Hi all, please excuse my ignorance but I'm looking for help on some questions;
I have a fair bit of music on my pc, recorded from all sorts of sources, including vinyl where I've either been too tight to buy the CD (joke!) or it just isn't available on CD. It's organised in WMP so it's in album / track order with sleeve art. As I've gone from pc to pc and WMP version to later versions it's been a fight to maintain the "catalog" which describes the music as M'Soft don't provide any sort of export /import facility. I'd like to "set it free" and make it accessible to my hifi - Cyrus CD8 & 8 amp with Dynaudio Audience 42 speakers.I'd also like to add my CD collection to it so that it is all in one place.
"Set it free" means put it on a disk and attach the disk to the back of a "device". I don't want to have to turn on a pc to listen to music. NAS and server would be second choice but an acceptable compromise. Then attach the "device" to the Cyrus amp and use the device remote to select & play music.
Q1. Is that what Squeezebox & Sonos do? Sorry but I'm finding their web pages to be rather "marketing led". Lot's of pretty pictures, graphics etc and not a lot of meat, especially the Logitech site.
Q2 If I rip my CDs to disc am I going to lose the sort of quallty I'm used to from the Cyrus CD player?
Q3 Where do you get high quality digital music from? I know Linn sell this but, well, have you looked at what they have on offer? It's not exactly Dire Straits. :-(
Q4 Would I be better off handing my music over to iTunes rather than letting WMP manage it? Does iTunes allow easy migration of your music collection from pc to pc?
Phew! I didn't know I had so many questions when I started typing this. An indication of my ignorance I suppose. It seems to be an area where you can spend a lot of money (well that's hifi I guess!). Maybe it's not mature and I should wait? I definitely need to buy next month's WHF and read the NAS article.
Thanks,
John
I have a fair bit of music on my pc, recorded from all sorts of sources, including vinyl where I've either been too tight to buy the CD (joke!) or it just isn't available on CD. It's organised in WMP so it's in album / track order with sleeve art. As I've gone from pc to pc and WMP version to later versions it's been a fight to maintain the "catalog" which describes the music as M'Soft don't provide any sort of export /import facility. I'd like to "set it free" and make it accessible to my hifi - Cyrus CD8 & 8 amp with Dynaudio Audience 42 speakers.I'd also like to add my CD collection to it so that it is all in one place.
"Set it free" means put it on a disk and attach the disk to the back of a "device". I don't want to have to turn on a pc to listen to music. NAS and server would be second choice but an acceptable compromise. Then attach the "device" to the Cyrus amp and use the device remote to select & play music.
Q1. Is that what Squeezebox & Sonos do? Sorry but I'm finding their web pages to be rather "marketing led". Lot's of pretty pictures, graphics etc and not a lot of meat, especially the Logitech site.
Q2 If I rip my CDs to disc am I going to lose the sort of quallty I'm used to from the Cyrus CD player?
Q3 Where do you get high quality digital music from? I know Linn sell this but, well, have you looked at what they have on offer? It's not exactly Dire Straits. :-(
Q4 Would I be better off handing my music over to iTunes rather than letting WMP manage it? Does iTunes allow easy migration of your music collection from pc to pc?
Phew! I didn't know I had so many questions when I started typing this. An indication of my ignorance I suppose. It seems to be an area where you can spend a lot of money (well that's hifi I guess!). Maybe it's not mature and I should wait? I definitely need to buy next month's WHF and read the NAS article.
Thanks,
John