I was thinking it would be slow whenever you were copying files over to
or from the USB drive over that 1.1 USB connection. I'm not sure if the
access rate over a 1.1 USB connection would be so slow as to effect your
ability to play audio off a drive attached to such a port. It would
probably work, but your player may have to do a tiny bit of buffering.
There's a few things you can do to see if you have more hard drive space
out there. When you go into My computer, do you see any other drives
listed besides the C drive? If so, they may be other partitions on your
hard drive.
You can also use Windows Disk Management to see how your hard drive is
partitioned. Go to your desktop, arrow over to My Computer, and hit the
shift+f10, right mouse button or applications key to bring up the
context menu. Arrow down to Manage and hit enter. Now you can arrow down
to Storage, Disk Management and then tab over to check out how your
drive is partitioned.
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Christopher
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On 1/8/2011 5:22 AM, Colin Phelan wrote:
Thanks Christopher, I am using XP.
The memory I would njeed to upgrade is that I would store MP3's on which I
guess is HD.
From what you said not worth that.
I am sure there is more than 20G HD on the machine.
What is an idiots way of finding out overal HD size please.
When you say an external drive would be slow do you mean when playing or
just when initially retrieving?
Thanks again
Colin
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From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org]
On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain
Sent: 07 January 2011 22:04
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
You will free up space by deleting programs you aren't using, but
depending on the programs, it probably won't be very much. How much data
are you talking about transferring? Are any other partitions besides C
listed? there may be a recovery partition that you could steal, if you
don't care about ever recovering the machine or if you already have
recovery CD's burned. BTW, what OS is running on this machine?
When you ask about additional memory, are you talking about RAM or hard
drive space? How much RAM is there now? Prices on memory and hard drives
only come down, so finding hardware for older systems can end up costing
you enough to make it worth buying a real cheap low end system. Since
it's a laptop, you'd have to replace the drive that's there, which would
mean a lot of work reinstalling Windows onto the new hard drive,
assuming you have a license and the install media for Windows. Depending
on how much RAM you have and how much the laptop will support, you may
be able to add more, but this probably won't buy you anything when it
comes to storing media files on the hard drive. Something like
Crucial.com at http://www.crucial.com/ can take you through the RAM
upgrade process.
You could use an external drive, but I think you'd find the speed
frustrating.
--
Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com
On 1/7/2011 3:35 PM, Colin Phelan wrote:
Thanks all for your great suggestions.
I have taken the easy option at this stage and dusted down an old lap
top and have taken all files well most off it. Then using a 4G SD card
have started coping my music across This is taking some time as the
Dell Latitude only has USB1 connections but that's ok.
I did not realise HD was so small as already telling me is full, that's
where I need further assistance please.
I'm a bit thick when it comes to this so here goes
Local disc (c) when clicking on properties is roughly telling me it is
20G.
Is this the whole size of the lap top including programmes or will I free
up
lots of space by deleting programmes not assocatied with music.
I from memory thought it was 40G but may well have been wrong.
If not what is best?
Buy additional memory for the machine, will this be possible?
External hard drive will this be a problem as only USB1?
Once again thanks all for your support
Regards
Colin
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From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org
[mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org]
On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain
Sent: 05 January 2011 17:07
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
I can think of a few options. One would be to use an FM transmitter.
You could attach an FM transmitter to your PC and then broadcast the
music from your PC and pick it up on your stereo, assuming you have a
FM receiver as part of your stereo. I don't have one myself, but I'm
sure others can chime in with more details, opinions and information.
You can also use a few different technologies to broadcast music from
your PC over wifi or bluetooth to a receiver that you could then
attach to your stereo. Apple TV and Airport Express would be two such
examples, and others can speak to them with much greater detail than I
can.
A third option is to go with an accessible portable media player with
enough storage and then attaching it to your stereo system. Even if
your stereo system doesn't have a lot of connectors, you should be
able to find connectors that run from your MP3 player into the
auxiliary input of your stereo receiver. Note that you'd still have
to have this level of connection if you were using a wifi or bluetooth
receiver. You could avoid this with the FM transmitter though. This is
the route I went. Not because it was superior to any of the other
methods, but rather it just fit my needs.
With this method, I have a portable MP3 player with most of my music.
I can use this when traveling, exercising, sitting in the waiting room
or whatever. I can also attach it to the stereo in my living room, the
powered external speakers in my bedroom or the audio input jack of my
wife's car. For MP3 players, you have a few different options. You can
go with an off the shelf MP3 player that will run Rockbox. This would
be the cheapest route. You could go with an iPod. Finally, you could
go with an MP3 player tailored specifically for the blind, such as the
Booksense. Each have their relative strenghts.
That's my $0.02.
--
Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com
On 1/4/2011 2:43 PM, Colin Phelan wrote:
Hi All,
I wonder if you can assist.
For use whilst on the move I rip all my music directly to MP3. I
still use a traditional hi fi for listening at home I would like for
a few reasons to pack away the c d 's and use something I can connect
to my hi fi to listen to music at home. I am using a basic separates
system that includes a Cyrus amplifyer with little or no fancy
connections. I do not need an ipod for listening on the move
otherwise I may go down
that
route.
Is there some sort of hard drive I could use that is accessible and I
can just copy all the MP3's to. Yes when it comes to hi fi I am about
15 years out of date but hey the
Cirus
amp used to be leading edge and it still works!
Thanks for your assistance
Colin
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