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In Reply to: RE: Moving all CDs to network drive..advice? posted by DWPC on May 05, 2015 at 09:37:03
I used dBpoweramp to rip all my CDs to FLAC. When you buy it, it comes with some temporary licenses for metadata servers which are helpful when you're ripping lots of CDs at once. Two pieces of advice for ripping: First, figure out what folder structure you want before you start ripping. Second, pay attention to the metadata it pulls down. In my case, about 10% of my jazz, rock, pop, and electronic CDs needed some manual metadata corrections for accuracy or consistency and most of my classical CDs. It is much easier to make these corrections while you're ripping en masse than to go back and fix it all later.
All of my family's media is on a NAS. Not just music but all our photos, videos, DVDs, personal folders, email archives, and important records and data. I run Twonky Server on the NAS and serve up media via DLNA to a bunch of clients. Via Ethernet: 2 Linn DS boxes, an Oppo 103, a Marantz AV8801, and a Pioneer N-30. Via Wi-Fi: A Roku 3 and Pioneer A3 wireless portable speaker.
Which Sony Blu-Ray player? I had a Sony BDP-S380 that advertised DLNA capability but it was only a DLNA player, not a DLNA renderer so it could not be controlled via a UPnP control point app. I had to use the TV and it's network/media discovery and menus. Also, it wouldn't recognize FLAC or a lot of common video containers, so it was pretty well useless for network playback. I gave away the Sony when I moved and got the Oppo 103 which handles a much wider variety of formats and it's a DLNA renderer so it can be controlled by a UPnP control point app on my phone or tablet. But for music playback it's still clunky compared to dedicated music streamer, especially one that supports OpenHome. I only use the Oppo's DLNA capabilities for displaying photos on the TV or playing ripped DVDs.
If your Sony is not a DLNA renderer than I would encourage you to get a dedicated music streamer. You'll want the control point functionality, you'll probably want AirPlay, and maybe some music streaming services too. Support for the OpenHome extensions (e.g. on-device playlists, gapless, etc.) is also a big plus over standard DLNA, but the cheapest option I've seen with OpenHome support is the Auralic Aries. If you have a cheaper, more vanilla DLNA renderer then you should consider installing BubbleUPnP Server.
Another piece of advice is to figure out what you're going to do for backups now. Even though you have the CDs, you should still back up the ripped files because you don't want to go through the labor of ripping again if a drive fails.
I have a NAS which supports folder duplication and hot swapping, so it can tolerate a failed drive without having to take the NAS down and restore from backup. I also do an automated full non-incremental weekly backup of all the important data to an external drive (basically everything but the DVD rips). And there are two external drive backups actually, one onsite and one offsite at my Dad's place. I rotate these when I visit. I don't want to lose 25 years of data and a lifetime of photos if there's a fire.
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My network drive is an Iomega that's a few years old. I find no mention of DLNA in the manual but the Sony BDP590 (DNLA renderer) recognizes it .wav files on the net drive though not FLAC.
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The Iomega drives are advertised as having a DLNA server. Internet posts suggest it's Twonky. If so, you should be able to access its configuration page by connecting to port 9000 or 50599, i.e.:
http://192.168.X.Y:9000
http://192.168.X.Y:50599
Where 192.168.X.Y is the IP address of the NAS drive.
comprehensive advice/read, at least for this computer vet in progress of mating a legacy audio system within a DLNA/UPnP based HT system.
And good luck.
DLNA can be a mine field. Good implementations/combinations can be slick to use, but others can be clumsy, and others practically unworkable. But it's great to have a standard like DLNA rather than being locked into one vendor & product line.
And it is so nice to have one library that I can access from any system or playback device, and control from any phone, tablet, or computer that happens to be handy. I can't imagine trying to manually keep multiple copies of a music library up to date on multiple hard drives.
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