Recent content by Owen Smith

I found it by running fix-disk in the first place. I believe the bad block gets remapped at that point when found, sometimes the old contents can be recovered with lots of re-reads and written to the remapped block but this one could not, which leads to a file with all working blocks but one of...

Well I renamed it to queue.db_old and rebooted and a new queue.db was created so I guess I'm good now. I'm going to run a long hard disk test. This is the first bad block ever shown on this box so it may be time to see if there are more.

It's the fact I should delete it and the custom firmware won't sort itself out automatically that is what I needed to know, thanks.

My HDR Fox T2 ground almost to a halt so I ran fixdisk and it found a corrupt block in queue.db. Do I need to do anything to recover fully ie will customised firmware now be not doing some processing eg. auto decrypt? Error given for the file was: The following file contains a corrupt block and...

Ken Bruce is essential listening for me and my parents, and Simon Mayo for me. But Freeview wasn't a good way to listen, it's a faff turning the TV and Humax on and if I recall correctly it was in mono anyway like lots of radio stations on Freeview. My best audio quality for Greatest Hits Radio...

And I directly pointed out in this thread that the encryption key can be changed, making it even easier to know it was possible.

Is C3 in the list of known parts that can fail on the wiki?

You can set the new HDR Fox T2 to the same encryption key as your failing one using the web UI. Then all encrypted recordings on the existing disc will be readable. I don't remember details of how the key is set per device but this forum may explain somewhere.

On my 2002 Mini Cooper S multi function steering wheel I have volume up/down, channel up/down and CD/radio buttons. They're on the back of the steering wheel, they fall nicely under the fingers when driving in the quarter to 3 position. They're not even labelled, but they're shaped such that you...

Since Classic FM changed to DAB+ I find I'm listening to it on FM again on my hifi. The DAB feed at 128kbps MP2 was on a par with FM given my FM reception is marginal for full stereo quieting. But since the change to DAB+ I'm definitely preferring the more natural sound of FM, the DAB+ feed...

Classic FM presenters usually (but not always) tell you what the track is and who the performers were. I do enjoy for soloists guessing who it is playing before the presenters say, I'm pretty good at spotting trumpeters.

Classic FM at 64kbps AAC sounds so much better than Scala at 40kbps AAC. It doesn't help that Scala don't appear to have Spectral Band Replication enabled whereas Classic FM do, so Scala are effectively running AAC-LC (low complexity) which was never meant to be used at such low bit rates.

That assumes you can work out which one is the relevant fuse, sometimes it is non trivial.

A reboot in a car can require the battery disconnecting, with attendant fun and games on some cars after reconnection.

The behaviour you describe is standard for a DAB+ channel on a DAB only radio, it tunes to the channel and shows the name but you get silence. When DAB was designed they assumed all channels forever would be MP2 and didn't put anything in for forwards expansion to say "this is a channel that DAB...