Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 17:29:41 CDT 2011
A tad off topic, but recently I have discovered a wonderful free progam that captures all the info relevant to any given CD. Since it's free, I have no commercial interest in this venture. I just want to commend this person for his excellent efforts. Seldom have I seen such a pretty piece of software. It takes about 30 seconds to learn its interface and it does something very beautiful with your data. www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog/ However, this software only works for dvd/movies. Granted that I am a dinosaur, and still thrill to the feel of pages, I'm searching for the equivalent cataloger for my books. It needs to work just like the software cited above, but uses Books as its source. I cannot recommend this software enough without weeping. If you have, as I do, several hundred instances of DVDs, and wish to catalog them, this software is your baby. This software does a magnificent job, and lest you suspect that I am in for some commercial piece, the software is free, so how could I possibly benefit from an endorsement? Grab this software, and if there's an opportunity, tell him that I suggested that you visit. This stuff is good, and also free. A. On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>wrote: > 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<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech> >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >>> >>> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/dba-tech<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >