Your Top 5 Songs of All Time

[TAC]

Plex?

[ReaperKK]

Plex?

Plex is an application you can install on your computer that will allow you to stream media like music or movies to other devices.

https://www.plex.tv/

[HOF]

Plex?

Plex is an application you can install on your computer that will allow you to stream media like music or movies to other devices.

https://www.plex.tv/

Hmmm. So if I download this on my laptop that has all my music, I can stream it on my phone somehow (guessing via an app on my phone)?

[Stadler]

Plex?

Plex is an application you can install on your computer that will allow you to stream media like music or movies to other devices.

https://www.plex.tv/

Hmmm. So if I download this on my laptop that has all my music, I can stream it on my phone somehow (guessing via an app on my phone)?

I'm hoping so, because I've been ripping all my CDs and DVDs to hard drive, and I'm hoping Plex will let me listen to that in my car. 

[TAC]

But would that mean you have to have your laptop turned on with your hard drive attached while in your car?

[wolfking]

I keep seeing this thread title and dismiss it.  There's no way I could pinpoint 5 songs I don't think.  Even coming up with a top 50 of songs would be too hard.  Albums is hard enough but songs, jeez, I dunno.

[TAC]

Again, you are being transported to a dessert isle and you can only listen to 5 songs for the rest of your life. Your plane leaves in an hour. What are they??

[Elite]

Surely this one has got to be on your list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY

[Stadler]

Again, you are being transported to a dessert isle and you can only listen to 5 songs for the rest of your life. Your plane leaves in an hour. What are they??

Cheesecake
Pecan pie
Chocolate chip ice cream
Chocolate mousse
Warm apple pie


(Sorry, I couldn't resist that; it was a lay-up.)

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Again, you are being transported to a dessert isle and you can only listen to 5 songs for the rest of your life. Your plane leaves in an hour. What are they??

Cheesecake
Pecan pie
Chocolate chip ice cream
Chocolate mousse
Warm apple pie


(Sorry, I couldn't resist that; it was a lay-up.)

Cheesecake and Ice Cream sure, but what about Tiramisu? Strawberry Shortcake? Pumpkin Pie?

[TAC]

Yeah, and I know better than that!


Also, you know how I know I'm a Fogey? Because for some reason, I like a nice slice of hot apple pie with vanilla ice cream as much as I like chocolate cake.

[Elite]

Apple pie is the best them though, can't fault you for that at all!

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Yeah, and I know better than that!


Also, you know how I know I'm a Fogey? Because for some reason, I like a nice slice of hot apple pie with vanilla ice cream as much as I like chocolate cake.

I love Apple Pie, but with a caveat. It has to be homemade with fresh apples. None of that store bought frozen junk.

[wolfking]

Again, you are being transported to a dessert isle and you can only listen to 5 songs for the rest of your life. Your plane leaves in an hour. What are they??

I guess that analogy helps.  I'll have a think.

[Stadler]

Yeah, and I know better than that!


Also, you know how I know I'm a Fogey? Because for some reason, I like a nice slice of hot apple pie with vanilla ice cream as much as I like chocolate cake.

I love Apple Pie, but with a caveat. It has to be homemade with fresh apples. None of that store bought frozen junk.

I actually went to a "You pick 'em" farm a couple years ago and picked a bucket of I think they were "jonagold" and made what was a cross between a pie and a crumble and man was it delicious.   I'd like to try that again, but the picking here has been slim the last couple years.

[Elite]

Yeah, and I know better than that!


Also, you know how I know I'm a Fogey? Because for some reason, I like a nice slice of hot apple pie with vanilla ice cream as much as I like chocolate cake.

I love Apple Pie, but with a caveat. It has to be homemade with fresh apples. None of that store bought frozen junk.

Definitely agree on this.

[TAC]

Yeah, and I know better than that!


Also, you know how I know I'm a Fogey? Because for some reason, I like a nice slice of hot apple pie with vanilla ice cream as much as I like chocolate cake.

I love Apple Pie, but with a caveat. It has to be homemade with fresh apples. None of that store bought frozen junk.

I actually went to a "You pick 'em" farm a couple years ago and picked a bucket of I think they were "jonagold" and made what was a cross between a pie and a crumble and man was it delicious.   I'd like to try that again, but the picking here has been slim the last couple years.

So um....slim pickings?

[Cool Chris]

What does liking apple pie with vanilla ice cream have to do with fogey-ism?

[TAC]

What does liking apple pie with vanilla ice cream have to do with fogey-ism?

To me, it's crossing the cake to pie threshold.

[Cool Chris]

I literally have no idea what you are talking about. What threshold? Is liking pie associated with being old?



Taker almost lost it there!

[dparrott]

Plex?

Plex is an application you can install on your computer that will allow you to stream media like music or movies to other devices.

https://www.plex.tv/

Hmmm. So if I download this on my laptop that has all my music, I can stream it on my phone somehow (guessing via an app on my phone)?

Yes, that's what I do. 

[hefdaddy42]

Here's the Spotify playlist, but it's missing 11 songs. All the Transatlantic, Neal Morse, and Spock's Beard stuff isn't on Spotify. As well as Kevin Gilbert and Michael Kiske.

Not to be a pain in the butt, but if there is any way to remove the live versions of John Hiatt's "Lipstick Sunset" and Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" and replace them with the studio versions, that would make this perfect.  If it's too much trouble, don't bother. 

Sure! I mostly did the live versions for my benefit, but since I don't listen to the playlist on Spotify, I have no problem with changing them.

Thanks, pal!

[Architeuthis]

Surely this one has got to be on your list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY

          

[HOF]

Plex?

Plex is an application you can install on your computer that will allow you to stream media like music or movies to other devices.

https://www.plex.tv/

Hmmm. So if I download this on my laptop that has all my music, I can stream it on my phone somehow (guessing via an app on my phone)?

Yes, that's what I do.

So looking at this a little further, it looks like you do stream them from your own device (it basically makes your computer the server) as opposed to from a cloud based device. So I gather you have to have your computer turned on and connected to the internet in order to stream on another device?

[ReaperKK]

Plex?

Plex is an application you can install on your computer that will allow you to stream media like music or movies to other devices.

https://www.plex.tv/

Hmmm. So if I download this on my laptop that has all my music, I can stream it on my phone somehow (guessing via an app on my phone)?

Yes, that's what I do.

So looking at this a little further, it looks like you do stream them from your own device (it basically makes your computer the server) as opposed to from a cloud based device. So I gather you have to have your computer turned on and connected to the internet in order to stream on another device?

That's right, it's easy to setup. Also for the ability to stream from your personal device (like a laptop) to a phone is you'll have to pay for the app. I suggest just getting the lifetime membership deal and be done with it, plex really is great.

Additionally a lot of tv's have a plex app as well, for example my LG tv has a plex app so I can download it and listen to my music through my home theater set up.

[HOF]

Plex?

Plex is an application you can install on your computer that will allow you to stream media like music or movies to other devices.

https://www.plex.tv/

Hmmm. So if I download this on my laptop that has all my music, I can stream it on my phone somehow (guessing via an app on my phone)?

Yes, that's what I do.

So looking at this a little further, it looks like you do stream them from your own device (it basically makes your computer the server) as opposed to from a cloud based device. So I gather you have to have your computer turned on and connected to the internet in order to stream on another device?

That's right, it's easy to setup. Also for the ability to stream from your personal device (like a laptop) to a phone is you'll have to pay for the app. I suggest just getting the lifetime membership deal and be done with it, plex really is great.

Additionally a lot of tv's have a plex app as well, for example my LG tv has a plex app so I can download it and listen to my music through my home theater set up.

I’ll have to think some more about this, as I’d love to be able to access the music collection on my laptop when I’m out and about from my phone. Does it take up significant memory/processing power on the host/server device while in use (or any when not streaming)? How is the sound quality on the streaming device?

[TAC]

But would that mean you have to have your laptop turned on with your hard drive attached while streaming it off another device when you're not at home??

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[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

But would that mean you have to have your laptop turned on with your hard drive attached while streaming it off another device when you're not at home??

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Oh, no one answered you.

Yes. You would have to have whatever device that is running the Plex Server on (whether that's a laptop with an external hard drive (not recommended), or a NAS drive (preferred method), or just a desktop computer) to be able to access the music remotely. On the remote device (cell phone, tablet, laptop, computer, TV, etc.) you will need either the Plex App or the Plexamp app (highly recommended). Once you have the server all set up and the devices set up with the app of your choice, it all just works.

[ReaperKK]

Plex?

Plex is an application you can install on your computer that will allow you to stream media like music or movies to other devices.

https://www.plex.tv/

Hmmm. So if I download this on my laptop that has all my music, I can stream it on my phone somehow (guessing via an app on my phone)?

Yes, that's what I do.

So looking at this a little further, it looks like you do stream them from your own device (it basically makes your computer the server) as opposed to from a cloud based device. So I gather you have to have your computer turned on and connected to the internet in order to stream on another device?

That's right, it's easy to setup. Also for the ability to stream from your personal device (like a laptop) to a phone is you'll have to pay for the app. I suggest just getting the lifetime membership deal and be done with it, plex really is great.

Additionally a lot of tv's have a plex app as well, for example my LG tv has a plex app so I can download it and listen to my music through my home theater set up.

I’ll have to think some more about this, as I’d love to be able to access the music collection on my laptop when I’m out and about from my phone. Does it take up significant memory/processing power on the host/server device while in use (or any when not streaming)? How is the sound quality on the streaming device?

No it doesn't take much processing power at all and you can control the sound quality coming through the stream if you're worried about bandwidth, or you can have it stream in the original quality stored on your laptop.

[jingle.boy]

So basically, Plex is like having personal Spotify service for ones own musical library?

[TAC]

I just can't really understand the usefulness. Seems like a lot of work to play the odd album that isn't on Spotify. Plus, I have to leave my computer on when I go out.

Does Plex cost money?

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

So basically, Plex is like having personal Spotify service for ones own musical library?

Pretty much. And you can store your music in much higher quality and stream it in much higher quality that what Spotify provides. So if you want CD quality instead of MP3 quality you can do that with Plex. Plex also integrates with Tidal's Hi-Fi streaming service.

[TAC]

So basically, Plex is like having personal Spotify service for ones own musical library?

Pretty much. And you can store your music in much higher quality and stream it in much higher quality that what Spotify provides. So if you want CD quality instead of MP3 quality you can do that with Plex. Plex also integrates with Tidal's Hi-Fi streaming service.

Oh shit. What's Tidal?

[Stadler]

I just can't really understand the usefulness. Seems like a lot of work to play the odd album that isn't on Spotify. Plus, I have to leave my computer on when I go out.

Does Plex cost money?

For me, who is perhaps more unreasonably particular, I get to access all my mods and edits.  I will go in and edit my live albums to take out fades, for example.   I will sometimes reorder greatest hits into chronological order.  I will consolidate b-sides and non-album tracks into an "Anthology" album.   I'm almost chubbed up over the idea that I can plug my phone into my car cradle, and access every song I have on CD (that is now ripped to my network hard drive) and organized in my fashion, at will.   I might even opt for setting up a dedicated computer (that is on at all times) if need be.   

[TAC]

I guess. I think of the 1/2 hour or 45 minutes I drive to and from work and wonder why I'd need some specialized edited version right then and there. I can get it home after dinner.

I don't know. I don't go to the gym or listen to music when I work.

I will need a plan when my two iPod classics croak though.






How much does this Plex cost?