We are starting to have a deficit of redneckery up in here. :stupid:
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Sandy G Status Report!
- Thread starter KentTeffeteller
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Such a nice pun! :thmbsp:
sKiZo
Hates received: 92644 43.20°N 85.50°W
His post counter is getting lonely!
KentTeffeteller
Gimpus Stereophilus!
I talk to Sandy G on average weekly or more often. He is OK.
AFAIK W 10 s ASIO , Direct Sound emulation and WASAPI are same same as W8's ASIO , Direct Sound emulation and WASAPI .
keeping with the low overhead sound plan rather than old school CPU intensive Kernel streaming.
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sKiZo
Hates received: 92644 43.20°N 85.50°W
Great ... no reason for me to upgrade the HTPC then. Only gets through my firewall is my firewall looking for updates. W8 updates are even shut off.
Which reminds me. The fact that MS decided not to offer service packs or an offline upgrade option is unconscionable - as in unethical, amoral, immoral, unprincipled, indefensible, unforgivable, and just plain wrong - had to look up the spelling ... ;-}
They seem to have forgotten about us schmucks here in the hinterland with several computers to update and only one limited internet connection. They've got an ISO on the MSDN, but now you need a password and account to get to it ... (Grouse grumble mumble ... GROUSE GRUMBLE MUMBLE! I say!! )
Er ... what was the topic? :scratch2:
Which reminds me. The fact that MS decided not to offer service packs or an offline upgrade option is unconscionable - as in unethical, amoral, immoral, unprincipled, indefensible, unforgivable, and just plain wrong - had to look up the spelling ... ;-}
They seem to have forgotten about us schmucks here in the hinterland with several computers to update and only one limited internet connection. They've got an ISO on the MSDN, but now you need a password and account to get to it ... (Grouse grumble mumble ... GROUSE GRUMBLE MUMBLE! I say!! )
Er ... what was the topic? :scratch2:
KentTeffeteller
Gimpus Stereophilus!
Big advantage with Windows 10 in audio. FLAC support is native.
sKiZo
Hates received: 92644 43.20°N 85.50°W
Eh ...
Not an issue using jRiver Media Center for a front end player. That's da bom for anything audio in my corner of paradise. One stop shopping and all that - if it don't do it, it don't need to be done ...
PS ... how exactly does it support FLAC if it doesn't even support Media Player?
Not an issue using jRiver Media Center for a front end player. That's da bom for anything audio in my corner of paradise. One stop shopping and all that - if it don't do it, it don't need to be done ...
PS ... how exactly does it support FLAC if it doesn't even support Media Player?
Windows Media player is still included as well as an X box music app and another music player modern UI tile app in W10 (only Windows Media Center is not .) Navigation,networking and a lot of other things are much better also and it renders images a lot faster with an improved graphics renderer (and feels faster ) despite some depreciation in Passmark 8.0 x64 Disc Mark and Memory Mark scores
. Gamers are all about it now it comes with DX 12 baked in and better multi screen support .Try the latest x64 VLC for an audio player and don't be surprised if it sounds better than J.River ,Foobar 2000, iTunes or WMP . ☺
The new Version 10 NT kernel is more efficient W10 will make you throw rocks at anything else if you aren't invested in WMC .
I have it on this PC as my daily driver now on a primary hdd partition dual boot configuration (runs like a scalded dog .) When the beta period is over I will just do a clean install and migrate everything onto that .( on 3 PC's here not counting this one ,4 altogether )
Ofc.you could run an HTPC with a Wifi SoC (AKA Chrome Stick or Roku stick and headless N.A.S. ) x86 CPU is pretty much overkill for an HTPC unless you are invested in x86 front end , editing , trans-coding ripping and or gaming or playing 4K high bit rate video which you can do from a ~$350.00 Sony hdd player .
All that being said nothing wrong with overkill now and then either
I'm Wi Fi streaming some music from my headless NAS into this PC out to a DAC and headphone amp right now. ☺
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radioactive
tube gear fanatic
Uh oh....time to duck and cover. :thmbsp:
radioactive
tube gear fanatic
Welcome back ya big lug. It was gettin way too genteel up in here. Some of em were starting to trade quiche recipes.