Playing music from hard disk, an introduction

Many questions I receive are by people that want to start playing music the modern way: on some kind of file based system. But they don’t know where to start. This video is a short introduction.
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[@docgify]

Hans,you nearly broke a smile near the end,wonderful as always ,thankyou!

[@TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel]

😊

[@prestondufauchard5919]

Really enjoy your presentations. Got your book, and the videos are nice additions. Great voice to the audiophile world, and the by-line "Don't forget to enjoy the music" reflects the central mission. Cheers.

[@sharagan]

Hello Hans, thanks for the structured and well explained overview. I am looking forward to see more :)

[@ZoomPicard]

I don't think it's marketing speak. Hans is trying to make this accessible to none IT geeks but there are levels depending on your interest and time, hence the diy towards the end of the video. The ultimate goal is to listen to audio sitting back in a living room environment which is typically where we have our hifi systems. Not in an office or where many of us store our main computer.

[@GjbMcN]

I have a question. Currently I use a SSD a caddy connected by USB to my Router's USB port. I rip my cd's to it but mostly for my home intranet playback via apps like Groove on PC's or XBox or stream to Chromecast Audio connected by SPDIF to either my AVR(lounge room) or 3.5mm jack to a powered speaker (bathroom). Software I am - depending on device at hand - either a file explorer app like File Browser or Infuse when using a device with IOS or ES Explorer VLC on Android. I would to find a cheap Bluray player that reads CD parameter flac files as I have heard they have better DACs. In the past I used to use Apple TV3 optical to AVR. I went headless like this as I have a Plasma still and wanted to avoid burn-in and save power from album art constantly displaying. Now my question is what signal quality am doing Wifi not Bluetooth AND the chromecast can "Do" Tidal is it original quality or downsampled?

[@TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel]

It is impossible to give a valid advise since I don't know you nor your equipment. It is about the same as I described in kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6rOnK2uitingpY

[@vincentubachs6129]

Vraagje: is het mogelijk om (bijv.) .FLAC bestanden op een externe harde schijf aan een streamer en/of DAC te hangen en de muziek af te spelen? Krijg ik nergens gevonden. Ik heb m’n muziek nu op m’n Synology server staan en stream dan vanuit m’n dS audio app naar de versterker, maar heb het idee dat het geluid beter kan als ik een externe harde schijf rechtstreeks op een DAC aansluit.

[@TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel]

Je kunt geen harde schijf op een DAC aansluiten. Je kunt wel bijvoorbeeld een network bridge gebruiken die DLNA ondersteunt en die op de DAC aansluiten. Dan kunnen de audio bestanden op de NAS blijven. De NAS moet dan een DLNA server programma draaien (standaard meegeleverd met elke Synology) en je moet op je smartphone of tablet een DLNA controller app installeren.

[@vincentubachs6129]

@@TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel Ontzettend bedankt voor de reactie is. Dan laat ik alles wel op de server staan. Alles speelt ook gewoon dat is het probleem niet, maar ik dacht dat ik bepaalde files in betere geluidskwaliteit af zou kunnen spelen als ik er een dac tussen zet

[@n.r.2258]

Plug a harddisk into an Apple Airport router and you’re NAS is ready to go and works for the biggest archive. If you use an Apple Express in you’re network, you even have an analog or digital output into you’re Hi-fi equipment. Both are for a few bugs on E-Bay to buy. And the best …. no computer knowledge necessary.

[@TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel]

Some of those products suffer from jitter quite heavily. Obviously not in your case.

[@hendrilock000]

Dsd1024 out usb to what that makes it i2s (armino384?) through low pass filter through amp to loud speakers... what am I missing. Want bit perfect native dsd with no pcming.

[@hendrilock000]

Diy solutions. Please.

[@TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel]

I would like for to be cooked to perfection stand ready for me every time I think of it. Not gonna happen, though...😀

[@randykalkwarf]

Dear Hans, I want to use an external ssd hard disk to carry my music and plug it in to my Lumin streamer/dac. Which external ssd harddisk do you recommend?

[@TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel]

Lumin thinks that old fashioned hard disks are less noisy. For as far as SSD drives are concerned: in a well designed system there should be no difference. In a less well designed system, there can be differences but these might vary per type of system.

[@ingmarsjansons3665]

Thank you Hans for your time and effort by making videos. I found them useful and educational. Im a beginner in world of audio. I have maybe a litlle bit stupid question: I have my music system where i have my FLAC files on external hdd drive connected to laptop. I play files via logitech sqeezebox duet network reciever conneted with toshlink to Cambridge audio DacMagic plus DAC. Question: Is there anything to pay attention to improve sound quality in file transfer chain: External hdd --> PC --> Network reciever? Thank you for your time to look at my question. Best regards. Ingmars from Denmark.

[@TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel]

I made some playlists that will be of interest to you: kzbin.info/aero/PLMbsmejHnP8HJ22CPyJgkH2YprMP1Numb, kzbin.info/aero/PLMbsmejHnP8E-kEzlliBX1bc8V-V4aQfE and kzbin.info/aero/PLMbsmejHnP8GxFbgS5E2EXWLOLptcXNg-

[@ingmarsjansons3665]

Thank you for your answer Hans! After watching some of your "connecting your DAC" videos i founded out than my cheap chinese toshlink cable might be one of the weak point in connection chain. Little bit of googling and i became to decition to change it to "Supra Trico" coax cable insted. One more time thank you fro your educational videos. Just subscribed on patreon program!

[@matt69savage-xe3ox]

I've had 40 years of hifi bs. No one ever says whar the best, product, system and network is because they all make money from the confusion.

[@TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel]

I didn't aks you - or anyone else - to watch my videos. So if you don't like them, just don't watch.

[@stevewilliams2498]

Introduction ? Not for beginners I am afraid. 5mins in and you have lost me. Sorry

[@TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel]

Defining the entry level for this kind of videos is always difficult. Sorry it wasn't your thing.