MP3 players: Between old tapes and new mp3 files
Between old tapes and new mp3 files
by Architorture77 - 4/4/06 10:45 AMHi. I need your advice. I suppose my problem is very extended nowadays. Half of my tracks collection is digital (mp3 and other formats), stored in a LaCie external hard disk. The other half is on audio CD and old LP and tapes. I would not like to use anymore my noisy computer to play music, so i’m looking for an amplifier which could read my mp3 files directly from this external hd and, at the same time, be connected to an cd player, a lp player and a tape player. Do you know any audio apparatus which works properly for me?
Thank you in advance.
Hmm...
by R. Proffitt
- 4/4/06 10:50 AM
In reply to: Between old tapes and new mp3 files by Architorture77
My laptop does not make much, if any appreciable noise. Have you tried that?
Bob
DVD player that reads DVD?
by Catcheronedge - 4/4/06 12:16 PM In reply to: Between old tapes and new mp3 files by Architorture77That's a very simple solution, but you'll miss out on the organization you get on a computer.
Anyway, burn MP3 files on to DVD, and check if your stand alone DVD player will play them. Some do, some don't.
You can connect your computer to your stereo
by dano83860 - 4/5/06 8:14 PM In reply to: Between old tapes and new mp3 files by Architorture77You will need a cord with a 1/8 inch stereo plug on one end and a plug or plugs that match the inputs Most likely RCA type) on your stereo on the other.
Put the 1/8 inch in the output of your computer sound card and the other to your inputs of your stereo.
Less then $20.00 at Radio Shack and a half hour of tinkering and you are set. It will work in reverse too if you should want to capture some of your LPs on to CDs.
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10163_7-6226087-1.html?tag=txt
thank you for your answers
by Architorture77 - 4/6/06 4:45 AM In reply to: You can connect your computer to your stereo by dano83860Thank you very much for your attention, dano. Anyway, your solution doesn't allow me to hear my music without using the computer.
I thought i could find some amplifier which reads mp3 files directly from an external hd via usb. Now, in the market there are thousands hifi systems which read mp3 files via cd. Why not via usb? I suppose i finally will buy an ipod 60 gb or something like that, even if that bothers me, to connect it to an ordinary amplifier.
I hate the industry. I don't know if i can say it like that in english, but i hate industry.
Thank you too to the other two people who answered me. It was kind. I don't have a dvd player, nor a laptop. If something so simple as an amplifier with usb input doesn't exist, i'll have to buy a non-noisy laptop + ipod 60gb + ordinary amplifier...
Vaya mierda. Odio la industria.
There are two problems with what you want to do.
by dano83860 - 4/6/06 9:27 PM In reply to: thank you for your answers by Architorture77One, You need an operating system to make your external hard drive work.
Two, You need a media player to play the MP3s on your external hard drive.
You won't get either of these with out a system that is for all intents and purposes a "computer".
Best of luck.
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