Anyway while waiting for a Mastodon patch to be released I looped and mangled some recordings of frogs and cicadas and here's 30 seconds of that nonsense.

So if anyone was wondering and didn't set up the experiment in advance - an iPhone with the "silent" switch turned on still made a noise during the test.

#ausalert

I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to pull this apart again one day, because I didn't have the right size belt and I've doubled up a larger one instead. One day it'll probably slip and gum up again but at least I know it's fully alive and functional now so it'll be worth doing properly.

Or hell, maybe it's good for another 20 years now!

I have been hoping for ages that the belt was the only issue because this thing was a very good example of 2006-ish home audio and it plays any retail CD, has no trouble with CD-R like some early players, and even will handle a CD full of MP3s, plus SD cards, USB drives ... and it's got an iPod dock too.

Classic.

I managed to fix this old mini system the other day (the only issue really was the eject mechanism on the CD player needed a new belt) and today Moby is assisting me in the office.

Thanks, Moby.

Thoby.