We don't have LAN cabling in our apartment and don't intend to install it as it would mean tearing open the false ceiling and a lot of civil work (there are 9 beams between our living room and bedroom) so a NAS would not be a viable option. I think hydra knows me from another forum. You'll also need to buy hard drives to install in the NAS (so do figure that also into the budget if you go this way). If you prefer to keep your music and movies in the same place, you will need a NAS: Something like a Synology DS220j (16.8K INR on Amazon) at the very least. You will need to split your movies and music into separate hard drives for this 2 device plan. You could also look at a Bluesound Node (less expensive) or a Yamaha WXC-50 (still less expensive).įor movies, the Nvidia Shield is probably the best option. (You can hook it up to an amp via RCAs or via balanced cables). But it should sound really good out of the box. Spotify playback is available via Airplay, and Spotify Connect (and eventually Tidal Connect) are apparently being added via firmware update. It can play from two directly connected (via USB) hard drives, and stream from Tidal. Navin, ideally you'll need a minimum of 2 devices: One to play stored music and stream music (Tidal/Spotify), and one to play stored movies and stream movies from Netflix/Prime etc.įor music, I'd suggest a _Matrix Audio Element i_. Odroid N2+ with Logitech Media Server (see links below) Options we have heard of (but not experienced):ġ.
REPLACE LOGITECH MEDIA SERVER WITH ROON PC
A friend set up a small PC with Kodi but it took many seconds to boot and was too complicated. We are looking for a media server/streamer that can be operated like a CD player or Set-Top box and has a simple interface like Apple TV. We need to get a Media Server / Streamer that can play all the "data" from the hard disk, as well as stream Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tidal, Spotify, etc from the internet but there are so many options that we got confused. To reduce the boxes I decided to Rip all my CDs to Lossless (almost 2TB) and all the DVDs and Blu Ray to MOV (about 3TB). We have a Marantz Pearl CD player and a similar-looking DVD/Blu Ray player, in addition, we watch Netflix via an Apple TV box, Amazon Prime is via some USB thing. In addition to that, we also watch Amazon Prime and Netflix and recently my nephew set me up with a Spotify and Tidal account (don't ask how I don't know). Yeah, it occupies a whole wall in our apartment. We have about 3000 CDs and about 1000 DVDs and Blu Ray discs.
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