Music on to a hard drive
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I'm in the process of updating my home entertainment system :eek: and want to now put all my singles etc onto a hard drive . This can then sit on my network and play through my new 5.1 amp.
Question, which is the best HD and is there one or a software package that allows me to categorise my music into years, type etc?
Question, which is the best HD and is there one or a software package that allows me to categorise my music into years, type etc?
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So do you want something that can stand alone and do all the work by itself or something that uses your computer as the control interface?
I was in the same situation myself and looked at a number of options for transferring my CD collection to a hard drive system of some sort. What I settled on was the cocktailAudio X10 unit. It handles all the ripping of CDs, playing them and has a song database that you can use to sort by album, artist, song, genre etc.
Not cheap but a nice bit of kit, though it does have it's little quirks.
http://www.cocktailaudio.co.uk/
http://www.richersounds.com/product/wireless-streaming/cocktail-audio/x10-2tb/cock-audio-x10-2tb
You could use a smartphone with a DLNA client installed.
Or, if you want true hifi sound, you could invest in something like this:
http://www.richersounds.com/product/wireless-streaming/denon/dnp720ae/deno-dnp720-blk
(which, if you save your music files as either lossless WAV/FLAC/APE etc, or high-bitrate MP3/OGG/AAC+, will give you sound quality the equal of a fairly high-end CD player).
DLNA servers and clients generally have the ability to search on the ID3 tags attached to the stored music files, so you can search based on album/artist/year/genre etc etc.