HP Pavilion 15-e092ea

I wish I knew about win8 before I bought a new laptop this year.

Metro is for guys who trim their pubic hair.

I hope it finally kills microsoftie

looks decent and a good value, well under budget too-- congrats. plus the 1TB drive can't hurt for storage.

Don't they allow you to downgrade to windows7?

I plan on ripping my vinyl at some point. I think what I'll do is get a board like the beaglebone or raspberry pi and setup a nice script to automate the whole process.

Probably but it's probably a ball ache.

i'm lucky i don't have to deal with this, but i read that 8.1 (free upgrade) fixes most of the things people complain about like lack of a start button etc.

unless the script automates the needle-arm, I'm not sure it'd make much difference to me. flipping platters takes as much time as pushing stop on audacity.

besides, my OCD kicked in halfway through a crate and I gave up on "rip to .wav" and just started directly going for lower bitrate mp3s to save on space. massive sighs ensued.

Yeah, unfortunately the mechanical work will come down to a monkey. Although it could be fun to get some servo's and perhaps some suction cups, but at that point it's a bit of a Rube Goldberg contraption.

The script will come handy for trivial stuff like cutting tracks, adding metadata, uploading the files to the server, making checksums etc.

You know what, these boards(I call them boards but they're actually full-fledged computers) are so cheap that might get another one just to do a simultaneous low bitrate encoding.

You create checksums for mp3s?

Sure, the mp3s, FLACs and everything I'll be transferring across the network. I might use some protocols like rsync that do the checksum comparison simultaneously.

Why not? Makes sense don't you think?

What is the line in plug - a miniplug? My laptop, an older HP, has a miniplug input for a mic. I know those old sony minidiscs had special optical cords, I have one for my DAT.

[EDIT] I'm NOT taken by the tablets, I want a keyboard. all this touching touching touching of screens, I don't like it.

The line in is a mini jack connection. The mic input you mentioned would probably be mono only and poor sound quality. I hate touchscreen'd too...

It's probably best to use USB. I would.

an audio interface would be best, yeah. usb, fw, thunderbolt, whatever.

^^That's what I meant to say.

Something like this Behringer ADC should be good enough.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Behringer-UC...dp/B000KW2YEI/

don't know about that. might be as crummy as the laptop's own DAC. i'd get an mbox, though i don't like proprietary solutions, which is why i sold my digirack, ha ha, so no, i wouldn't get an mbox… but something good...

Eh, what I've heard is that the issues usually come down to bad grounds, jack interferences, etc. not so much the signal converter itself.

I own one of these, it might be the unit or Windows, but it is a little glitchy, sometimes it activates on its own, other times you just have to reboot to get it to work. While the quality is good I think I wouldn't want to use it for any critical applications. And there is no direct miniplug in with this specific device.