9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
11:33 a.m.
Hi all,
it's the first time I write in this mailing list and I hope I'm not OT.
I'm looking for a hifi stereo system with USB support. I mean: I want to
be able to plug an external USB hard disk, browse the folders and choose
the files I want to listen to.
I've found some products (by Cambridge Audio) that support all the
formats I use, i.e. Ogg and Flac.
But it seems that the only supported filesystem is FAT32.
I wonder if you know some product which support some more advanced
filesystem. Hopefully ext2/3/4, but even NTFS would be maybe better than
FAT32.
FAT32 is slow and doesn't support some characters in the file name. I
know I'll have some problems copying my huge collection of files in a
FAT32 filesystem.
Any hint is appreciated.
Thanks!
Federico
9 Oct
9 Oct
12:56 p.m.
I'd think it very unlikely you'll find anything that supports anything other
than FAT32 personally although I'd love to be proved wrong!
You're not going to have any music files bigger than 4GB, you don't really
need the extra speed or features offered by more modern filesystems and
there are plenty of scripts and apps out there than will simplify the
process of making your filenames FAT32 friendly so I'd go for whatever can
play the most file formats (I'd be after wavpack support personally although
again I think you'd be lucky unless its basically an embedded Linux device
you can ssh into) and offers the best sound quality for the money.
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Federico Bruni <fedelogy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
it's the first time I write in this mailing list and I hope I'm not OT.
I'm looking for a hifi stereo system with USB support. I mean: I want to be
able to plug an external USB hard disk, browse the folders and choose the
files I want to listen to.
I've found some products (by Cambridge Audio) that support all the formats
I use, i.e. Ogg and Flac.
But it seems that the only supported filesystem is FAT32.
I wonder if you know some product which support some more advanced
filesystem. Hopefully ext2/3/4, but even NTFS would be maybe better than
FAT32.
FAT32 is slow and doesn't support some characters in the file name. I know
I'll have some problems copying my huge collection of files in a FAT32
filesystem.
Any hint is appreciated.
Thanks!
Federico
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3:15 p.m.
Hi Frederico,
On 10/09/2011 11:38 AM, Federico Bruni wrote:
Hi all,
it's the first time I write in this mailing list and I hope I'm not OT.
I'm looking for a hifi stereo system with USB support. I mean: I want to
be able to plug an external USB hard disk, browse the folders and choose
the files I want to listen to.
I've found some products (by Cambridge Audio) that support all the
formats I use, i.e. Ogg and Flac.
But it seems that the only supported filesystem is FAT32.
I wonder if you know some product which support some more advanced
filesystem. Hopefully ext2/3/4, but even NTFS would be maybe better than
FAT32.
FAT32 is slow and doesn't support some characters in the file name. I
know I'll have some problems copying my huge collection of files in a
FAT32 filesystem.
Any hint is appreciated.
Thanks!
Federico
I suppose you're looking for an off-the-shelf product, however what you
wish to accomplish is easily done by just taking an old laptop (or
similar) with a good audio-interface and simply install GNU/Linux.
There's quite a few OOTB "media-center" distributions:
http://www.mythbuntu.org/
http://www.geexbox.org/
...
Doings so should not take longer than finding a product that does what
you want :-)
An other approach is to simply get away with FAT32 and use tags to store
the information [instead of/in addition to] the file-name..
If your music is properly sorted in folder/filename, you can script
tagging or use easytag for mass-reassignments of your collection.
2c,
robin
10 Oct
10 Oct
9 a.m.
Il 09/10/2011 15:15, Robin Gareus ha scritto:
An other approach is to simply get away with FAT32 and
use tags to store
the information [instead of/in addition to] the file-name..
If your music is properly sorted in folder/filename, you can script
tagging or use easytag for mass-reassignments of your collection.
Yes, I think
I'll go this way.
Thanks
11:59 a.m.
Robin Gareus wrote:
Hi Frederico,
On 10/09/2011 11:38 AM, Federico Bruni wrote:
Most any netbook would do it, too, use less power, and take up less space.
--
David
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
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Hi all,
it's the first time I write in this mailing list and I hope I'm not OT.
I'm looking for a hifi stereo system with USB support. I mean: I want to
be able to plug an external USB hard disk, browse the folders and choose
the files I want to listen to.
I've found some products (by Cambridge Audio) that support all the
formats I use, i.e. Ogg and Flac.
But it seems that the only supported filesystem is FAT32.
I wonder if you know some product which support some more advanced
filesystem. Hopefully ext2/3/4, but even NTFS would be maybe better than
FAT32.
FAT32 is slow and doesn't support some characters in the file name. I
know I'll have some problems copying my huge collection of files in a
FAT32 filesystem.
Any hint is appreciated.
Thanks!
Federico
I suppose you're looking for an off-the-shelf product, however what you
wish to accomplish is easily done by just taking an old laptop (or
similar) with a good audio-interface and simply install GNU/Linux. 
15 Oct
15 Oct
2:50 p.m.
2011/10/9 Robin Gareus <robin(a)gareus.org>rg>:
Hi Frederico,
On 10/09/2011 11:38 AM, Federico Bruni wrote:
Just to add my opinion: we run mythbuntu as our main TV etc. Its music
player is OK, but nowhere near as good as almost any other media
player (banshee, mpd, amarok, songbird...). I end up using banshee
rather than myth's own player.
If you're mainly thinking of music playback, don't start with mythtv!
It's very cool for TV though.
Dan
Hi all,
it's the first time I write in this mailing list and I hope I'm not OT.
I'm looking for a hifi stereo system with USB support. I mean: I want to
be able to plug an external USB hard disk, browse the folders and choose
the files I want to listen to.
I've found some products (by Cambridge Audio) that support all the
formats I use, i.e. Ogg and Flac.
But it seems that the only supported filesystem is FAT32.
I wonder if you know some product which support some more advanced
filesystem. Hopefully ext2/3/4, but even NTFS would be maybe better than
FAT32.
FAT32 is slow and doesn't support some characters in the file name. I
know I'll have some problems copying my huge collection of files in a
FAT32 filesystem.
Any hint is appreciated.
Thanks!
Federico
I suppose you're looking for an off-the-shelf product, however what you
wish to accomplish is easily done by just taking an old laptop (or
similar) with a good audio-interface and simply install GNU/Linux.
There's quite a few OOTB "media-center" distributions:
http://www.mythbuntu.org/
http://www.geexbox.org/
...
Doings so should not take longer than finding a product that does what
you want :-) 
9 Oct
9 Oct
6:16 p.m.
On 9 October 2011 at 11:38, Federico Bruni <fedelogy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
it's the first time I write in this mailing list
and I hope I'm not OT.
I'm looking for a hifi stereo system with USB support. I mean: I want to
be able to plug an external USB hard disk, browse the folders and choose
the files I want to listen to.
I accomplish something similar just using my Linux computer with a
hifi audio card. Then I can use whatever Linux audio file player
that I wish.
Last I heard modern iPods and such understand FLAC files. If that's
true, then all the iPod docking systems could be explored.
Good luck....
--
Kevin
10 Oct
10 Oct
9 a.m.
Il 09/10/2011 18:16, Kevin Cosgrove ha scritto:
I accomplish something similar just using my Linux
computer with a
hifi audio card. Then I can use whatever Linux audio file player
that I wish.
I already have a netbook, which I can use sometimes to select the songs
from a nice interface (like Rhythmbox) and send it to the stereo.
But I'd like also to be able to listen to my digital music without
having to switch on a computer.
Last I heard modern iPods and such understand FLAC
files. If that's
true, then all the iPod docking systems could be explored.
Good to know...
However, the best choice for me would be buying an old iPod which is
supported by Rockbox.
Cheers,
Federico
10:15 a.m.
On 10/09/2011 11:38 AM, Federico Bruni wrote:
I'm looking for a hifi stereo system with USB
support. I mean: I want to
be able to plug an external USB hard disk, browse the folders and choose
the files I want to listen to.
Hi Federico,
Popcorn A-210 for example:
- Specs:
http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/index.php?pluginoption=catalog&m…
- Ext support:
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/index.php/A-200/A-210_Compatibility_…
I'm planning on buying one myself, my good ol' KiSS DP-1500 has served
me well enough and is definitely entitled for retirement.
Best,
Jeremy
12:29 p.m.
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Federico Bruni <fedelogy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
it's the first time I write in this mailing list
and I hope I'm not OT.
I'm looking for a hifi stereo system with USB support. I mean: I want to be
able to plug an external USB hard disk, browse the folders and choose the
files I want to listen to.
http://dune-hd.com/news/126-ntfs_write_support.html
Technically I haven't tried this yet as I haven't done anything except
stream from my NAS via SMB thus far with my player, so I can't speak
for it personally, but it seems like it would do what you want.
Seablade
11 Oct
11 Oct
11:56 p.m.
Il 10/10/2011 12:29, Thomas Vecchione ha scritto:
http://dune-hd.com/news/126-ntfs_write_support.html
Technically I haven't tried this yet as I haven't done anything except
stream from my NAS via SMB thus far with my player, so I can't speak
for it personally, but it seems like it would do what you want.
yes, that's
very interesting
thanks for the link
unfortunately, it doesn't have a CD/DVD player
12 Oct
12 Oct
10:10 a.m.
On 10/12/2011 12:01 AM, Federico Bruni wrote:
unfortunately, it doesn't have a CD/DVD player
Dune also has media players with a BD-Rom/Blu-Ray player, like the BD
Prime 3.0: http://dune-hd.com/hd_players/current/111-dune-bd-prime-3.0.html
It's Popcorn Hour counterpart is the Popcorn Hour C-200:
http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/index.php?pluginoption=catalog&m…
But then you have to buy the BD-Rom player separately.
Best,
Jeremy
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