JJZolx;314462 Wrote: > ...I was reminded once again of how much nicer it is to browse through a > wall full of actual CDs instead of using one of the Squeeze > interfaces...
What a strange idea. For me, storage and browsing is the main problem with CDs, they take up wall space that we don't have and wouldn't want to cover in CDs anyway. Personally, I find them a pain to browse through - squinting at the tiny writing on the spine. Getting them in and out of the case is a fiddle and getting the booklet in and out threatens to destroy the booklet and/or case which would eventually disintegrate of its own accord anyway. I am still in the process of ripping my CD collection (only 50 to go...) and so am constantly reminded how much I -hate- CDs! The CD was such a backward step from vinyl LPs which are a joy to handle by comparison and actually take up less wall space than CDs if you have a large collection. I find it *much* easier than either CDs or LPs to browse through my server based music collection using the Duet controller. And we can save the wall space for art, photographs or books. I always browse using the "music folder" option and am very careful to save my CDs as \genre\band(or composer)\album\track.flac. That makes it a doddle to find whatever I want. If I want to randomly browse I just do that using the "albums" option on the controller which obviously mixes up classical, jazz, rock and pop in alphabetical order by album name - which is totally random! -- TheLastMan Matt SB Duet, Synology Diskstation 107+ with FW 2.0-0600 SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 and SSODS 3 beta 13. Naim 72/HiCap/140 amp, B&W CM2 speakers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49169 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
