Sound and vision
First off, thanks to reader “Goats” for poking me.. I needed a kick up the arse to get back to this blog thing. Background In August of last year I mentioned in passing that I fitted a solid state drive to an old 2006 iPod Video (aka 5th generation). So I guess the first question…
Warning! This is a publish of a draft post I found from September 2014 (11 years ago!).. its waaay out of date, but I’ve lately been contemplating trying to get Mythbackend up and running, so tidied it up and will hit publish. If I can’t publish it in the past, it’ll show up in 2026..…
So I picked up a few 256GB solid state drives on a whim. Its time to upgrade some of the older drives around the house in the PC’s which need the capacity. This time, I decided to just buy msata drives, and use more mSATA to 2.5″ adapters to fit them into desktops and laptops. …
So Kenwood have released some cheap, apparently decent FLAC capable digital media head units (i.e. car stereos). Digital media means there’s no CD transport – they play back via USB or Aux-in only, and include iPod control. The European version is the KMM-257, and in North America its called the KMM100. The difference is basically…