Starting from Ground Zero

MGOwner · 13 February 2017 20:22

I reckon I could have CDS which are not on Tidal or any other streaming service

browellm · 13 February 2017 20:23

Yeah, but you wouldn’t ever want to play them :D.

MGOwner · 13 February 2017 20:23

No ! Really ???

It’s never stopped you before…

htm_1968 · 13 February 2017 20:25

That is harsh but, on balance, fair.

malbec · 13 February 2017 20:37

I’ve got the Novafidelity X40. A very nice piece of kit, if a tad over ‘busy’ at times. It also has the benefit of a decent ADC for archiving you records.

MGOwner · 13 February 2017 20:55

That looks a bit spendy compared with the others mentioned.

Valvebloke · 13 February 2017 20:58

There are some (surprisingly muddy) legal details here. I’ve lost track of what it’s currently legal to do when it comes to ripping your own CDs, and frankly as long as you keep the CDs it’s unlikely that anyone in authority is ever going to bother you over it. But if you were thinking of ripping and then selling, or even giving away, the original silver discs then you’d be in moral as well as (potentially) legal trouble. The loft is the obvious answer.

VB

AmDismal · 13 February 2017 21:02

It is, and it’s my answer, but it’s a fucking stupid answer.

malbec · 13 February 2017 21:09

I agree. If I was to go back in time I would probably go for a cheap laptop and the Vortexbox route

Gyroscope · 13 February 2017 21:44

Much sense here - tweak it at source, it’ll only annoy you later I.e. dbPoweramp and a PC.

Gyroscope · 13 February 2017 21:47

Also much sense here. Granted there might be some niche stuff that’s not on Tidal or Spotify, but how much? Try it for a couple of months?

Ripping an entire collection properly costs a great deal of time. Is it worth it?

cobbler · 13 February 2017 22:06

Mark, do you know if Tidal works with Transporter running lms off a Synology nas. Spotify has never worked for me with this set up.

browellm · 13 February 2017 22:13

Yes, you just need to install ickstream for it to work.

cobbler · 13 February 2017 22:15

Cheers, would this cure spotify?

browellm · 13 February 2017 22:17

Don’t think they have Spotify integration.

Are you trying to get it going with the community app? I thought that supported the old players.

cobbler · 13 February 2017 22:30

Tried both with no success, all was fine until I introduced the synology.

cobbler · 13 February 2017 22:32

Apoloigies for going off topic. I have a squeezebox touch you could borrow Terry if you wanted to try the squeezebox route.

MGOwner · 13 February 2017 22:34

Thanks. But how do you rip your CDs ?

cobbler · 13 February 2017 22:38

I started just ripping to a pc with external hard drive for back up. This will work with squeezebox.

I then moved to a nas drive.

mickbald · 13 February 2017 22:42

What I did was load iTunes, point it to the location you want to save to, set it to import immediately in ALCA (lossless) and load a CD. Have a cuppa. Repeat.

Download metadata.

Play.

All steps from drop down menu’s in iTunes.