All,
i'm preparing for moving to some kind of streaming solution, eg. sonos, linn, or cyrus if it launches in time. I'm struggling with the best way to organise my music collection on the nas.
I have all my cds ripped to flac. I also have mp3 versions of these (converted by foobar2000) that i've added to iTunes (so i can sync to the ipod and other portables). I also have a bunch of mp3s i've downloaded from various places. Essentially i have
x:musiciTunes
x:musicflac
So i don't have a single place where i can get all my music in whatever format is 'best'. iTunes has it all, but not always at it's highest quality, and 'flac' has only a subset. Of course i could create a third, 'master' directory which has it mixed up - flac when available, mp3 when not, but that seems like an administrative nightmare i could live without. I could just go for ditching flac in favour of apple lossless, and then itunes becomes that single repository, but i'm not a big fan of finding myself locked into a proprietary format.
Any suggestions from those that are already dealing with this?
Thanks
i'm preparing for moving to some kind of streaming solution, eg. sonos, linn, or cyrus if it launches in time. I'm struggling with the best way to organise my music collection on the nas.
I have all my cds ripped to flac. I also have mp3 versions of these (converted by foobar2000) that i've added to iTunes (so i can sync to the ipod and other portables). I also have a bunch of mp3s i've downloaded from various places. Essentially i have
x:musiciTunes
x:musicflac
So i don't have a single place where i can get all my music in whatever format is 'best'. iTunes has it all, but not always at it's highest quality, and 'flac' has only a subset. Of course i could create a third, 'master' directory which has it mixed up - flac when available, mp3 when not, but that seems like an administrative nightmare i could live without. I could just go for ditching flac in favour of apple lossless, and then itunes becomes that single repository, but i'm not a big fan of finding myself locked into a proprietary format.
Any suggestions from those that are already dealing with this?
Thanks