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  1. It seems to have taken me forever to get all this listening room together!! I built a Topanga and purchased JRiver Media Center 19. It's currently so slow it doesn't work, always goes to NOT RESPONDING and stops. Before I spend a lot of time on this, can someone assure me that they have a Topanga and Media Center 19 is working just fine?
  2. Got it to a real monitor, and it was 640x480 also, with no option to change. After several minutes is changed to a higher resolution and looked fine. Turned it off, when back to HDMI and it was back to 640 on the big screen with no options to change resolution.
  3. I had to download this on another machine and move it since the only browser, IE won't run in 640x480. Then trying the install it crashes each time with a kernal load error or something. I'll have to move this to another room and find a regular monitor. Thanks for your reply.
  4. I built a topanga server and it's been working fine. I'd really like to ditch the separate monitor and run HDMI to my NAD receiver (Audio is going USB to my DAC). Problem is I can't get anything but 640x480. There doesn't seem to be any way to change this resolution. I've build numerous computers and am completely familiar with changing video resolutions, with the obvious exception of this machine with Win 8.1. Any suggestions?
  5. at this point I haven't explored enough yet.... for example I think I read that not all the USB ports have flash drive support. As was in the instructions, I didn't connect the front ports, so that's the next thing to try. The other thing I'm not sure of is video. That's outside of the CAPS parameters, but I do want access to Amazon video and don't know how the Topanga will perform. One possibility is selling the CAPS and using the much quieter HP. I am definitely ready for that!!
  6. Isn' that the truth!! I bought a 3 tb drive for this process and was keeping it backed up to a 1 TB until I ran out of space then used part of an internal drive in the machine. Then the 3 TB had to be sent back for a problem. It wasn't to be gone for more than a week, but that was far past my comfort zone without a backup. I bought a cheap 3 TB and copied everything to it. Now it's back and I've got two complete copies. One will be in use and one sitting on the shelf so that should be OK....
  7. I thought I'd update what I've been doing here after getting all the good help and suggestions. First everyone was right about re-ripping to flac. I've got the majority of that done now -- over 5,000 -- And I've got another 1000 or so staying in mp3 format that originally were digital downloads, or my records. Putting records on CDs seemed like a good idea years ago, but many are unplayable now.... seems this digital media doesn't hold up like I expected. No use trying to rip, and if I want to listen, I now have a turntable set up in the listening room anyway and might as well play the vinyl!! On to hardware. Needless to say, doing that many CDs in the last month or so has taken a good deal of time. It wouldn't have been possible without dbpoweramp and the ability to copy tags from my mp3s to the flac files. That's got to rank up with one of the best things I've learned here. So I've definitely spent more time ripping than listening (I've never been one that can have music in the background....) I bought the parts for a CAPS Topanga and have it assembled except for the OS. So far it won't recognize my flash drive with Win8 on it. I haven't spent much time looking into that yet. I also discovered two other things. One was that the computer I had in my listening room that did around half the ripping was the noisy one I wanted to get rid of. Each night when I stopped, after probably 10 minutes the PC went to sleep. I never realized how loud it really was until it was silent all of a sudden. The second thing was looking at my other machines and their noise level. My best machine at home (just moved in January after I built a new one for the office) is an HP and really doesn't make that much noise. If that had been the one in here to begin with I might not have bought the parts for the CAPS machine.
  8. I've been using EAC for years. If I put it on a new machine, I can copy the CDDB.DAT to a flash drive and import the database into the new installation. This has always seemed to work. Now with version 1, there does't appear to be a CDDB.DAT. I can still import my old CDDB.DAT file, but if I get a new machine, now what? There's no CDDB.DAT file to move to the new machine. I know the database structure of EAC changed, but there must be a way to import/export my personal entries I must be missing something
  9. Overkill!!! I have a thread where I asked questions about overkill, but not dealing with processors. I have a Mac Mini 1.8 core duo and it streams music just fine (cost $145 a few weeks ago). I already had a Blu-Ray player in the system so I'm not doing much with any disc playback. I have streamed movies from Amazon and that works fine. Considering music only, if you've read of the C.A.P.S. builds here, the start with Atom processors and stream music just fine -- that's their goal, so even an i3 would be more powerful. If you're unfamiliar, read up here on that. I agree with the others in that it depends on what the use is. I also try to buy to the future (but never cutting edge as that usually isn't cost efficient) so I know what you're looking at.
  10. Thanks for your reply... I actually did give some thought to this, but didn't really know what to do. I didn't know if these things would give me just a quieter PC or a truly quiet PC like CAPS. If quieter pc building is about bringing down the noise level in offices, that's a bit different from trying to get completely silent in a music room It seemed more cost effective to get a cheap Mac Mini (paid $145) or even build the CAPS Topanga (<$500) than to try and patch this older PC. Other factors were size (this is a typical large case) and some difficulty I've had getting this older machine into my newer system (HDMI on the video card didn't always give me video on the tv, for example, so there was not way to "see" things). But, the Mac Mini isn't using HDMI (so I have to use the TV remote to pick VGA connection, but that works fine, and should work with the PC). The Mac Mini or a CAPS would be considerably smaller, although either would need an external drive for the music The machine itself is one I built, and have built three since then, each time moving the current machine down the line. This is ATX motherboard, Intel Q6600 with two hard drives -- one with Win8 and a 750 GB holding all the mp3s.
  11. Thanks for the reply! That's the program I'm hoping will work.... as it's only Alpha now, a crash is not unexpected. I don't know when it's predicted (if such a prediction is possible) to be a finished product. That's right. JRiver Alpha version mostly works just fine. It seems my decision is to hold out and wait and see how JRiver develops, or bail on the Mac and build a CAPS or something... Only problem is within iTunes (and thus also using trial versions of Amarra, Pure Music, etc.) -- I'm typing in the iTunes box on the upper right side of the program.
  12. yes, USB. I've just moved to a 1 TB drive having outgrown the 500 GB drive. Problem was the same with the other drive, either computer. Haven't done anything with JRiver -- that works fine (except I can consistently crash with Gizmo from my tablet). Is this something that should be done with iTunes? by far what is unusable is the search. I'd much rather have the search start ONLY when I finish typing and press ENTER, but I can't seem to find a setting to turn of a search after each letter is typed individually. Once something actually starts to play, it works OK
  13. I don't think that's the case, but who knows? Both machines have 4GB memory, the Mac Mini a 1.83 Ghz core duo, and the MacBook Pro a 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo. The Mini is a fresh install with nothing but sound programs installed (Amarra trial, JRiver Alpha, etc.) but the MacBook pro has been a working machine with tons of stuff installed.
  14. WOW!!! WHAT SCRIPT?? This would be great. All current ones are tagged like I want so this would make re-ripping very practical!! p.s. Your picture in your avatar reminds me of a young Brahms.... With my age and beard I've had pictures put on my door of an older Brahms.... EDIT. Since I had no idea such a thing was possible before I'd never checked. I just googled and found dougscripts.com.... is that what you were talking about
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