Who Said Gramophone Was Going Off the Tracks?

[Guest]

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[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Am I missing something here?

[Panjandrum]

Am I missing something here?

Do you think Compton MacKenzie would approve of one of his successors blogging on trialling a computer game?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Oh, I see. I thought from your headline that you were suggesting the opposite. It really is staggering how far this publication will go in order to dumb down.

[Nick Armstrong]

There really is a load of bllocks in the magazine these days. There is still just enough of interest to read, so I still buy it, as i have since the early 80s... But I no longer keep it, it gets thrown away once read (and I have found a good home for the 25 years' worth I had kept for reference)

[Panjandrum]

There really is a load of bllocks in the magazine these days. There is still just enough of interest to read, so I still buy it, as i have since the early 80s... But I no longer keep it, it gets thrown away once read (and I have found a good home for the 25 years' worth I had kept for reference)

Caliban, I hope you didn't incinerate them on the mistaken belief that the "Gramphone Archive" was the answer to all your storage prayers? For a while it seemed fantastic that one could access pdfs of the original magazines. However, now they have withdrawn that facility on the grounds of copyright over alleged misuse of some of the photographs in the magazine, one has to resort to reading the reviews using their bizarre scriptreading software. Ever tried finding a work by Dvôràk on it? I've finally worked out that if you type "Dvolik" or "Dvoaiik" you might stand a chance of getting a result.

And then there's the bizarre "&Apos" everytime an apostrophe appears. You would have thought that one of the most basic characters on the keyboard could have been recognised by the software, but apparently not.

Moreover, for some bizarre reason, they seem to have completely omitted the Awards issues from the archive, so heaven help anyone who has ditched all their old copies. For the life of me I cannot see why they dont just put the original reviews back on as pdfs and take out all the colour advertisements: job done surely?

[MickyD]

Oh my God, this one escaped my eye, Panjandrum! And me having been so vociferous in the Gramophone debate over the dropped CD, too. Inverne's nonsensical blog confirms what I have thought about him for some time - he even manages to get in a plug for another Haymarket computer magazine...was that part of his brief from the top? Glad to see PaulT has submitted an apt comment at the end - have a look quickly before it is removed by the moderator!

[John Wright]

For a while it seemed fantastic that one could access pdfs of the original magazines. However, now they have withdrawn that facility on the grounds of copyright

Yikes, I didn't know they had removed the pdf facility.

Myself and other fans of jazz and dance bands were considering a concerted effort to use their 'Spot an error?' facility, to help researchers using the pre-WWII issues. Some mistakes are 'spotable' on screen/page but it was very useful to look at the pdf and check what the real text was. They make lots of errors with record catalogue numbers and dates which are going to be difficult to 'spot' now.

[french frank]

Glad to see PaulT has submitted an apt comment at the end - have a look quickly before it is removed by the moderator!

Anyone who has reached the exalted position of editor of a 'reputable' national magazine and who can write that first sentence with such shameless insouciance, probably hasn't yet fathomed out what the comment is referring to

[Nick Armstrong]

Yikes, I didn't know they had removed the pdf facility

Nor me! Dammit!

[Nick Armstrong]

Caliban, I hope you didn't incinerate them on the mistaken belief that the "Gramphone Archive" was the answer to all your storage prayers? For a while it seemed fantastic that one could access pdfs of the original magazines. However, now they have withdrawn that facility on the grounds of copyright over alleged misuse of some of the photographs in the magazine, one has to resort to reading the reviews using their bizarre scriptreading software. Ever tried finding a work by Dvôràk on it? I've finally worked out that if you type "Dvolik" or "Dvoaiik" you might stand a chance of getting a result.

And then there's the bizarre "&Apos" everytime an apostrophe appears. You would have thought that one of the most basic characters on the keyboard could have been recognised by the software, but apparently not.

Moreover, for some bizarre reason, they seem to have completely omitted the Awards issues from the archive, so heaven help anyone who has ditched all their old copies. For the life of me I cannot see why they dont just put the original reviews back on as pdfs and take out all the colour advertisements: job done surely?

That was partly the reason... Although I consult the site so rarely I didn't even know about the .pdf withdrawal...

[MickyD]

Aha, I see that Paul T's comment on James Inverne's blog has now been removed.