![]() Plus, the HTPC’s media software stack was based on Kodi which, though lovely and has remote control capabilities over local network via both their web interface Chorus2 and official app Kore, is far more interested in video than audio. Unfortunately the HTPC’s dock is acting up when it comes to audio, and even the headphone jack was giving me grief. Or like a laptop, but with a much larger screen that has a remote control.) Like a Smart TV in two pieces, both of which I control. ![]() (For the youngins: A Home Theatre PC is a computer which you connect to a TV so you can do computer things on your TV. It’s delightful.) How was I going to hook those MP3s up so they could play through the house as easily as the Audio CDs?įor a while I tried to get it to work via the Home Theatre PC. (I’m ignoring the cassette tape collection, which play only in the basement on the Hi Fi Enthusiast Hardware of the Late Eighties that the previous owners of the house didn’t deign to take with them. (For the youngins: An MP3 is like a stream of audio that you don’t need the Internet to play.) Suffice to say we had a “okay” setup, given I spent a grand total of zero dollabux on it.īut my wife and I? We have MP3 collections that far outstrip our CD collections. The receiver had a 5CH Stereo setting so we had left+right channels in the rooms that had multiple speakers (and the two that only had single speakers I threw on L because Mono)… The PS3 was closer to that vision and had the hardware to play CDs, so it got unmothballed and used as a CD Player? Disc Deck? An audio source that did nothing but play audio CDs. (For the youngins: An audio CD is like a Spotify Playlist that is at most an hour long, but doesn’t require an Internet connection to play). No audio source.įor fun I hooked up the PS4 via toslink/spdif/that optical thingy so I could play Uncharted in surround… but it seems Sony’s dream of the PlayStation being the command center of your home entertainment centre never really got off the ground as it can’t even play one of our (many) audio CDs. But he does rather care about the surround, and waxes poetic about Master and Commander and House of the Flying Daggers for their sound fields) friend of ours, I had six speakers in four rooms.īut I had nothing to play on it. With a couple of shelf speakers I ripped the proprietary connectors off of, plus two more speakers and a receiver donated by a far-more Hi Fi snobbish (though not really. This “new” house came with a set of speakers in the kitchen and a nest of speaker wires connecting various corners of the main floor to a central location via the drop ceiling in the basement. Up until getting this house of ours a half decade ago we accomplished this by turning our computer speakers or CD player up to Rather Loud and trying not to spend too much time too close to it. We just like to have tunes around to help make chores a little less dreary and to fill the gaping void we all hide inside ourselves. We like ourselves some music in our house. Or, how to use Volumio, an old Raspberry Pi B+ (from 2014!), and an even older Denon stereo receiver+amplifier to pipe my wife’s MP3 collection to wired speakers in my house.
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