Re: MP3 Whole House Audio

[Raymond <Reb.barnett@xxxxxxx>]

What level of effort is involved in converting a CD collection to MP3? I
ask because I was looking last night at a link from the UKHA site to
someone who as connected CD  autochangers to a PC to provide
audio-on-demand. I can see problems both ways: autochangers costing
money, MP3 costing time.

I ask as someone with an extremely nice hifi-autochanger that is showing
signs of being on the way out. It makes a great excuse to begin looking
at firstly: a more friendly way of choosing music than guessing what's
loaded in the autochanger; secondly, a move towards whole house audio or
at least a degree of automation.

Ray.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jtankard@xxxxxxx [mailto:jtankard@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 July 1999 11:34
> To: REB.Barnett@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: MP3 Whole House Audio
>
>
> If you revert to private email please include me in the list
>
> John
> jtankard@xxxxxxx
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: richardpassman [mailto:richardpassman@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 21 July 1999 11:25
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: MP3 Whole House Audio
> >
> >
> > I thought you might say that.......
> >
> > The whole process is a little complicated. When I was looking at
> > the different
> > ways I could of implemented it (sorry I'm talking about the
> > Homevision screens)
> > I decided that I didn't want to have to change the HV schedule to
> > add additonal
> > playlists and such like, at the moment I have to change
> text files using
> > notepad, but as part of the multizone software I will be
> > dynamically creating
> > the text files that are used.
> >
> > I will grab the files from home later, and write up an
> > explanation if people so
> > want, though it might be wise if we do this outside the list as
> > its totally HV
> > based.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>
> > Sent: 21 July 1999 10:59
> > To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: MP3 Whole House Audio
> >
> >
> > Sounds excellent Richard!!!
> >
> > Any chance of letting us see your HV macros? :-)
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > M.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: richardpassman [mailto:richardpassman@xxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 21 July 1999 08:37
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: MP3 Whole House Audio
> > >
> > >
> > > Gavin,
> > >
> > > I am in the process of setting up such a thing.
> > >
> > > At the moment I'm using ACE\Winamp to do the MP3 playing and
> > I'm doing the
> > > actual 'jukebox' control from my Homevision. With Homevision
its
> > > possible to use
> > > text files to display information on a TV screen and so I
can
> > > display the ID3
> > > data and other dynamic information. I have this hooked up to
my
> > > Multizone preamp
> > > and I can then access the jukebox from any room in the
> house. This works
> > > well.... but is only the begining....
> > >
> > > I am currently writing some software to allow me to use
multiple
> > > sound cards
> > > within my HA PC and allow different MP3's to be played in
> > > different zones. The
> > > limit on zones will then be how many sound cards I can fit
in
> > the PC. I've
> > > successfully got three working simultaneously.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps, if you haven't met ACE yet then have look
> > > through the HA list
> > > (theres a link on the UKHA pages).
> > >
> > > Richard Passman
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: gavin_lyons@xxxxxxx
> > > Sent: 20 July 1999 18:55
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] MP3 Whole House Audio
> > >
> > >
> > > Has anyone used their HA PC to also act as an MP3 jukebox
> for whole
> > > house audio.
> > > Can anyone recommend any products?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Gavin Lyons
> > >
> > >
> > >
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