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My grandfather bought this Tissot in 1969 in Frankfurt with one of his first paychecks. Amazingly, it will still come back to life if it's wound or worn for a while.

I recently sent it to Richard Askham at The Watch Spot for a service, but unfortunately the diagnosis wasn't good.

At some point in its life, it was serviced by someone who fitted the wrong crown and stem. Because this watch uses a two-piece stem that's removed from the front, forcing the incorrect stem out has damaged the movement over time. Richard also found that both dial feet had been broken off and the dial had been glued to the movement. The date ring is badly scratched, the crystal is cracked, and there are a few other issues too.

Sadly, Richard said repairing the original movement isn't financially or technically viable because the required parts are now extremely difficult to find.

I'm not completely surprised. My grandfather also owned a Raymond Weil that had its crystal replaced with what was literally a piece of window glass after it broke, so whoever worked on his watches clearly wasn't concerned with doing things properly.

The watch has a lot of sentimental value to me, and I absolutely love the late-60s space-age design and bracelet, so I'd really like to get it running again.

What would you do in this situation? Would the best option be to source a donor movement and transplant it, or are there other possibilities I'm overlooking? If a movement swap is the way to go, where would you start looking?

I'd really appreciate any advice from people who've dealt with projects like this before.

I iust got this roll back from the lab and all the photos are insanely grainy like these ones. I was suprised since even those that are in sunlight seem underexposed. Im wondering if I just ended up getting a setting wrong with my Minolta X-700 or whether I should ask the lab.

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Hey everyone!

Like a lot of you, I've been loving my modded iPod Classic with Rockbox, but I was constantly frustrated by how hard it is to mirror my curated Spotify playlists over to my local library. I couldn't find an easy way to do it, so I built one!

What it does: If you already have your music files stored locally, this web app fuzzy-matches your local tracks against a Spotify playlist (or album) and generates a clean .m3u8 file perfectly ordered to match Spotify.

• Zero Duplicates: Just drop the generated .m3u8 into your /Playlists/ folder in Rockbox. It points directly to your existing files, saving you storage space.
• Fix Album Sorting: It’s also super handy for getting album folders in order, just generate an .m3u8 for the album and drop it in.

Spotify API Limits: Because Spotify has heavily restricted their developer API, I unfortunately can't host a public version for everyone to use at once.

But the good news is the project is completely open-source! You just need to fork the repo and run it locally or deploy it yourself. I've written a step-by-step guide in the README, so even if you aren't a developer, you can get it running in just a few minutes.

Have a look!

Let me know what you think! Feel free to open an issue on GitHub if you run into any bugs or have feature requests. Hope this saves you all some time!