Schu Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 That doesnt work... beleive me, I tried that already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJIann Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 I bought a small cheap Acer mini laptop to hook up to my audio system as a dedicated music server for HD and other digital files. I keep the music on an external 2TB hard drive and use Foobar2000 to manage the music. Computer connected to Outlaw Audio 975 preamp via HDMI, then into my vintage McIntosh/Klipsch system. I really like it a lot. I used to use Itunes, but really could not stand the constant changes by CrApple with every update. Foobar is great for managing files, adding any artwork you want via tagging, converting between formats, etc. I keep everything as Flac files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerwoodKhorns Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 as of today, i store all of my music on a DIY homebrew NAS called unRAID. on that server I have an application called subsonic which enables me to play music on phone and computer when I'm not on the home network - transcodes everything to mp3 on the fly in order to save bandwidth. at home I am using a raspberry pi b+ running Archphile. It's a very minimalistic package, but connects directly to my NAS (wirelessly!) with network shares and plays back bit perfect to my usb dac through a modified version of MPD. it also includes a module to enable Airplay streaming from my iOS devices. i use an app called "beets" for importing my music. it queries the musicbrainz database and cleans up all of the tags, maintains a database of my entire library, and renames the files/embeds artwork/etc. I hate linux, and yet all of my media infrastructure now runs on linux variants. go figure. (i also just setup another raspberry pi to run all of the original Neo Geo games and a handful of classic arcade favorites in my slow progress Neo Geo "big red" cabinet restoration project.) Thad, Please (PLEASE!!) start a separate thread on this and give more info on what you did. I am about to take a server out of service and I (as well as a few friends) all need to get set up with this. Thanks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joessportster Posted December 19, 2014 Author Share Posted December 19, 2014 I agree that would be an interesting thread PLEASE use layman terms, we are not all techies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joessportster Posted December 19, 2014 Author Share Posted December 19, 2014 (edited) I bought a small cheap Acer mini laptop to hook up to my audio system as a dedicated music server for HD and other digital files. I keep the music on an external 2TB hard drive and use Foobar2000 to manage the music. Computer connected to Outlaw Audio 975 preamp via HDMI, then into my vintage McIntosh/Klipsch system. I really like it a lot. I used to use Itunes, but really could not stand the constant changes by CrApple with every update. Foobar is great for managing files, adding any artwork you want via tagging, converting between formats, etc. I keep everything as Flac files. This is very much like my setup except i use headphones.......................could not agree more about ITunes. which hard drive do you use ?? Edited December 19, 2014 by joessportster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 I'll see what I can put together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerwoodKhorns Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Sweet. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joessportster Posted December 19, 2014 Author Share Posted December 19, 2014 13,334 files now in flac and attached to j-river library, ready for the next project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Joe, how did you handle the duplicates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Joe, how did you handle the duplicates? This question should be put to Thebes. He's in charge of twins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Sweet. Thank you. started the thread here: https://community.klipsch.com/index.php?/topic/154353-digital-file-based-music-how-i-do-it/ I'll try to complete it tonight, but it may take a day or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJIann Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I bought a small cheap Acer mini laptop to hook up to my audio system as a dedicated music server for HD and other digital files. I keep the music on an external 2TB hard drive and use Foobar2000 to manage the music. Computer connected to Outlaw Audio 975 preamp via HDMI, then into my vintage McIntosh/Klipsch system. I really like it a lot. I used to use Itunes, but really could not stand the constant changes by CrApple with every update. Foobar is great for managing files, adding any artwork you want via tagging, converting between formats, etc. I keep everything as Flac files. This is very much like my setup except i use headphones.......................could not agree more about ITunes. which hard drive do you use ?? I am using a Toshiba hard drive. I back it up periodically to a second drive as well. Have you had good luck with any particular hard drive type over another Joe? And, by the way, I've really been using headphones a lot lately as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joessportster Posted December 20, 2014 Author Share Posted December 20, 2014 Joe, how did you handle the duplicates? Unfortunately I did it manually the new flac file is about half the size with 13400+ files and no duplicates, 350 GB ish check your PM's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joessportster Posted December 20, 2014 Author Share Posted December 20, 2014 I bought a small cheap Acer mini laptop to hook up to my audio system as a dedicated music server for HD and other digital files. I keep the music on an external 2TB hard drive and use Foobar2000 to manage the music. Computer connected to Outlaw Audio 975 preamp via HDMI, then into my vintage McIntosh/Klipsch system. I really like it a lot. I used to use Itunes, but really could not stand the constant changes by CrApple with every update. Foobar is great for managing files, adding any artwork you want via tagging, converting between formats, etc. I keep everything as Flac files. This is very much like my setup except i use headphones.......................could not agree more about ITunes. which hard drive do you use ?? I am using a Toshiba hard drive. I back it up periodically to a second drive as well. Have you had good luck with any particular hard drive type over another Joe? And, by the way, I've really been using headphones a lot lately as well. I like the WD reds, they only run at 5400 but for music purposes they are great and have a really good reputation as a robust / reliable drive I have 3 or 4 backups all on reds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Joe, how did you handle the duplicates?Unfortunately I did it manually the new flac file is about half the size with 13400+ files and no duplicates, 350 GB ish check your PM's How do you guys consume your music? By track, or by album? I have many albums by artists with redundant tracks - but if you remove the duplicates you have incomplete albums, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Thad, do you remember when Napster made the scene with peer to peer networks and people were sharing music all over the place without a care in the world. Well, that + albums converted, + purchased cds + Itunes + (you get the idea) = several copies of some songs/albums and at different qualities. I want a program that hunts down all duplicates and erases them. Highest priority for deletion given to the lowest quality files. Some of my old stuff actually has digital skips in it like anything sub 100 kbps can be brutal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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