Hi.
I installed a FC3 system to work as my Home Music Server. It is replacing an old 100 CD Mega Changer that is quite full by now.
The system uses the TV as monitor and I added a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse to control it from afar.
After some initial problems and Google lookups I had everything up and running reasonably well.
My question is, What software is best to work as a multimedia center. I am not doing DVR stuff yet although I might in the future, but it is not a priority yet.
I want to digitize my 100+ CDs into the hard disk, play them back, and make it very easy to search the hard disk for music. I want it to be very easy to compile new playlists and save them.
If it were up to me, Sound Juicer and Xine would fit the bill, but I am not the only user of the system. There are other, older, people at home who are not as computer-savy as me and I would like this to be their introduction to computing, maybe they will get more interested once they master one activity (creating playlists, playing their favorite music) with the computer to do more. :)
Thanks for you recommendations.
Javier Perez ________________________________________________ Message sent using Inter.net 2.7.2
HI
If it were up to me, Sound Juicer and Xine would fit the bill, but I am not the only user of the system. There are other, older, people at home who are not as computer-savy as me and I would like this to be their introduction to computing, maybe they will get more interested once they master one activity (creating playlists, playing their favorite music) with the computer to do more. :)
if you are looking for streaming then checkout flumotion.net
Pepebuho wrote:
Hi.
I installed a FC3 system to work as my Home Music Server. It is replacing an old 100 CD Mega Changer that is quite full by now.
The system uses the TV as monitor and I added a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse to control it from afar.
After some initial problems and Google lookups I had everything up and running reasonably well.
My question is, What software is best to work as a multimedia center. I am not doing DVR stuff yet although I might in the future, but it is not a priority yet.
I want to digitize my 100+ CDs into the hard disk, play them back, and make it very easy to search the hard disk for music. I want it to be very easy to compile new playlists and save them.
If it were up to me, Sound Juicer and Xine would fit the bill, but I am not the only user of the system. There are other, older, people at home who are not as computer-savy as me and I would like this to be their introduction to computing, maybe they will get more interested once they master one activity (creating playlists, playing their favorite music) with the computer to do more. :)
Thanks for you recommendations.
Javier Perez ________________________________________________ Message sent using Inter.net 2.7.2
http://www.videolan.org/ Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:11:46 -0700, Robin Laing Robin.Laing@drdc-rddc.gc.ca wrote:
Pepebuho wrote:
Hi.
I installed a FC3 system to work as my Home Music Server. It is replacing an old 100 CD Mega Changer that is quite full by now.
The system uses the TV as monitor and I added a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse to control it from afar.
After some initial problems and Google lookups I had everything up and running reasonably well.
My question is, What software is best to work as a multimedia center. I am not doing DVR stuff yet although I might in the future, but it is not a priority yet.
I want to digitize my 100+ CDs into the hard disk, play them back, and make it very easy to search the hard disk for music. I want it to be very easy to compile new playlists and save them.
If it were up to me, Sound Juicer and Xine would fit the bill, but I am not the only user of the system. There are other, older, people at home who are not as computer-savy as me and I would like this to be their introduction to computing, maybe they will get more interested once they master one activity (creating playlists, playing their favorite music) with the computer to do more. :)
Thanks for you recommendations.
Javier Perez ________________________________________________ Message sent using Inter.net 2.7.2
http://www.videolan.org/ Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!
-- Robin Laing
Sorry, I want to play (not serve ) Audio. VideoLan seems to be for streaming video only.
Javier
javier perez wrote:
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:11:46 -0700, Robin Laing Robin.Laing@drdc-rddc.gc.ca wrote:
Pepebuho wrote:
Hi.
-- Robin Laing
Sorry, I want to play (not serve ) Audio. VideoLan seems to be for streaming video only.
Javier
You can use the player as a standalone player. I haven't used it that much.
For just a music player I use xmms. Xmms playlists don't work that well when shared. Each user may like a different program so a selection of players may be better. Use yum and install and test different players. If you get yumi or gyumi it will make the process easier.
I am planning a multimedia server with RAID array for storage of DVD's and CD's. I don't want to have to re-rip or copy the files if there is a drive failure.
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:43:17 -0500, Pepebuho pepebuho@pananet.com wrote:
Hi.
I installed a FC3 system to work as my Home Music Server. It is replacing an old 100 CD Mega Changer that is quite full by now.
The system uses the TV as monitor and I added a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse to control it from afar.
After some initial problems and Google lookups I had everything up and running reasonably well.
My question is, What software is best to work as a multimedia center. I am not doing DVR stuff yet although I might in the future, but it is not a priority yet.
I want to digitize my 100+ CDs into the hard disk, play them back, and make it very easy to search the hard disk for music. I want it to be very easy to compile new playlists and save them.
If it were up to me, Sound Juicer and Xine would fit the bill, but I am not the only user of the system. There are other, older, people at home who are not as computer-savy as me and I would like this to be their introduction to computing, maybe they will get more interested once they master one activity (creating playlists, playing their favorite music) with the computer to do more. :)
Thanks for you recommendations.
Javier Perez
MythTV (http://mythtv.org) is really nice for music, as well as the DVR functions it's known for. And a good base of community-minded users on the forums, etc. I used it for a while before my wife got fed up with my tinkering and bought a $100 TiVo.
MythTV has a really nice, user-friendly interface that should please almost anyone. If you are even considering DVR functions in future, have a look at it. The hardest parts are setting up the TV-out and getting the remote to work, which it sounds like you've already done.
--Matt
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On Wednesday 22 December 2004 22:43, Pepebuho wrote:
I want to digitize my 100+ CDs into the hard disk, play them back, and make it very easy to search the hard disk for music. I want it to be very easy to compile new playlists and save them.
I use the Music Player Daemon (http://www.musicpd.org/) for this; it's an excellent simple solution that doesn't require a seperate back-end database, and with the phpMp web front end (http://www.musicpd.org/?page=phpMp) it's as easy to use as any other website, including for updating the database and creating custom playlists.
It works really well here with far more than your 100 CDs - I have almost 400 discs encoded as lossless flac files and it handles them beautifully.
HTH
Jude
I want to digitize my 100+ CDs into the hard disk, play them back, and make it very easy to search the hard disk for music. I want it to be very easy to compile new playlists and save them.
Isn't this supposed to stream music? I tried the windows client and the music plays on the server. Kind of pointless IMHO.
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On Thursday 30 December 2004 04:41, Rob wrote:
I want to digitize my 100+ CDs into the hard disk, play them back, and make it very easy to search the hard disk for music. I want it to be very easy to compile new playlists and save them.
Isn't this supposed to stream music? I tried the windows client and the music plays on the server. Kind of pointless IMHO.
I'm assuming you're talking about mpd as you are replying to my post, although you don't say so. Anyway, the OP doesn't want streaming, and neither do I. Use what suits you.
Regards
Jude
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