Board 8 > Need some help, this was the first place i thought to go (Hey How are ya?!?!)

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So in the whirlwind that has been my life for the last few years I've essentially lost all means of playing any music I own as well as losing a ton of that music as well. I have roughly 300GB of music on an external hard drive. I do not really have a "home computer" that I would want to transfer all this music to but I would like to put together some type of system where I can play this music in my house, likely via a bluetooth speaker.

What is the best means of making this happen? I do not own any type of MP3 playing device (ipod, zune (is zune still a thing), etc), nor do i have the bluetooth speaker system yet.)

I do have an Amazon Prime Music account but none of this music that i own has been loaded into it, i'm not sure how much Amazon would let me upload before charging me cloud storage space.

Have at it, B8.
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Hi SBell.

I have no answer to your question but I just wanted to say hello
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Damn it Arti, I just wanna dance in my house like nobody is watching me!
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Do you have a laptop of sorts?
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Its a work laptop, while my entire life is essentially on this machine i didn't want to install anything on it. Can we avoid that?
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Pee in her butt
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neonreaper posted...

Pee in her butt

Strangely enough, i think this is relevant.
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sorry to hear about your collapsed relationship - what i did when this happened to me was sub to spotify immediately and never look back

oh, if you don't have the bluetooth speaker system yet, easy solution - get an Amazon Echo.

Get an Amazon Echo and then upload everything to my amazon account?
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honestly how much of the music is not already on amazon prime music?

I dunno really, whenever i go onto Amazon Prime to play anything Videogame or Anime related I get nothing.
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ah ok. for what it's worth i found the process of uploading my missing music to amazon prime really simple, but in the end i preferred and stuck with spotify. thinking about it it definitely seems like if you already have all the music on an external hd there's a much more elegant solution

Can i plug the external harddrive into the Amazon Echo and have it know what the hell i'm talking about?

And also... STElNER posted...

sorry to hear about your collapsed relationship

what if it was just technical difficulties that led to this current conundrum.
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SBell0105 posted...

Can i plug the external harddrive into the Amazon Echo and have it know what the hell i'm talking about?

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SBell0105 posted...

what if it was just technical difficulties that led to this current conundrum.

technical difficulties that leave you with nothing but an external full of music and a burning desire to play it loudly around your house???

STElNER posted...

SBell0105 posted...
what if it was just technical difficulties that led to this current conundrum.


technical difficulties that leave you with nothing but an external full of music and a burning desire to play it loudly around your house???

Ace Detective over here.
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Objection
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Wait that's not it
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So we haven't really come to a solution to my problem.
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Is getting a super cheap computer and using it just for this just out of the question?
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Regaro posted...

Is getting a super cheap computer and using it just for this just out of the question?

If I were to get a super cheap comp strictly for the purpose of playing music, would I be able to send said computer to a bluetooth portable speaker system in the house? What "program" would I need to process the music for playing? Old Computer which is now very much dead (dropped it during the move and well, yeah) had Itunes on it and that was the main method of playing music but really i'm not too interested in getting involved with them again. Would I just play through Amazon Music via the harddrive?

Some of these questions might sound very simple and stupid, but thats where we are right now.
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Any music playing program should work, as long as it can read local files. Never used Amazon Music, so I can't say whether it does.

Setting the computer up to use the bluetooth speakers would be done through the OS (Windows probably) sound settings, and only requires you to have a bluetooth adapter in the computer. If you don't have one, you can get a usb adapter for like 15 dollars.
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Pretty sure you can get an adapter for Bluetooth if it's not built into the computer
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As an owner of an against iPod classic that now costs around $600 to replace, I also am highly interested in this.

Like how do I play music at the gym without using my phone once my iPod dies?
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Obv. you carry around an inexpensive computer, ExTha.
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ExThaNemesis posted...

As an owner of an against iPod classic that now costs around $600 to replace, I also am highly interested in this.

Like how do I play music at the gym without using my phone once my iPod dies?

I have no answer to portability because I'm actually in the same boat as you, and like having a dedicated portable player. But SBell wasn't looking for a portable solution, so I didn't offer one
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use the boost to get through
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You can upload 50,000 songs for free to the Google Play Music cloud. Do you have an android phone?
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Yeah, portability isn't so much of a concern, I can handle whatever Amazon Prime has to offer via my phone for the short period of time i'm out and about.
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MZero11 posted...

You can upload 50,000 songs for free to the Google Play Music cloud. Do you have an android phone?

Ooooo, can i? That is something that is of interest.
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Why are options so limited on this.

It's like I don't care to use my phone for this. I'd much rather have a dedicated music player without any of the touch screen or Cloud related BS.

Surely there's enough of a market for it.
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a quick google search on MP3 players and they are all so focused on touch screens and crap. I just want a 500GB harddrive that'll play music if i direct it to speakers.
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Arti posted...

Hi SBell.

I have no answer to your question but I just wanted to say hello

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SBell0105 posted...

a quick google search on MP3 players and they are all so focused on touch screens and crap. I just want a 500GB harddrive that'll play music if i direct it to speakers.

This is why I recommended a full computer. Something super cheap and dated will work here easily, and probably be cheaper than a standard mp3 player these days.

If you're feeling gutsy and have time to kill, you could go for something like a Raspberry Pi, too.
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If you have a modern console not made by Nintendo, I'm pretty sure that you could use that for music. My PS3 seems to at least offer a method of connecting to an external hard drive to play mp3s, though I don't use it (my phone streams Spotify, which is good enough for me). As others mentioned, things like Amazon Echo and Google Home should also be able to play music, but I think they can only stream it.

Also, if your router has a USB port, you might be able to set up your external hard drive to be shared across your network and other devices can stream from that.
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I can't believe how difficult this is. It should be so much easier.
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SBell0105 posted...

I can't believe how difficult this is. It should be so much easier.

SBell I think we've just figured out that we need to join forces and invent this device.
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I'm down.

Fits in the pocket, bluetooth compatible, No touchscreen nonsense, 500gb - 1tb storage, massive battery life. You need it to do anyhting else?
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SBell0105 posted...

a quick google search on MP3 players and they are all so focused on touch screens and crap. I just want a 500GB harddrive that'll play music if i direct it to speakers.

So you want a Zune.
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