Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Oct 19 18:57:49 CDT 2011
Who would have guessed that there had to be both video and audio for the hdmi to work. It sounds like software problems > drivers; to me. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brawley Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:28 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] netbook as a home music server Last week I asked, why not sell our CD player, use MediaMonkey or dbPowerAmp to rip our CDs to lossless FLACs onto a $300 netbook with a .25TB HD, connect the netbook to the HDMI port of our AV receiver, and play all audio digitally from the netbook. Turns out that can't work. HDMI carries video, sometimes with audio too, but not audio alone. Sending digital audio from a 'puter directly into an AV receiver requires a digital output (toslink) from the the 'puter into the AV receiver's digital coaxial or optical audio input jacks. It's the rare laptop or netbook that has a toslink jack, so you need a USB dongle with that connection. But USB adds jitter, which doesn't sound good. Dead end. Enter Logitech's SqueezeBox Touch <http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-930-000090-Squeezebox-Touch/dp/B002LARRDA/re f=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1319062743&sr=1-1>, which is getting rave reviews for losslessly streaming digital audio (mp3, wav, flac &c &c) from any wired or wifi network source straight into an AV receiver, at a purchase price of $230. Better still, there's an Android tablet user interface app. Looks like we'll go that way. PB _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com