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Posted by yustr on September 25, 2005, 9:09 am
Please log in for more thread options I'm thinking of trying to convert my collection of maybe 1000 CD's to some type of music server. What I have in mind is a component sized component that acts like my laptop when I load a CD and it's stored on my harddrive. But, I don't want it to convert it to mp3 or wma (maybe some conversion but one that retains the full fidelity). Essentially a harddrive recorder. I can feed it from my cd player so i doesn't even need a reader. My son has a 30GB handheld device that he uses to store his music (it does convert to mp3). Something like that but in true hifi and that would fit on my rack. Does anyone know of such a thing? -- yustr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ yustr's Profile: http://www.homeplot.com/member.php?userid=37 View this thread: http://www.homeplot.com/showthread.php?t=58793 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Michelle Steiner on September 25, 2005, 8:32 am
Please log in for more thread options Check out Apple's iTunes; it has a lossless converter. -- Stop Mad Cowboy Disease: Impeach the son of a Bush. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by wkearney99 on September 30, 2005, 8:42 am
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> Does anyone know of such a thing?
Sure, load up J. River's Media Center 11 on a PC and it'll do what you're after. http://www.jrmediacenter.com/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by yustr on September 30, 2005, 9:39 am
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Thanks for the suggestion 99. But what I'm looking for is a stereo component rather than a PC. I've seen massive whole house movie servers but they're in the multi-thousands $$$ and I'm not interested in movies. It should have a similar interface as the mediacenter but not have the baggage of a PC. Any other ideas? -- yustr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ yustr's Profile: http://www.homeplot.com/member.php?userid=37 View this thread: http://www.homeplot.com/showthread.php?t=58793 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by wkearney99 on October 28, 2005, 9:22 am
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> Thanks for the suggestion 99. But what I'm looking for is a stereo
> component rather than a PC. I've seen massive whole house movie servers > but they're in the multi-thousands $$$ and I'm not interested in movies. > It should have a similar interface as the mediacenter but not have the > baggage of a PC. Good, fast, cheap... pick two. There's not really a low-end way to do this. In fact, using a PC for it IS usually the least expensive. Otherwise you're looking at using something like a Russound CAV66 setup with their SMS3 music server. I've got the CAV66 for it's whole-house distribution features and use a PC running MC11 for two mp3 stream sources. There are any number of PC setups that are geared toward being silent. Search for 'home theatre PC' or htpc for various examples. There are alternatives like a squeezebox or a Roku that do things like let you keep your mp3 files on PC and play them through the device over an ethernet network. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> some type of music server. What I have in mind is a component sized
> component that acts like my laptop when I load a CD and it's stored
> on my harddrive. But, I don't want it to convert it to mp3 or wma
> (maybe some conversion but one that retains the full fidelity).