Anomalies

[french frank]

what classical music you lisnin' to's propensity for stickiness back in evidence....

With this nice weather people should be out doing the gard'nin' not lisnin' to music ...

[oddoneout]

With this nice weather people should be out doing the gard'nin' not lisnin' to music ...

Thanks to technology it is now possible to do both - tough luck if someone else's music choices aren't yours and in-ear options are not chosen.
Which reminds me, many years ago the chap who rented the allotment next to mine liked to listen to the radio while he was working and had made a little stand to put his wireless on. A combination of having defective hearing(damaged at work) and not bothering to move the radio as he worked on different parts of the plot meant that I had little choice but to hear a great deal of local radio and assorted 'easy listening'.

[french frank]

Thanks to technology it is now possible to do both

I admit I'm the Odd One Out here . I find the mass of humanity's inclination - or need - to listen to music virtually all the time (because they can) ... weeeeird. Walk along the street and most people are either wearing headphones or AirPods/earbuds (some are admittedly chatting on their phones). A smaller, but still significant, number are no more than walking zombies. No wonder people don't mind the current 'tune in/tune out' Radio 3 programming.

[Pulcinella]

What Classical.....has ground to a halt again.

[Pulcinella]

There's no new news on R3.

[Nick Armstrong]

The ‘Advanced Search’ function on the current Forum platform is pretty flawed…

In order to add my recent post on the “Alexander Malofeev” thread, which I knew existed (but not on which board or how long ago), I put the two words Alexander & Malofeev in the search box (with & without inverted commas), ticked ‘title only’ … and got zero results…

Using just “Alexander” as a search term produced multiple pages of results… trawling through which led me to the right thread.

Very odd that instead of refining the search, adding “Malofeev” seems to have fused its little search brain/algorithm/whatever

[Pulcinella]

The ‘Advanced Search’ function on the current Forum platform is pretty flawed…

In order to add my recent post on the “Alexander Malofeev” thread, which I knew existed (but not on which board or how long ago), I put the two words Alexander & Malofeev in the search box (with & without inverted commas), ticked ‘title only’ … and got zero results…

Using just “Alexander” as a search term produced multiple pages of results… trawling through which led me to the right thread.

Very odd that instead of refining the search, adding “Malofeev” seems to have fused its little search brain/algorithm/whatever

It certainly is!
Takes me forever sometimes (e.g., YouTube videos with score).
But in this instance, on my iPad, I just typed Alexander Malofeev in the Search box top right (so no need to go Advanced) and the thread appeared as the second hit, just under your new Anomalies post.

[AuntDaisy]

The ‘Advanced Search’ function on the current Forum platform is pretty flawed…

In order to add my recent post on the “Alexander Malofeev” thread, which I knew existed (but not on which board or how long ago), I put the two words Alexander & Malofeev in the search box (with & without inverted commas), ticked ‘title only’ … and got zero results…

Using just “Alexander” as a search term produced multiple pages of results… trawling through which led me to the right thread.

Very odd that instead of refining the search, adding “Malofeev” seems to have fused its little search brain/algorithm/whatever

Temporary glitch? It seems to be working now... and comes up with Natchtigall's 2019 initial post. Your 13:29 post is at the end of the thread.

[Nick Armstrong]

Temporary glitch? It seems to be working now... and comes up with Natchtigall's 2019 initial post. Your 13:29 post is at the end of the thread.

Ah? How odd…

I’ve had the impression in the past that the search function was deficient (perhaps erratic is a better word) but hadn’t really focused on it, and thought it might have been my ineptitude. The ‘Malofeev’ incident seemed like evidence that it wasn’t my fault. (Maybe it doesn’t like iPhones)

[teamsaint]

The forum apparently blocked my IP address while I was in Germany. I seemed to be able to access any other sites.

I was using both 4/5G and a domestic internet connection.

[AuntDaisy]

Ah? How odd…
I’ve had the impression in the past that the search function was deficient (perhaps erratic is a better word) but hadn’t really focused on it, and thought it might have been my ineptitude. The ‘Malofeev’ incident seemed like evidence that it wasn’t my fault. (Maybe it doesn’t like iPhones)

Yes, the Search function could be better. I'm mainly on a PC.

The "Malofeev Incident" sounds like a new Holmes story - possibly involving a giant capybara?

[vinteuil]

Yes, the Search function could be better. I'm mainly on a PC.

The "Malofeev Incident" sounds like a new Holmes story - possibly involving a giant capybara?

... "a story for which the world is not yet prepared"

[Pulcinella]

Funny things have got stuck!

[Pulcinella]

And now our bottles of wine need to be unstoppered!

[Pulcinella]

WCM 4 is stuck.

(Also, if you can, please move the two threads I started in The Choir to Performance instead. Apologies. Thanks in anticipation.)