Hey -
I have pretty simple needs, but I wanted to see if anyone knew any reasons for me to retire good ol' Winamp 2.9.
All 16gb of music is ID3 v1 and v2 tagged and organized into a folder system on my PC. Finding things is fairly simple for me. I will be moving to a decicated HTPC with a PIII 800 and a Revo 7.1 card in the near future, and I want to be able to get the best audio quality with that hardware, and make it easier to use a Gyration kb and mouse, if possible.
Any suggestions? J. River's Media Jukebox looks great, but I don't know if it offers me anything that Winamp doesn't, looking ONLY at audio. With the kernel streaming plugin and using PCM over SPDIF, would anything offer better quality than Winamp? How about a full screen player or visualization that is cool enough to leave the TV on to view? I hope to have it hooked up to a Samsung 46" DLP TV, so I have the screen resolution to play with. One concern is that Winamp will be unreadable from any distance at 1280 by 720...
Also, I am in love with the idea of using NetRemote on a PDA to select music, would this work with a program like Media Jukebox, in terms of viewing and selecting playlists and directories of music?
Thanks in advance!
RDaneel
I have pretty simple needs, but I wanted to see if anyone knew any reasons for me to retire good ol' Winamp 2.9.
All 16gb of music is ID3 v1 and v2 tagged and organized into a folder system on my PC. Finding things is fairly simple for me. I will be moving to a decicated HTPC with a PIII 800 and a Revo 7.1 card in the near future, and I want to be able to get the best audio quality with that hardware, and make it easier to use a Gyration kb and mouse, if possible.
Any suggestions? J. River's Media Jukebox looks great, but I don't know if it offers me anything that Winamp doesn't, looking ONLY at audio. With the kernel streaming plugin and using PCM over SPDIF, would anything offer better quality than Winamp? How about a full screen player or visualization that is cool enough to leave the TV on to view? I hope to have it hooked up to a Samsung 46" DLP TV, so I have the screen resolution to play with. One concern is that Winamp will be unreadable from any distance at 1280 by 720...
Also, I am in love with the idea of using NetRemote on a PDA to select music, would this work with a program like Media Jukebox, in terms of viewing and selecting playlists and directories of music?
Thanks in advance!
RDaneel