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The remote is top-notch, and well worth it IMHO. It's wifi, so no need for line of site; it can control every squeezebox in the house (I think), and the interface isn't bad.
edit: although, of course, the app would do pretty much the same!
As for cynic-al's various updates... It wound me up for a long time that SBs ship with such buggy firmware. This is properly built, marketed and sold kit, and yet the f/w seemed for a while to be a hobby project.
Thankfully it has improved, although the BBC app on mine is still a bit iffy.
grrr..... annoyingly youre right!! well, sort of. switched off, then on, tried, no good. did a rescan of my files and then it all works fine now 🙂
hope this doesnt happen too often tho. i really like it and dont want anything to change that. im looking forward to looking into all the apps as well. i can see myself getting a spotify account, but i want to walk before i can run 🙂
cheers
well, im sat here happily listening to 6music on the squeezebox, flitting between that and spotify, happy in my media castle 😀
im slowly ripping all my cds to flac on my laptop, when i had the thought that it may not be so straightforward to move them from laptop to the inevitable nas whenever i get it.
didnt want to get too far down the line before i realised this, so..... is it straightforward? would i just plug my laptop into the nas by some method and just copy and paste it all and sit back with a pint while its whirring away?
cheers
copying the files to the nas should be easy, either over the network if the nas is setup or pull the drives and put them in a usb hard drive caddy connected to your laptop.
thats the least of your worries 🙂
Simple as simple things can get in the world of IT. You connect to the drive (most brands such as Western Digital, Netgear, Buffalo etc...supply software that makes this simple) then copy n paste. If you want to keep the files on your laptop in sync with those on your NAS I advise Goodsync (Google it), it'll keep the folders in sync and only copy across new additions.
thanks a lot, ill carry on then 🙂
got a fair few done already, but for some reason i still get a few failures. shows the albums are ripped, but says there was a problem and each track is about 40kb. ill try those ones again and see if its just hit and miss, or if theres a prob with the cd's. using mediamonkey for it.
ta.
Try using EAC instead- I used it for 400-odd disks and it seems to have done a very good job.
started off with that mate, but it didnt recognise any of my cd's so they were all anonymous, plus it ripped to wav then i had to convert wav to flac. seemed a bit of a rave when mediamonkey does it all. recognises the cd's and rips straight to flac.
thanks for the recommendation tho.