It just needs to be able to access the storage that the Plex server is using, assuming you are using Plex. RipRight for Linux, which you could set up on pretty much any old computer made in the last, uh, 15 years or so would work, and can be run as a daemon and automatically rip whenever you put something in the drive. You could certainly set up a computer to automatically rip a CD whenever you put one in the drive, though. I guess if you don't have a desktop computer, then the "device" is "a desktop computer", or perhaps a laptop with a USB drive. I don't think you need a specific device to rip CDs-any computer with a CD drive will work fine. Posted by 58 at 8:23 AM on September 19, 2018 Thank you so much for sharing your setup and your ideas. Thanks everyone-I am learning as quickly as I can. I then paid a company to rip them for me in two recommended formats - lossless and mp3. After ripping all of my music myself a very long time ago my hard drive failed and I lost it all. But I was thinking more like an external drive that I hook up to my laptop. I don't need to rip hundreds of cds, just maybe the 50-100 or so that I have neglected since becoming frustrated with my set up. But once I add up all the Sonos parts I might be too expensive. Sonos is expensive but may work better as we will need speakers upstairs and downstairs in the future and sonos seems like an easy way to expand our set up. So you have a vortexbox and use the sonos app/interface to tell it what to play? Response by poster: ottereroticist: That vortexbox looks incredible! Do you back up your vortexbox to another drive? My experience with hard drives is that they die and getting a new vortexbox every 5-6 years sounds bad. Posted by jzb at 2:24 PM on September 18, 2018 I've got about 500-600GB of music and another 200-ish GB of movies & TV shows, and it's relatively snappy. It handles pretty much any music format I've thrown at it. Here's a view of what your library might look like. You can even give other people access to your Plex server for streaming/sharing.Īs a bonus, you can also use Plex to manage movies and TV shows.Īlso also - Plex lets you manage multiple libraries, so I can organize my music into my main library, a Classical library for classical and jazz, a Sampler library for all the label sample collections I've acquired over the years, and so forth. Install the Plex app on Roku, you can stream through your TV/home entertainment system. Plex has clients for all the OSes I listed above and you can sync to them via the client as well - so create a playlist in Plex, sync to your phone, you've got music to go. It's complicated.)īasically I rip CDs to FLAC, or acquire FLAC music via Bandcamp or Internet Archive, and then copy it over to the external drive I have hooked up to my Linux-based laptop running Plex. I have an older laptop running Plex that I can access through the house and over the Internets via Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. posted by 58 to Home & Garden (16 answers total) 25 users marked this as a favoriteĪnother vote for Plex. I won't thread sit but will try to clarify as needed. Thank you for reading all of this-hugs to all. So please no recommendations for subscription services. I resent having to pay for a subscription to listen to music I have already purchased.
I was told it has 'everything' I have and I quickly found that not to be true. We have subscribed to apple music and spotify. Itunes: I can't even start on all the ways I hate it. Ideally this wouldn't cost much, but I want to hear any ideas no matter the cost.
Easier way to get discs added to library as I get them. I don't care how ugly it is as long as it works.
It can be from laptop or phone or ideally both. I expect to add music to my library until I am dead. I also have been getting more discs that haven't been put on the drive yet. Hard Drive: GoFlex by Seagate USB 2.0, 1TB with 161g of music on it Google Home that has no home and floats around house Macbook Pro with IOS 10.11.6 and 8gigs of memoryĪpple Time Machine-I think this is spoken for with backing up computer.Įcho Dot that is connected to the Kitchen Tivoli If you hadn't guessed, I am pretty dumb when it comes to this stuff so assume I don't know anything about anything. Specs below but if I can clarify anything I will. I need to start over and get a new system and have no idea what to do. I have tried managing it with itunes, and more recently have subscribed to apple music and spotify. I have had my music electronically stored for a long time and it's never been great.
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