I may be the only poor sop around who would choose to listen to Bruce Tonkin and the Councilors while at the gym, but that was what I had hoped to put on the Mini-Disc for today's workout. Sony had a different view though. I've previously written about my problems using the NetMD Mini-Disc Recorder/Player to record and upload original material, but today I discovered a completely different problem. When trying to move the Names Council recording from my laptop to the Sony Mini-Disc, I received a message that I can only upload 16 bit audio at 44.1Khz. Huh? Why does the linking software or Mini-Disc care how my mp3 file is encoded? I can only suspect that it has something to do with the IP Constituency.

So I listened to Dave Alvin instead.