[ale] OT: media box

[Edward Holcroft]

A word of warning for those who want to go for straight music archival. I
have wasted a lot of time messing with Plex, purely for music purposes.
Plex for some reason I am unable to fathom does not pull id3 tags, it
insists on using last.fm. Useless to me ... I have spent years ripping my
CD's and perfecting the id3 tags. I don't want it all screwed up by last.fm.

Plex has such a nice client, I wish they'd wake up on their tagging.

ed

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:02 AM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> On 11/25/2015 09:24 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> > We have discuss did in he past but lets go one more time. What would you
> > get for media box at home? I had different dedicated media players and
> > now I have windows PC which is no longer capable with running my kids
> > games :) While the E8400 CPU is capable of running 1080p content and the
> > box itself is relatively low noise for a desktop, still the box is huge
> > and power consumption is also factor.
> >
> > So I'm thinking of going green of sort.
> >
> > I have one multimedia android 4.0.4 box which has Ethernet and WiFi.
> > WiFi sucks big time and cannot hold connection. Also some apps works
> > fine some does not when playing multimedia content.
> >
> > Idea is to get one of very small factor PC. I was looking at Zotac mini
> > PC forms.
> >
> > Which one would you pick. Brand, form factor, CPU/GPU, even running OS ?
> >
>
>
> Raspberry Pi-2 for playback. I only use it wired. OSMC/Kodi+PlexBMC and
> a few other plugins.
>
> G3258-based PC for Plex Media Server-handles transcoding of local media
> to whatever the playback devices require. $100 for CPU+MB. 35W or so.
> Put it anywhere on the network.  Or keep the E8400 - I retired mine due
> to power and noise.
>
> Roku-something if you need commercial, DRM, playback. The Plex App only
> works with a plex login. The r-pi2 doesn't need that. I only use it wired.
>
> Email me offlist if anyone wants more specifics. A 5-10 min phone call
> will clarify much.
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