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Bass Transcriptions : websites and books

Thanks so much to all the musicians who created this amazing music and those that painstakingly transcribed it! I encourage you to go to the websites of the transcription folk listed below and click on their links to buy stuff or ads so they can get revenue to help support their work.

Tab alone just doesn't cut it. Transcriptions have and continue to be so helpful in developing my small but growing knowledge of lines and styles.

When I started playing bass whatever I learnt was by ear. Then I got some bass instruction books and my first transcription book about Jaco Pastorious - from zero to hero! Not exactly a gradual introduction ;) Fast forward past many bass-less years to this past 12 months when I got into the bass again, bought a couple and started learning riffs and complete basslines from transcriptions, both bought and free online resources. There are some absolutely amazing resources out there, put out by bass players who are highly skilled and open with their work…

Adding POIs to Mercedes-Benz COMAND / NAVI

If you have a Mercedes-Benz car with inbuilt Satnav and a data card slot (e.g. SD) then this post may be of interest to you, including Howto, Details, POI Services, POI Icons, Linux, Resources. This may all be applicable to all such cars, but tested working on a 2017 W222. I used Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS) although any other modern OS will do, such as Windows or OSX.

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get an SD card that your car can read (1GB is more than enough)on a computer add the folder PersonalPOI to the SD cardobtain GPX files and make sure they have the GPX extension and comply with Mercedes GPX format (need GPX files? see 3rd Party POI Services below)then, copy over the GPX files (see the discussion here on formatting) to this PersonalPOI folderin your car, put your SD card in the SD card slotopen the car's SatNav (e.g NAVI) and wait for the POIs to load (5-10 secs, for me)the POIs can not be imported to the COMAND hard drive, so the SD card must always be present in the SD card slot when you want to…

Linux HTPC with OpenELEC, XBMC, DVB-T, PVR/DVR, HDMI-CEC, iPlayer and more

Stumbled across OpenELEC the other day which inspired me to create a new HTPC system. I looked around for hardware and settled on a Zotac Nano AD10 box (here on ebay) with dual core AMD E350 (I wanted to try AMD having had a Intel Atom ION chipset HTPC for a while), 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD. What I liked about it was that it had eSATA and 2 x USB 3.0 ports, plus had a remote control that worked with OpenELEC and XBMC. All for £250. Sweet! Here it is in action...
What it can do:
play all my Movies, Music and TV Recordingswatch TV & listen to Radio with crystal clear tuningschedule TV & Radio recordings, including seriesmove TV recorded movies to my Movies folder (manual, currently)use my TV remote control to control totally my media centreone click launch for fullscreen iPlayer, ITVplayer and 4oDautorip DVD*Hardware:
HTPC : Zotac Nano AD10 2GB/320GBDVB-T : Hauppage Nova Win TV USB stickDrive : Seagate 2TB USBHDMI-CEC adapter : Pulse 8 TV : Samsung 46" LED UE46B7020Here's what…

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