RE: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
You may have a problem if the external drive goes into standbye mode as some of them do. The spin-up process, then the reading process may as has been mentioned, rely for smoothe audio results depend on some player buffering. You can probably set a reasonable size cache on the external drive as well. Others on this list will know better than I do about such things however. Good luck. JP l At 21:07 08/01/2011, you wrote: Thanks Christipher, It has just occurred to me that do you think modern day stand alone hard drives will operate, ie be recognised by a USB 1 connnection Regards Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 08 January 2011 21:01 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi 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. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com 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 -Original Message- 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
RE: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
Colin, I'm not a windows media guru, but I suggest that you get a handle on winamp. There's lots of support on this list, and keyboard shortcuts in abundance. Here are some windows media keyboard shortcuts, Don't know if they work with all versions of the player. Good luck. JP To do this Use this keyboard shortcut Zoom to 50% ALT+1 Zoom at 100% ALT+2 Zoom to 200% ALT+3 Toggle display for full-screen video ALT+ENTER Retrace your steps back through your most recent views in the Player ALT+LEFT ARROW Retrace your steps forward through your most recent views in the Player ALT+RIGHT ARROW Switch to full-screen mode CTRL+1 Switch to skin mode CTRL+2 Switch to the first view in a media category after Recently Added (such as Artist in Music) CTRL+7 Switch to the second view in a media category after Recently Added (such as Album in Music) CTRL+8 Switch to the third view in a media category after Recently Added (such as Songs in Music) CTRL+9 Previous (item or chapter) CTRL+B Put the focus on the search box in the library CTRL+E Next (item or chapter) CTRL+F Turn shuffle on or off CTRL+H Eject CD or DVD (note that this does not work on computers equipped with two or more CD or DVD disc drives) CTRL+J In full mode, show or hide the Classic Menus (menu bar) CTRL+M Create a new playlist CTRL+N Open a file CTRL+O Play or pause playing CTRL+P Add selected item to sync list CTRL+Q Stop playing CTRL+S In audio playback, turn repeat on or off CTRL+T Specify a URL or path to a file CTRL+U Close or stop playing a file CTRL+W Rewind video CTRL+SHIFT+B Turn captions and subtitles on or off CTRL+SHIFT+C Fast forward through video or music CTRL+SHIFT+F Use a fast play speed CTRL+SHIFT+G Play at normal speed CTRL+SHIFT+N Use a slow play speed CTRL+SHIFT+S Return to full mode from full screen ESC Display Windows Media Player Help F1 Edit media information on a selected item in the library F2 Add media files to the library F3 Switches the view of items in the Details pane using the options available with the View Options button F4 Refresh information in the panes F5 Increase the size of album art F6 Decrease the size of album art SHIFT+F6 Mute the volume F7 Decrease the volume F8 Increase the volume F9 Show the Classic Menus (menu bar) F10 Switch to full-screen mode F11 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
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 -Original Message- 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 -Original Message- 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
RE: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
I thought I could play a folder from windows media ie an album but now realise I can only play a track. Anyone know a way around this please The lap top has no internet connection so unless download a programme on another machine put on disc and transfer I am stuck with WMP and I don't even know where the library is held on this programme to work from that. Thanks Colin -Original Message- 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 -Original Message- 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
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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. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com 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 -Original Message- 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 -Original Message- 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
RE: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
Thanks Christipher, It has just occurred to me that do you think modern day stand alone hard drives will operate, ie be recognised by a USB 1 connnection Regards Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 08 January 2011 21:01 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi 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. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com 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 -Original Message- 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 -Original Message- 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
Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
Yeh, I think they will. Access times will just be really slow. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/8/2011 3:07 PM, Colin Phelan wrote: Thanks Christipher, It has just occurred to me that do you think modern day stand alone hard drives will operate, ie be recognised by a USB 1 connnection Regards Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 08 January 2011 21:01 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi 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. Christopher chalt...@gmail.commailto:chalt...@gmail.com 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 -Original Message- 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 -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf
RE: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
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 -Original Message- 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 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3361 - Release Date: 01/05/11 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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Well here's another, I don't have it working yet but I'm learning how. Apparently the Apple TV is supposed to be able to access music through your network from a hard drive so that's the line I'll be following. On 08/01/2011, at 8:35 AM, 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 -Original Message- 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 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3361 - Release Date: 01/05/11 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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 -Original Message- 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
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 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
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 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
Why a separate hard drive? Rip all your music to your computer's hard drive; get a high-quality sound card; patch its output into an auxiliary input on your amplifier; and use Winamp or another media player to play your music. That's what I do. - Original Message - From: Colin Phelan colin_phe...@yahoo.co.uk To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 3:43 PM Subject: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi 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 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org __ NOD32 5759 (20110104) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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Come to think of it a complete sound card would be overkill I think. A good Digital to Analog converter like the xitel pro if it is still available would do the trick. And of course if you like hi fidelity audio I would suggest you do not encode under 320 kbps if using mp3 or if at all possible some kind of lossless format. Andre -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dana S. Leslie Sent: 05 January 2011 12:58 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi Why a separate hard drive? Rip all your music to your computer's hard drive; get a high-quality sound card; patch its output into an auxiliary input on your amplifier; and use Winamp or another media player to play your music. That's what I do. - Original Message - From: Colin Phelan colin_phe...@yahoo.co.uk To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 3:43 PM Subject: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi 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 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org __ NOD32 5759 (20110104) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
