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tinpanalley

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  1. Ok well, I have a motherboard in the system I built. That's the only thing running my audio. So, no, I don't have a DAC. But I should probably drop this because I've hijacked my own thread with another topic. In any event, switching back to the topic of my post... Right now, I have Jriver set up so that it lets me scan my library by artist and then I created a custom second "Location" column and set that to my Root Music folder. So, every time I choose an artist (Sinatra is a particularly tricky one), that column gives me all the folders I've set up for organisation and then I can pick the albums according to the folders I've created. I think this might be a keeper!
  2. I'm definitely not using DirectSound but I have no idea whether ASiO or WASAPI are selected, or quite frankly what they are. I assume they're audio drivers?
  3. No to add to the derailing of my own thread, but how exactly can software on a computer determine the quality of an audio file's playback? Shouldn't that be more dependant on your sound card, your speakers, and the encoding of your audio file?
  4. I tihnk that's the one I'm running. But I can't seem to get path to be one of the columns in any kind of a useful way.
  5. Thanks for all the advice. Good points. Funny thing about movies though is that while I do have XBMC running on my Boxee, my Apple TV and my computer, it simply doesn't work for me because I really think all these media organisers are made for people who just dump their content into one folder. My video hdd gets as meticulously organised as my music one and I do this because the primary thing for me is cataloguing my media and organising it as I would on a shelf. I need things in different categories, etc. On top of that, I'd say about 80% of my video catalogue is British TV and documentaries and classic films and you'd be surprised how few of those have any images available for making XBMC look good. I've got a configuration running on JRiver 19 right now that works pretty perfectly. I just have to tweak some visuals but I can see why audiophile people like it. This is the closest I've gotten to how I like things.
  6. Simmered down to basics, I'd like to see the following columns: Column 1: Artist names alphabetically Column 2: The folders for each artist when selected in column 1 Column 3: The albums in whatever folder is selected in column 2 Then somewhere else on the screen... - a detailed 'playing now' with the album tracks and info on the currently playing track. Big album artwork. - being able to look through that column database seeing artwork without having to do anything more than double click to hear a song or select a whole album.
  7. I have a large collection of audio files (FLAC and 320kbps MP3) that I keep on a separate internal HDD. This is in addition to shelves of CDs and records. I have always simply used Windows Explorer because I keep everything organised by artist and then with subfolders for chronologically ordered albums. That organisation system plus my metadata method doesn't play nice with a lot of software out there. I don't use playlists at all. I find them pointless for my use. I listen to albums in their entirety 98% of the time and never shuffle my music except for the odd time when I listen to one song and then just search for another. (This, like random web browsing, can last hours if you're not careful when you have a massive collection ) The thing is that I'd really like some kind of GUI that could be the equivalent of skimming through records so I could look at album covers while I search for what I want and then clearly see the album I'm playing and its cover when I'm playing it while looking at other album covers in my library. Can anyone recommend a software I can use? I used to use Winamp but the GUI is awful. Then I've tried all these other programs I've read about (media monkey, musicbee, foobar) but they're ALL playlist and Windows library based. Nothing is just a simple GUI mixture of Windows Explorer and physically flipping through records and CDS. And no, foobar can't do EVERYthing. This simple thing I want, for example, is something that no foobar add-on is capable of doing. I'd love to hear any suggestions. Thanks!
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