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Living Room / Re: How do you play high quality digital music *LOCALLY* - (CD quality - or higher)?
« on: October 22, 2022, 05:02 PM »
Assuming there are very little power failures in your house, you'll keep all your music on a server, running locally in a network. That reduces startup times to practically zero. Just keep your server and network (incl. WiFi) powered and you are good to go very, very quickly.

There is an Android app for Jellyfin. When your phone is connected through WiFi to your own network, it will play music and video. Your phone should also work as a remote control.

Depending on your what your ISP allows and your networking skills, the Jellyfin app on your phone will be able to connect to your Jellyfin server outside of your local network too. But be sure to secure things properly, there is the possibility you'll invite the internet to wreak havoc. Or worse, the German courts come knocking on your door for facilitating piracy.

A Raspberri Pi (v3.x or v4.x) computer doesn't consume much energy in idle or when it is active, so it shouldn't be too much of an issue to leave it running 24/7. Those cost around 35 USD, spend 10 to 15 USD on a decent case for that Raspberry Pi, a SD card with enough space for your library & the operating system for that computer and a cable to connect it to your HiFi set/DAC, if you don't already have one.

You'll need a keyboard, mouse and monitor for the initial configuration of the RPi computer and installation of JellyFin server. Afterwards you can take those parts away and manage the server from a web-interface.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firewall Tester
« on: September 27, 2022, 03:32 PM »
I don't think cstatus is going to work for me.  I have many servers where PING is not enabled and have to use the telnet command to see if the port is open. 
-rsteward (September 27, 2022, 01:39 PM)

nmap is great at what it does, but Windows quite often flags it as malware. Or at least a piece of software the user needs protection from (according to Microsoft). When you get it from the creator's website, it is a false positive.

On a general note: in your network you have telnet enabled, yet ICMP (ping) disabled? Telnet is kinda infamous for being unsafe, in (much) more ways than the ICMP protocol is.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firewall Tester
« on: September 26, 2022, 06:25 PM »
For your purposes, 'cstatus' from a fellow DC member could fit the bill. On first glance it doesn't look like it, because the initial interface is for checking how fast (or available) your DNS servers are. But if you look a bit further, you'll see there are more tools included inside this one, including an IP check tool. When you open that section, you will see that it can check which IP addresses are available in a given range, but you can also check if ports are open on the machines that have an IP address inside the selected range.

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Living Room / Re: How do you play high quality digital music *LOCALLY* - (CD quality - or higher)?
« on: September 14, 2022, 01:25 PM »
If your vintage HiFi gear has an AUX button/switch, Chances are high that you'll have Tulip connectors at the back to connect your computer to. A CD-player or DVD player in your computer can deal with audio CDs directly (without that special audio cable).

Granted, I do not listen to music on my phone (or watch video for that matter), detest tablets and only use computers/laptops for audio entertainment. When still living in NL, I had a Sony 5.1 amp, where I had connected my Sony carousel CD player, my Sony Mini-disc recorder, my JVC VHS recorder, My Sony PlayStation 2 and Sony CRT TV, all daisy-chained with SCART cables. Each of these devices came with a remote control. But because of SCART, I could use each remote to control all the devices that were connected by SCART. 3 Sony satellite speakers and 2 Wharfdale speakers...so yes, I do know what vintage entails, hahahah.

Connected my computer to the AUX port of the Sony amp and that was how I listened to music. Even though the carousel CD player held 5 CD's, because I only owned albums I often had a lot of songs I didn't appreciate, hence the Mini-Disc recorder. Which was a really great device, but it always took forever to song titles from CD to Mini-Disc. Apparently I owned a lot of albums that didn't copy that info from CD automatically to Mini-Disc.

Would have repeated such a setup here in PY, but you can't get that type of HiFi equipment here, unless you import it yourself. Import fees at the PY border are a problem. People working there are very corrupt. And I have not seen any of that type of HiFi equipment in stores that sell electronics. The general populace here doesn't know or care about decent HiFi equipment. Vintage or otherwise.

Anyway, in my mind that is still the proper way to listen to music. Not sound bars, Bluetooth speakers or that kind of stuff.

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Living Room / Re: How do you play high quality digital music *LOCALLY* - (CD quality - or higher)?
« on: September 14, 2022, 12:42 AM »
There are still audio cards available with more different outputs that allow you to connect your (desktop) computer to decent HiFi equipment.

My needs are in principle also quite basic in this regard. The built-in audio card in my desktops and laptops is sufficient for me. However, I do have a small el cheapo 5.1 audio set which contains a FM radio, Bluetooth, card reader, USB A slot and tulip connectors to connect external audio to.

This el cheapo set produces quite some ruckus if asked and plays my MP3s and FLAC's stored in my local LAN very well (for my ears at least) and without hiccups. First tried to do this with Bluetooth, but even when there was only a meter of distance between audio set and laptops there would the occasional hiccup.

So I just went the old-fashioned way and used a 3,5" jack to tulip plugs conversion cable and connected that way. No worries about connection reliability, no extra noises or hisses are introduced. For me, it works marvelously.

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