QQ Media Player NUC Buyers Club - Discussion

[HomerJAU]

All because I didnt want to get up off the couch and change the disc.

And I didn’t want my daughter and her friends handling my precious discs. Her favourite band is ‘Sticky Fingers’ (literally)
And I didn’t want my wife on my back complaining about my stack of ‘recently added’ or ‘to be played’ and ‘recently played’ discs I hadn’t filed away. I’d claimed a space to manage incoming/outgoing logistics

 

[HomerJAU]

This is a true story. I had all my Bluray movies (and what was left of my DVD movies) stored in many large plastic bins on shelves in my garage, they’d been there since we moved into this house in 2018, never touched, all ripped. Well over 2000.

I finally thought, why do I still have these, phoned a 2nd hand dealer, do you want movies, thinking I may get a buck each and I’d be rich! No not interested.

I took them to the local tip, filled the entire back of my 4WD with back seats removed. I asked if I could chuck them in for recycling. Answer: No, chuck them in the dumping pit. I drove there and as I biffed the first container over the edge. “hey, don’t do that, tip them out on the edge!” So emptied the lot and chucked the empty plastic bins over the edge.

As I drove off, I swear there were about 3 workers scavenging through the pile, and another 5 on the way. I didn’t know they had that many employees!

(Most were Region 1 imports from US, ha ha, they won’t play on AU BD players).

 

[LuvMyQuad]

So let me get this right.
This little affordable NUC is going to cause me to buy and set up a NAS with new hard drives, then start digitizing all my music and blurays........for thousands of dollars and man hours later.

All because I didnt want to get up off the couch and change the disc.

Ok I get it.

You dont have to have a nas. You can plug usb drives directly into the nuc. Thats how my son runs his rig.

 

[Marplot]

This is a true story. I had all my Bluray movies (and what was left of my DVD movies) stored in many large plastic bins on shelves in my garage, they’d been there since we moved into this house in 2018, never touched, all ripped. Well over 2000.

I finally thought, why do I still have these, phoned a 2nd hand dealer, do you want movies, thinking I may get a buck each and I’d be rich! No not interested.

I took them to the local tip, filled the entire back of my 4WD with back seats removed. I asked if I could chuck them in for recycling. Answer: No, chuck them in the dumping pit. I drove there and as I biffed the first container over the edge. “hey, don’t do that, tip them out on the edge!” So emptied the lot and chucked the empty plastic bins over the edge.

As I drove off, I swear there were about 3 workers scavenging through the pile, and another 5 on the way. I didn’t know they had that many employees!

(Most were Region 1 imports from US, ha ha, they won’t play on AU BD players).

At least in the US, you can donate them to a library who will sell them ~$1 each and help fund media purchases.
I have done that a number of times.
I also gave a lot of jazz CDs to the local Diocese when they were using them to help out elderly with some music program.

 

[Marplot]

I'd use s24 (24 bit) not s16 (16bit)

just got around to testing my updated dsf conversion and with ffmpeg there is no s24 you have to use s32 but retains 24-bit precision.
Input #0, flac, from '01. Concerto No. 1 In F Major Bwv 1046. Allegro.flac':
Metadata:
album_artist : Academy Of Ancient Music
title : Concerto No. 1 In F Major Bwv 1046. Allegro
TSRC : USHM10846101
composer : Johann Sebastian Bach
artist : Academy Of Ancient Music
album : Bach Brandenburg Concertos
genre : Classical
track : 01
date : 2009
encoder : Lavf61.7.100
Duration: 00:04:12.91, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 5983 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Audio: flac, 88200 Hz, 5.0, s32 (24 bit)