USNRET Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 Hope this is in the right place What I want to achieve 1) A media server such as Audiophile Vortexbox that can be headless and controlled/monitored by an iPad. 2) Able to see artwork for all music and movies on the iPad without an external monitor 3) Ability to rip DVDs and BluRay from discs to HDD storage and played back thru the AVR with DD 5.1. I have about 500 DVDs, 100 BRDs and a Terabyte of loss less music. 4) Ability to transfer / copy audio files from the various hard drives that I have The "BOX" would connect to an Oppo BDP-105D to play thru a Marantz AV8801 for movies and for the wife to easily play stored music and also to a Schiit Gungnir DAC feeding my NBS pre-amp and a separate Schiit Lyr-2 headphone amp for two channel. The Oppo would be the transport for CDs and the NBS's outputs would feed from the Oppo and my turntable to the headphone amp and the VRDs to Belles. I want an easy peasy solution that will allow me to insert disc and have it (5.1 movies and loss less music) ripped to storage for playback. What I have which could be used: Oppo 105 Marantz AV8801 NBS preamp with dual single ended outputs Schiit Gungnir DAC Schiit Lyr-2 headphone amp feeding Audeze LCD-2s iPad for control Mac Mini 2009 model (spare sitting around) AppleTv Wired / wireless network External USB HDDs Router with single USB HDD input Who can help? What more info is needed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 not touching this one, but watching with interest.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USNRET Posted August 2, 2015 Author Share Posted August 2, 2015 (edited) not touching this one, but watching with interest.. Come on dude, you can do it. $2,000 budget Edited August 2, 2015 by USNRET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 nope. i intentionally reduced everything down to least common denominator because it was overwhelming trying to find a "do all" solution. I don't rip physical media.. I just acquire shows and BD rips through various sources, directly onto my NAS. I then run plex media server on the NAS and plex home theater clients throughout the house (rasplex and mac mini). and control the home theater clients via iOS/Android devices. that's it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USNRET Posted August 2, 2015 Author Share Posted August 2, 2015 So can not be achieved like I want. Then how about audio only without the video/5.1? What simple hardware solution allows the control / selection and viewing of music tracks with artwork via iPad? I have a year subscription to Roon but they have not released the IOS software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 jriver media center is the king of pc/ios music playback (does support movies too). plex works with music as well, though I haven't used that function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luv_sum_Horns Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I use my 105 as a digital hub for various file servers, er towers with a bunch of drives in them, using free desktop software (Linux Mint 17 all around). Client box in the rack connected to the TV from a low end Nvidia HDMI out. Nice audio card connected to Oppo via fiber. I can read directly from the networked Oppo to the servers. Or I can push stuff from where ever. Have my main system where I do all ripping and transcoding on an eight core AMD. Again, Linux Mint and all the extra software I need is right there in the repository. FLAC support in all the players, VLC for any video tasks. Steam even ported a couple of my favorite games which I play on my I7 Haswell with an Nvidia 660 running, you guessed it... Mint 17. Easy? Pretty much point and click easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay L Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 There really is no such one button solution out there. There is a lot of solutions, all of which accomplish similar tasks. I know a couple options for server/client. I use a windows 7 box with shared folders which contain music and movies. The clients are running openelec OS, which is bare minimum Kodi(xbmc). The other software I have used is JRiver Media Center. This can be used on both server and client, very smooth and awesome software. You must use all windows machines for a really good JRMC experience. For ripping I use MakeMKV for all Blu-ray/dvd. Love that software. For music I have used EAC for what seems like the past 20 years. Combo that with straight FLAC encoders on the fly and it rips pretty flawlessly every time. If you want to eliminate the oppo at any point u will need a decryptor software to ru 24/7 in the background when you throw in a brand new movie. I gave a generic overview. I can be more specific should you have questions. Sent from my VS986 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldred Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I agree with everything Jay L says.....I dont think it is going to be 1 box...can be done with 2 Check out Newegg.com Small form factor PC...called Shuttle...don't need more then i3 with 4 gigs ram...All said and done for shuttle $500.00 Drive storage check out something called Sans Digital raid storage box....four banger $160 ....five banger $260. This will allow you to expand to at least 12 TBs 1 or 2 4 TB hard drives to start...$150 each Windows 7 64 bit operating system $90 Software....there is the cheap (freeware/open source way) or the more expensive way 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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