Peter Brawley
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 12 17:09:48 CDT 2011
On 10/12/2011 3:54 PM, Gary Kjos wrote: > In this scenario I wonder where the digital to audio conversion > happens? That is normally done IN the CD player or in a PC in the > SOUND CARD. It's the main reason why people upgrade sound card > hardware to get better conversion logic isn't it? If you play a song > from the netbook does the sound even come out of the HDMI connection > or is that intended to be primarily the VIDEO feed. I know that HDMI > can supply both audio and video and does in the typical home theater > scenario such as between the cable box and the receiver and the DVD > player and the receiver and from the receiver or the DVD player > directly to the TV. But I wonder if the sound in the netbook comes out > of the headphone jack and not the HDMI? Analogue sound converted by the sound card comes out the headphone jack, 0s and 1s come out the HDMI jack and the receiver converts, no? > > I'd test it before you go to far. Excellent advice, but to test it I need to buy a netbook with an HDMI interface :-) , so I guess I need to ask if anyone has walked down this path. > > And it will take a fair bit of time to rip your CD's. I rip 'em anyway for the mp3 player, very little babysitting required, MediaMonkey does a terrific job, might as well do it twice, once to mp3, once to flac. PB ----- > I did about 400 > or so a couple years back and it took me a few weeks of doing it on a > regular PC with two drives flip flopping back and forth. I didn't > bother with lossless though. I don't hear all THAT well. And actually > I still play the actual CD's for the most part instead of listening to > the ripped ones on the PC. I do listen to those on other PC's in the > house and on my portable music players. > > GK. > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Peter Brawley > <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> wrote: >> Our patchwork home entertainment system has a DVD player/recorder that we >> watch NetFlix DVDs on, and occasionally record satellite TV video with. It's >> fine for that, but it doubles as the system's CD player, and with that there >> are two problems: CD playback isn't terrific, and who wants to fiddle with >> single CDs any more? >> >> Why not just rip CDs to FLACs onto a music server, and point& click when we >> want to hear 'em? Seems to me a wee $300 NetBook with a .25TB drive and HDMI >> could hold about a thousand CDs in lossless FLAC form and deliver the >> material digitally straight to the HDMI input in our receiver with better >> quality than most CD players costing three times that much. Anybody have an >> idea what might be wrong with this setup? >> >> PB >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > >