Leslie wrote:

Evan wrote:

Leslie, that is an awesome looking system you have there!!! Very well done!

 

On a side note; Look out for my 3000-2 fixin thread to pop up soon everybody. School is out and I want my vintage system up and running again ASAP!

 

 

Thanks Evan, you make me curious about the 3000-2 fixin thread. Btw, thanks for infecting me😕

Its a thread I started ages ago when my 3000-2 suddenly went silent. Search "snap crackle pop" 😂

Did I really infect you with the white-strain of the BeoVirus?!

no beocrack projects currently , instead.

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Leslie, Thanks for the info. I still can't believe how great your results are. I know how tedious painting can be (especially the slats toward the back of the unit)...amazing work.

Officially started my media center / pseudo BeoMedia 1 project.

It will provide mostly audio but also some video. All audio sent to BM4500 and system.

I hit the computer stores right after work, grabbed a SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS card with the matching Audigy 2 connection interface control board thing. ...and I have no idea how to hook the two together! 😂

Ok. Antivirus sw installed. Next is iTunes, then BeoPlayer!

Evan wrote:

Officially started my media center / pseudo BeoMedia 1 project.

It will provide mostly audio but also some video. All audio sent to BM4500 and system.

I hit the computer stores right after work, grabbed a SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS card with the matching Audigy 2 connection interface control board thing. ...and I have no idea how to hook the two together! 😂

Ok. Antivirus sw installed. Next is iTunes, then BeoPlayer!

Good luck my friend 

Many versions of Beoworld ago (when it was run by Steve in France) I cracked open a 5000 tape deck, removed its innards, and dismantled two laptops to try to create a BeoMaster 5000 compatible BeoPlayer :)

I had bad luck and fried the IBM laptop with some short circuit somewhere :-(

And the next laptop could not cope with the heat inside the 5000 tape deck case and its MP3s would stutter under pressure :-(

So in the end I gave up and some five years later went down the MacMini path

But I fully support your desire to create something unique, something tailored ... I would too ... if I only had time :-(

That sounds like a great project Ed! ...and yes, a lot of time needed. The only reason I have time for what I'm doing is because it is summer and have no classes! 

Its basically a PC that will sit behind a chair 😂 Nothing to special, but fun for sure. I'm just trying to create a dedicated space for my music and a place for my friends to play new music and videos from on my beosystem.

🙂

Evan wrote:

I'm just trying to create a dedicated space for my music and a place for my friends to play new music and videos from on my beosystem.

I bought a new cheap E-maschines, 300 GB, 2 GB Ram, put in a Creative platinum sound card, connected to my Onkyo, to flat screen, to BG 5000, to BL 4000/8000.

Installed Itunes and grabbed all my CDs and some of my vinyl (still a lot to grab), the computer is connected to my wireless router.

I have some 6000 tracks in Itunes all 320 Kbs, and I can watch internet TV and listen to internet radio, and with wireless keyboard and mouse, and the Onkyo remote, I manage all from my relax chair. To the Onkyo I have a cabel connect for guests bringing their Ipods.

I started out like you with a cheap (second hand) laptop, but in those days they were underpowered even compared to an e-machine.

Søren Mexico wrote:

I have some 6000 tracks in Itunes all 320 Kbs, and I can watch internet TV and listen to internet radio, and with wireless keyboard and mouse, and the Onkyo remote, I manage all from my relax chair. To the Onkyo I have a cabel connect for guests bringing their Ipods.

I have some 13,000 tracks that take up 79GB, also recorded as 320KBS MP3s although now I wish I had recorded them all in one of the lossless formats.  The bigger consumers of our mini AV server are our photos (including some iPhone videos) and our video files from a variety of sources.

Although I know that to save space I should delete :) our supposedly temporary recordings of TV shows continues to grow - the past 4 weeks' of Sunday have been problematic with 3 schedule conflicting series: so we have recorded two of them but not managed to even start watching them 😂

The one disappointment so far has been my attempts to capture my Music DVDs -- they are not as simple to capture as CDs -- and nor is accessing them through PLEX easy.  I am sure it is something I could address ... if I only had time.

elephant wrote:

The one disappointment so far has been my attempts to capture my Music DVDs -- they are not as simple to capture as CDs -- and nor is accessing them through PLEX easy.  I am sure it is something I could address ... if I only had time.

Rich wrote:

elephant wrote:

The one disappointment so far has been my attempts to capture my Music DVDs -- they are not as simple to capture as CDs -- and nor is accessing them through PLEX easy.  I am sure it is something I could address ... if I only had time.

Thanks Rich ... I have been using HandBrake up to now