Home Entertainment Center

 I have replaced the two boxless bookshelf speakers I was using with a Polk Audio center speaker module. I bought the unit from a Facebook-Marketplace seller. He wanted $20. I agreed. When we met, however, I noticed the back of the unit was scruffy and scratched. He accepted $15. The unit worked as soon as I plugged it in. Model: TL 2 CEN CH black. This makes a total of six speaker units. I could use a couple of small bookshelf speakers on the ceiling. Perhaps a couple of quality computer speakers would do.

   The hardware set is much the same. The most recent addition is the Surround Center speaker I constructed from two open back bookcase speakers.    I have moved the Asus X510UAR into the server position. There was a pixellation problem with some videos in VLC but help from a web poster gave me the tweak I needed to make the correction.    The server is Plex for Windows. I also maintain a Jellyfin server and may add simpleDLNA or miniDLNA for offline use. Both Plex and Jellyfin seem to require an internet connection to function.    I use RenameMyTVSeries to rename television series prior to adding metadata and adding to the servers' lists. Free software.    MetaX is the current metadata software. The app has problems but the functionality is unequalled by others, so far. Worth the ten dollar fee. I use the mkvtoolnix suite extensively, CMD and GUI. There is a grep alternative, ripgrep, that is much faster than the version in WSL Ubuntu l...