Media player

adolf hamster · 18 Oct 2016 at 19:23

Hi Guys

so i'm thinking it's time to modernise my extensive and hodge podge media collection.

thing is, i've never fussed much outside of ripping cd's using windows media player, now i've recently added a few more to the collection (new albums, so should be easy enough to get info for them), but it seems their system for finding album art, track names etc is broken, not that it was ever that good anyway.

so does anyone have any suggestions for software to do this? if possible i'd also be interested in digitalising my dvd collection too before they get damaged to the point of being unreadable.

lude1962 · 19 Oct 2016 at 08:45

'if possible i'd also be interested in digitalising my dvd collection too before they get damaged to the point of being unreadable. '
makemkv

dmsims · 19 Oct 2016 at 09:19

Media Monkey or Foobar

AHarvey · 19 Oct 2016 at 11:26

What do you play them on?

TV? Laptop etc?

Best thing I ever did was to buy myself a large external drive, dump music, films etc on to that and then purchased a Raspi3 running OpenElec. Set it to read the external drives, imports all the info for you movies, songs etc for you.

I don't even bother on Windows/PC/laptop anymore.

Gimpymoo · 19 Oct 2016 at 12:43

AHarvey said:
What do you play them on?

TV? Laptop etc?

Best thing I ever did was to buy myself a large external drive, dump music, films etc on to that and then purchased a Raspi3 running OpenElec. Set it to read the external drives, imports all the info for you movies, songs etc for you.

I don't even bother on Windows/PC/laptop anymore.

Is the Pi powerful enough to handle streaming across network?

pepp77 · 19 Oct 2016 at 12:45

Tag&Rename is good for sorting music files.

AHarvey · 19 Oct 2016 at 12:52

Gimpymoo said:
Is the Pi powerful enough to handle streaming across network?

The Pi1 was rather slow at updating things but ran 1080 video without issue.

Pi3 is much snappier through the menu's and has no problem with video.

I think there is an issue with codecs and some formats but I've never run into problems after watching over 1000 films on it.

I seriously doubt it would have the ability to output at 4k though but for HD it's a great solution. control it via my phone as well.

You could attach an external HDD directly too it though if you wanted to and then copy films etc over to it as and when you buy/convert

adolf hamster · 19 Oct 2016 at 14:43

I'm primarily windows/android, so whatever works there.

I'd mainly be using good ol'vlc for films etc so not too fussed on codecs- i'll check out makemkv.

In perspective im currently playing dvd's on a ps3 while studying so not too hard to top that, i am partially debating looking into changing the os on the ps3 to allow playing files from the hard drive (assuming its possible, im guessing someone somewhere has done it)

As for resolution, most of my stuff is sd, with the odd bit of 1080 so dont think thats too bad.