Infected Rain
The ladies of Metal keep on producing killer music.
Yikes!
Damn, where does the time go? Can’t believe it’s been over 12 months since the last entry. I really did intend to make this a regular thing this time. Oh well. Shit happens.
Anyway, while I’m here I might as well add something worth adding. So I recently bought a new 2nd hand vehicle; a 2015 AWD, diesel, Ford Territory Titanium to be precise. Now this sucker has all the bells and whistles for a 10 year old Aussie-made Ford–which isn’t necessarily saying much because Ford always seemed to be behind Holden and others in this regard, but I digress–and one of those is the console Media Centre. This bastard is run by Microsoft Sync™2 which is fine but blimey the information for it is sadly lacking in actual details. So here’s what I’ve learnt about using this 10+ year old software in 2025: 1) do not bother trying to use a USB stick larger than 32Gb because it can only read fat32 and no other format [despite what some other sites have claimed], 2) it does not recognise FLAC but it does recognise lossless WMA, 3) the bitrate doesn’t seem to matter but do not try to use a file with a sample rate higher than 44 kHz.
Lossless Audio Checking
Lossless Audio Checker is a free program that can allegedly tell if a FLAC or WAV file is truly lossless or whether it’s transcoded or otherwise adulterated. Yeah Nah. It don’t work, I’m sorry to say. How do I know this? I converted a .MP3 file to a .FLAC file, and L.A.C. told me it was “clean”. Wut??
At least Spek can see the difference.
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