Working my way through my Jethro Tull playlist. It’s 14 hours long, so I’ll be finished working well before it stops. Feels like a Tull kind of day. I know, wot no metal?!

@vanessa That's a lot of Tull. I could listen to my favourite album, Songs From The Wood, on a loop.

@vanessa I get that. I have a few of those. Albums I've listened to for decades and never get tired of.

@vanessa Thursday is Tull day?

@cn It is this week. Until Arq backup plus searching my work online email archive killed my broadband for a while. All good now, though.

@vanessa every day is a soundtrack day; interspersed with other random stuff (and annoying ads – Ich bin ein cheapskate)

@cn Ahh. I don't do Spotify, free or otherwise. Figured Amazon was good enough. I've not been listening to music while working much lately, which isn't like me. Almost forgot how relaxing it is - I have music on overnight still, so no logic there.

@vanessa I tend to bulldoze the ads with tracks played randomly from Vox; sometimes need things I didn’t buy (yet)

@cn What I really ought to set up is a means of being able to play all the music I have purchased. I have it uploaded to OneDrive & on removable drives, just need to figure out the streaming. Need some kind of media server I guess... Bit complicated for me.

@vanessa probably @jack’s department, music streaming…?

@cn @vanessa I'm an unabashed fan of Roon, but it doesn't stream my library outside of it's local network (e.g. my house). I haven't found a solution to that either so I fall back to Tidal for streaming. I'm guessing something on my Synology will do it, but haven't dug in yet.

@jack Thanks, things to look into. I have Echo devices, so can play from my online library to mobile device and Bluetooth etc, but that's clunky. My HiFi is very old, but I like what I have. I could maybe hook a Pi up to my A/V thing, but that loses the convenience of shouting at Alexa. Hmmm.

@vanessa I have a HomePod but no Apple Music subscription. Weird, right?. I realized that I don't choose music that way. I'm visual and prefer to scroll through a library or thumb through my records, so I don't miss the vocal controls so much. A Pi would be fun, though, no? :)

@jack I have a Pi B and a Pi 3 sitting unused, so maybe I should do something constructive with one of them. Even if just as a means of getting music to my speakers via my Yamaha media centre amp thing. My Nad is stubbornly old-school (& I still love it).