{"id":1580,"date":"2015-05-30T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2015-05-30T17:00:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T16:00:46","slug":"scary-format-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2015\/scary-format-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary Format Reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My penultimate purchase of music on vinyl was in 1989. I think, if memory at this distance serves, it was <em>Running in the Family<\/em> by Level 42. In the intervening 26 years I have felt very limited need to use other than CD or purely electronic formats.<\/p>\n<p>That all went out of the window last week, when I tried to track down a particularly arcane track by the King&#8217;s Singers (their version of Eurovision winner <em>Ding-a-Dong<\/em>, if you must know). Despite their enduring popularity their album <em>Lollipops<\/em> has apparently never been released in a digital format. However a few minutes on eBay and \u00a39 later I tracked down the LP, which turned up a few days ago nicely packed and in good order. Our record deck with a USB output and EZ Vinyl\/Tape Convertor made quick work of digitising it, although it did get a bit confused by the track on side 2 with the substantial rests&#8230; Makes you wonder why the youth of today are so obsessed with all this downloading business when the alternative is so straightforward <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wlEmoticon-smile1.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My penultimate purchase of music on vinyl was in 1989. I think, if memory at this distance serves, it was Running in the Family by Level 42. In the intervening 26 years I have felt very limited need to use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2015\/scary-format-reversal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}