Recent content by gomezz

No need to wait till the Monday. The extended version is usually up on iPlayer in time for watching on Saturday evening when the topicality is still pretty fresh.

After a bit of online searching followed the tip to unpair my phone and reboot the ICE then try Smartphone connection before doing anything and hurrah, got it working! But as I said I will only be using it, if at all, for longer journeys and even then I usually find that a two hour playlist is...

That turned out to be a bust. Physical USB connection recognised but Android Auto handshaking not working. Wonder if there is a firmware update for the ICE system? Or how much to replace the ICE system with a modern one that supports wireless Android Auto (a few hundred quid at a guess)? Ah...

I have a phobia about attaching magnets to an electronic gadget as I have a (probably obsessive and unwarranted) conviction that it may interfere with the electrons whizzing around inside.

Not a cat in hell's chance I will ever use voice operation to control a device. Unless at the very last it is the only way I can choose to turn off the life support at the end of my life.

Finally got the user manual out of the car to peruse at my leisure and check up on these things. Also found that I can use my old Kenu Airframe to hold my mobile attached to the air vent while resting on the top lip of the built in ICE screen. A bit more fiddly than the other quick-release...

Not sure I would fancy wearing a pre-loved jock strap! :o

With my new car there are physical buttons on the steering wheel to step through the radio presets I have set up which is fine as 99% of the time I will be wanting to listen to one of those twelve stations. But if I want to tab to a non-preset station from a preset station that is...

If you play on BBC Sounds its has a full track listing with the current one flagged as playing. Got a new (to me) car yesterday and went through setting up my presets but no 5 Live Sports Extra so I am assuming I need to wait until it is actually broadcasting something before the radio will...

I used to work with someone who's desk was covered with post-it notes. He then got sent on a Time Management course and he removed all the post-its and replaced them with a single post-it saying CHECK TIME MANAGER! :D

It was my car radio rebooting that convinced me to give up on nursing the old battery through another winter and splash out for a new one.

Some older DAB/DAB+ radios do not re-scan automatically so I suggest you go into settings and select re-scan (or whatever it is called on your radio).

It gives you shuffle play from a much larger selection of music of the given genre than you can ever hope for from your own music library. And shuffle play that is much more random without the repeats.

The effort and resources would be better spent turning BBC Sounds into a properly usable and functional media player for its audio offerings rather than the half-arsed effort it is at the moment.

Taking the middle value is a bit like "Umpire's Call" in cricket. :D