<p>Plex is a great way to manage your media library. Doug and Kirk discuss how they use it. Note: we recorded this episode before the lockdown began, but held off publishing it because we had a number of interviews with musicians in lockdown. </p>

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<li><a href="https://www.plex.tv/" rel="nofollow">Plex</a></li>
<li><a href="https://amzn.to/2XOXNg0" rel="nofollow">A Suitable Boy</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/from-the-ncpa-archives-vilayat-khan-remastered/504526419" rel="nofollow">Ustad Vilayat Khan: From the NCPA Archives</a></li>
<li><a href="https://amzn.to/3f8yviB" rel="nofollow">The Pointer Sisters: Yes We Can Can - The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings</a></li>
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Episode #186 - Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani

Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn discuss music and musicians, and how we listen to music, whether it be analog or digital, downloaded or streamed, audio, or video.