On 6/27/2013 10:41 AM, Horatio Kemeny
wrote:
\ufffdSpencer, I think we'll have to disagree on your conclusions. I'm not sure what to make of your statement that someone who knows a piece of music too well might actually be impairing their ability to experience it fully. I would submit the exact opposite.
As a very simple experiment, do this. Find some obscure piece you've never heard, something for a quartet or quintet. Listen to the piece two or three times. Although you'll be noticing little things each subsequent time, it's pretty much the same piece.
Now listen to it again, but specifically focus on only one instrument. Violin, cello, whatever. Do this for all the different instruments (which I why I suggest something with less instrumentation). After listening to the last isolated instrument, now listen again, at the whole thing. You will hear everything the composer intended, and you've done so by familiarizing yourself with every nuance, not how it sounds as a whole, but independently. But the human brain is fantastic at combining all that information, creating a whole that's far bigger than the sum of the parts. Indeed, that's what good music is\ufffd so to go after professional musicians as being too close to the music to truly appreciate it\ufffd well, no.
On the other topic, I'm not sure ahas the Android app does. The iPhone app allows pretty much all of the control available, including the ability to search and access all of the stored content\ufffd in a very convenient and intuitive manner.
While on that topic I have a question regarding the internal HDD, but that belongs in its own thread\ufffd I'll write a separate message.
\ufffd..HK
-- Best regards, Spencer Chase 67550-Bell Springs Rd. Garberville, CA 95542 Postal service only. Laytonville, CA 95454 UPS only. Spencer@... http://www.spencerserolls.com (707) 984-8356 (425) 791-0309