my all time favourite is New folder - they are great ;-)
 
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