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Strange... Just did a full Twonkymedia rescan of the content on my NAS – 65,750 tracks – and it took about half an hour. The fact that the NAS plays movies fine through the network suggests the problem may be in the media server software rather than the NAS hardware itself, but I'm kind of at a...

Now running two QNAPs – a four-bay and a two-bay –, and not sure I recognise any of those problems: they just work for me, streaming content to (at the moment) a Naim NDS and NaimUniti, an Onkyo TX-NR818, a Sony netbox and a Cambridge Audio BD player (via Ethernet), as well as various portable...

I assume the OP's files are Apple Lossless, which IIRC the '905 can't handle over network. EDIT: The manual says 'Sampling rates of 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz and bitrates of between 16 and 320 kbps, are supported. Incompatible files cannot be played', so that means AAC files should be fine...

I don't think we've actively dropped them as in 'there will never be a competition again'; it's rather that we just haven't run one for a while.

I think of late we have been adopting other strategies – with some degree of success – to drive traffic to the site.

Actually, forum traffic is up around 50% on this time last year, both on page views and visits.

As it says, [DEEPLY OFFENSIVE TERM REMOVED and user banned]

Yup, from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 2010 figures Quite possibly, but then that just means the USA 20,000, China 3 figures would be even more wide of the mark.

Not quite: 14,748 Not quite: 13,410. (However, the relative populations means the USA murder rate is 4.8 per 100,000 people, while China's is 1 per 100,000)

Chris Apologies for that – can you mail us your postal address from the email address you used to register for the site (so we know it's you!), and we'll post you out a whole issue. Thanks/

There was a bootleg DVD-Audio floating around at one point claimed to be of the original Alan Parsons quadrophonic mix of Dark Side..., which was said at the time to be closer to the original intention than the SA-CD multichannel mix. Not being a Pink Floyd aficionado, however, I couldn't say...

No live event has the sound coming from two little boxes, so any recording is artificial. The 2L sessions were just an interesting experiment, both in the arrangment of the musicians around the microphones and the seating of the performers in mixed desks, and the result – IMHO, of course – is a...

In fact it sounds anything but artificial, with a superb sense of involvement and beautiful clarity. Apart, of course, from the real-life situation in which the recording was made.

It's relatively unusual to have an audience at a recording session, for obvious reasons, although of course some labels do record live performances, LSO Live being an example.

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