Just getting started here on the forum, I've gotta say its been so helpful cutting through all the misinformation out there today about digital audio gear. Finally getting round to switching over to a dedicated music server for my digital music, my system is is primarily for vinyl.
Planning on using a pi 4 as a server, got the smsl sanskrit and love the sound as well as a surface pro tablet to use as a controller, storage is on a ssd. I'm a total meathead when it comes to computers, though I do love a bit of soldering and rebuilding tube amps and turntables. What is the best player to use for playing music from a library, no streaming, no fussing around, simple and bug free? I'm not looking for a new hobby to spend endless hours trying to get my library to work, just want to find a good way to play my music and be done messing with this stuff.
I'm new to pc's been trying out different players on the tablet, tried media monkey but I couldn't get it to recognize new music in my library. There's just too much out there for me to wade through trying out every player. So, with players I've had alot of issues with cataloging problems from ripped, downloaded, etc. music, primarily programs that rewrite the Metadata after I have gone through and individually renamed albums and songs, itunes was killing me. I'd like to avoid that in the future, and I'd like a simple interface, preferably big icons like the album browsing view in iTunes, small type isn't great when you have thousands of albums. I'm not interested in streaming or subscriptions at all and won't stream in the future. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! I'm really hoping to save time time trying out every option through the experience of the knowledgeable people on this forum. Not interested in roon. Not interested in endlessly troubleshooting a mediaplayer.
Secondly the setup. Like I said I'm a lunk with the computers, any basic guides to set up a pi as a server out there people can recommend? What's the best software to use for controlling the pi with the Microsoft tablet? I'm assuming I install everything with the pi os off a memory card. Anything else I need to know? Designing a psu is beyond me but anyone have links for a schematic? Or is that really a waste of time? I was planning on using an oversized heat sink on the pi with no fan to eliminate noise,will that be a problem? Any old power work as well as the factory one? How many gigs for no lag with the interface? Dreaming of being able to just browse my library, press play on an album then hear it coming out of the speakers, seams like a fantasy right now.
In the future I'd like to rip albums from lp's or external drive, recommendations for this.
Thanks in advance for any and all help, this community is an island of sanity in a sea of, well, you get it.
Planning on using a pi 4 as a server, got the smsl sanskrit and love the sound as well as a surface pro tablet to use as a controller, storage is on a ssd. I'm a total meathead when it comes to computers, though I do love a bit of soldering and rebuilding tube amps and turntables. What is the best player to use for playing music from a library, no streaming, no fussing around, simple and bug free? I'm not looking for a new hobby to spend endless hours trying to get my library to work, just want to find a good way to play my music and be done messing with this stuff.
I'm new to pc's been trying out different players on the tablet, tried media monkey but I couldn't get it to recognize new music in my library. There's just too much out there for me to wade through trying out every player. So, with players I've had alot of issues with cataloging problems from ripped, downloaded, etc. music, primarily programs that rewrite the Metadata after I have gone through and individually renamed albums and songs, itunes was killing me. I'd like to avoid that in the future, and I'd like a simple interface, preferably big icons like the album browsing view in iTunes, small type isn't great when you have thousands of albums. I'm not interested in streaming or subscriptions at all and won't stream in the future. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! I'm really hoping to save time time trying out every option through the experience of the knowledgeable people on this forum. Not interested in roon. Not interested in endlessly troubleshooting a mediaplayer.
Secondly the setup. Like I said I'm a lunk with the computers, any basic guides to set up a pi as a server out there people can recommend? What's the best software to use for controlling the pi with the Microsoft tablet? I'm assuming I install everything with the pi os off a memory card. Anything else I need to know? Designing a psu is beyond me but anyone have links for a schematic? Or is that really a waste of time? I was planning on using an oversized heat sink on the pi with no fan to eliminate noise,will that be a problem? Any old power work as well as the factory one? How many gigs for no lag with the interface? Dreaming of being able to just browse my library, press play on an album then hear it coming out of the speakers, seams like a fantasy right now.
In the future I'd like to rip albums from lp's or external drive, recommendations for this.
Thanks in advance for any and all help, this community is an island of sanity in a sea of, well, you get it.