Good thread. I still buy CDs, and will continue to do so until the stuff I like is available as a lossless DRM free download. So for me that's loads of Americana (for want of a better word) - Bon Iver, Silver Jews; stuff like that.
For the moment the best quality I can get is ripping it myself. As soon as there's a good download solution for all my tastes CDs are gone from my life. TBH things the quality of the Amazon service would be fine for my amp/speakers, but at least I know I've made my rips as future-proof as possible doing them bit-perfect lossless. Agree with the comment about finding it easier to find things on a server based system - I love being able to put all 15,000 of my tracks on random, I love all of the internet radio I can get for free with my SB3, I'm very excited about MIP / LastFM radio & scrobbling which are my next things to play with! Can't do that on a CD player. I did a big move round on the PC t'other day. SB3 was off for a couple of hours while I shuttled files around. My wife desired music. She used the CD player, and I realised that was the first time it had been switched on in about 4 years, since I got my first box, an MP101 (I know, I didn't know any better...) As for putting the movie collection on the server, AppleTV is a fantastic solution. I don't want to wait 2 minutes while the DVD menu loads. I don't (personally) want all of the extras/menus. I want the film, which is where AppleTV wins out for me. iTMS is great when used with AppleTV for movies and TV shows. Same DRM restrictions as for music, of course, which may or may not be a problem depending on what else you'll use your films for. For me, it's great. TBH if you're ripping your DVDs you could always rip them to MPEG and have a dupe library of MPEG-4 / your format of choice. 1TB drives are down to about £90 in the UK now, so the server approach, at least for me, is the way to go for everything I listen to or watch. -- moley6knipe Win XP Pro SP3 > dBpoweramp Reference 13.1 > SqueezeCenter 7.1 > 2 x Squeezebox 3 > ears ------------------------------------------------------------------------ moley6knipe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10014 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50035
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