Oh, youse of little faith!

Posted on August 31, 2026 by Naomi

How many of you believed my complaint to Music Choice for their endlessly repeated and slashed repertory would get a response?

Well, it did:

Hi Naomi,

We apologize for the inconvenience. Our team is aware of the playback issue and is actively working on a fix.

We appreciate your patience while we work to resolve it, and we’ll follow up with you as soon as the fix is in place.

Thank you for being a Music Choice listener!

I’ll check back with 1942 tomorrow. Meanwhile, I’m listening to 1941 — which they call Light Classical but isn’t — and have been hearing some terrific music. And not over and over again. Not yet, anyway.

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Mysteries of Life: A new, uh, fad? NYC sewer sneaks

Posted on August 30, 2026 by Naomi

That’s the New York Times headline on the story. It’s caused me at least a couple of minutes of thought, during which I came up with an answer:

Because this is New York City, and because they are there.

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Something is wrong with Music Choice!

Posted on August 30, 2026 by Naomi

Did they think I wouldn’t notice? Over the past week, Channel 1942 (Spectrum) has played the same classical music pieces in the exact same order.

What the fuck is going on over there — wherever “there” is — with Music Choice? Someone has created what the film business calls (or used to call) an air loop, generally of some background sound like city traffic or a screaming mob infuriated because their music station is screwing around with them.

Is Music Choice’s massive collection of work from famous and utterly obscure composers being run by a musically ignorant AI? Or maybe a disgruntled MAGAt has created that loop and no one can figure out how to dismantle it. Or or or…

In any case, I’m pissed. And I wrote to Music Choice so informing them.

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