Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-14 Thread Dogberry2
I always rip CDs for my home LMS system to both FLAC and MP3 (using dbPowerAmp's multi-encoder), so I have both formats available. My carry-around music is about 400+ albums in MP3 on my Android phone, with a pair of Sennheiser PX 200 II headphones, which are nice because I don't like in-ear

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-12 Thread aubuti
wortgefecht wrote: Long story short: What is your mobile setup and what are your experiences with it? I'll reciprocate and cut my long story short, thus sparing you the step-by-step details of the full evolution from my 128MB Creative MuVo

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-11 Thread pablolie
FLACs (for jazz and classical) and MP3s on Samsung S5, and Shure SE530 that provide complete isolation even in loud environments. I fly and travel a fair amount, and need good music to relax during travel or before going to sleep. An important combo for me, hence the relatively pricey in ear

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-07 Thread get.amped
wortgefecht wrote: BTW: is it possible to stream with LMS outside the own home network? I don't think so. Definitely possible, particularly if you are only accessing MP3 quality tracks; bandwidth required for FLACs could be a problem depending on your home ISP's upload speed and whether you

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-07 Thread pippin
Yea, definitely. I do this a lot, too. There's a setup guide on penguinlovesmusic.de although I definitely would recommend to use a VPN instead --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-07 Thread wortgefecht
Nice, thanks, I will look into it. I have 100 mbit/s up- and downstream ;) Gesendet von meinem Nexus 4 mit Tapatalk - *ASRock Ion 330* (home office) w/ Xubuntu 14.04 + XBMC Gotham + LMS 7.9, FLAC Local Player Behringer MS 40 - *Boom* (master bedroom), *Radio* (master bathroom), *Archos

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-07 Thread pippin
Oh, Kabel Deutschland? They technically don't allow the use of VPNs... --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-07 Thread wortgefecht
pippin wrote: Oh, Kabel Deutschland? They technically don't allow the use of VPNs... No, Switzerland ;) Fibre optic provided by our local energy provider. VPN should work. - *ASRock Ion 330* (home office) w/ Xubuntu 14.04 + XBMC Gotham + LMS 7.9, FLAC Local Player Behringer MS 40 -

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-06 Thread wortgefecht
matka wrote: An offer, if you want to try streaming from subsonic, pm me and I will give you an url/user id/password. I usually use ogg -q6 but I can stream in any configuration including flac which is really an overkill. Thanks, but I keep a mp3 backup of my FLAC files in Google Play Music

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-05 Thread Julf
Still happy with my 'Empeg cars' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empeg_Car) To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people - Paul W Klipsch, 1953

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-04 Thread probedb
wortgefecht wrote: Long story short: What is your mobile setup and what are your experiences with it? Rockboxed Sansa Clip+, Westone UM3x with custom molds. No need for anything else. Expandable storage and the Clip has excellent sound quality. 'last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/probedb)

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-04 Thread cliveb
Rockboxed 8GB Sansa Clip+ with 32GB SD card. Shure e2c IEMs with Comply foam tips. Lame MP3s. Still have an old Rio Karma (now there was a classic in its time) with 32GB CF card (installed after hard disk died), but its battery life has deteriorated so isn't really very useful on the go.

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-04 Thread RonM
I don't often listen to music on the go, except in my cars and occasionally in the commuter train. For the latter I use my smartphone with good quality earbuds (Klipsch). We have two cars. One is a Hyundai Sonata which has a very nice sound system, but had mediocre speakers (woofers in the

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-04 Thread banned for life
memphis audio in the enclosures (it has boxes with passive radiators on all four corners.) jl audio 6W3 in sealed enclosure per jl specs .(75in MDF. (hey, I didn't try to shop) 250 jl bass amp pioneer premium head unit. Less than 1K for can't stand it BFL

[slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-03 Thread wortgefecht
Ever since I got my first Sony Walkman as a kid in the 1980ies, one would almost never see me in public without headphones. I went through the whole evolution of mobile music players: several Walkmen, later Discmen, I even had a Minidisc once. In the late 1990ies I got myself a Rio PMP 300 and

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-03 Thread matka
wortgefecht wrote: Unhappy with the sound quality of my mobile...Now I hook the Fiio DAC with my Beyerdynamic to it and am completely happy while travelling and staying in hotels :) Long story short: What is your mobile setup and what are your experiences with it? Were you dissatisfied

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-03 Thread wortgefecht
matka wrote: Were you dissatisfied with flac from your phone ? Is DAC a must ? No, not really. As a matter of fact--low disk space aside--I felt like untangling the music listening from my phone and move it back to a dedicated device. That's why. matka wrote: In case the above is not true,

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-03 Thread JJZolx
This isn't a traveling setup, more of a gym/workout system. I have a SanDisk Sansa Fuze v2, and also a Sansa Clip Zip, with some 32GB #956;SD cards. But I only use the Clip these days. I've always used Rockbox on them and I doubt that I'd consider a DAP that couldn't run Rockbox. I use several

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-03 Thread wortgefecht
JJZolx wrote: This isn't a traveling setup, more of a gym/workout system. Well, as mentioned before, I stopped listening to music 'on the go' some years ago, i.e. while walking, running, or being outdoors in general. So my setup is for being on the train or in the hotel. JJZolx wrote: I

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-03 Thread JJZolx
wortgefecht wrote: Well, as mentioned before, I stopped listening to music 'on the go' some years ago, i.e. while walking, running, or being outdoors in general. I don't either. Never did, in fact. Only when working out and even then, usually just when stretching and doing cardio.

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-03 Thread get.amped
As soon as I made the leap from flip-phone to smartphone, I bought a 64GB SD card for it (Samsung SIII) and loaded it up with FLACs. I pair that with a variety of output devices depending on the situation: Koss Porta-Pros for quiet environments, in-helmet speakers for skiing, JVC active

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-03 Thread matka
wortgefecht wrote: I thought of a streaming solution, too. But since I use my phone for internet access most of the time while travelling, I decided not to do so. Sorry but I don't see the conflict here. If you need to preserve the bandwith (either becasue you use it or don't want to pay

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-03 Thread Pascal Hibon
wortgefecht wrote: Long story short: What is your mobile setup and what are your experiences with it? At first I used a Wandboard with CSOS in a small enclosure that holds a hard drive. I called it 'msqueeze' (http://www.msqueeze.co.nf/index.html). The drive is sync'd with my NAS when at