mass strorage, filing, highend quality

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"Dale" <drdale_com@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I got a Sony 985 400 disc player. It doesn't identify most CD names, track
> titles etc, requires tedious hand input that is very limited. I checked
> most
> other mega disk players and they are the same they can't identify track
> titles on most disks it requires a connection to the net like ipods and
> mp3
> players. My Ipod works better. It get album info and every track title
> online and stores it and I can select playlists etc, OK you know about
> Ipods.
> Is there a way to get the same thing in a high end audio system? A
> megadisk
> player that can use an internet connection to catalog all the disks.
> The only way I can figure to do it is rip every one of my 500 CDs to my PC
> in something like ITunes, saved at the highest quality possible like wav
> files, then output via audio cable from my PC down to my living room amp.
> (quality limited by soundcard) controlling playlists and such from the PC.
> So is there some system that can organize a huge collection and easily
> make
> playlists with CD quality sound retained?
> The Pioneer, Denon, etc all work like the Sony and can't identify or file
> tracks.
>
> Dale
>

I have the same situation, so far have about 400 cd's ripped to itunes out
of a collection of 3500. Plus I have another 4000 CD and LP on DAT and open
reel. There is no good way to do this. I thought about stacking up 400 disc
machines and using a computer to identify the discs since I do have all the
data in a database system.

In actaulity, I spend so much time adding LP's and CD's to my library, I
don't often go back and listen to the stuff I already have, so the cd's are
all in the file cabinets (without the jewel cases) in numerical order. When
i play something, it's usually whatever is lying about the desk waiting to
be cataloged...

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Ban wrote:

> Dale wrote:
>> I got a Sony 985 400 disc player. It doesn't identify most CD names,
>> track titles etc, requires tedious hand input that is very limited. I
>> checked most other mega disk players and they are the same they can't
>> identify track titles on most disks it requires a connection to the
>> net like ipods and mp3 players. My Ipod works better. It get album
>> info and every track title online and stores it and I can select
>> playlists etc, OK you know about Ipods.
>> Is there a way to get the same thing in a high end audio system? A
>> megadisk player that can use an internet connection to catalog all
>> the disks.
>> The only way I can figure to do it is rip every one of my 500 CDs to
>> my PC in something like ITunes, saved at the highest quality possible
>> like wav files, then output via audio cable from my PC down to my
>> living room amp. (quality limited by soundcard) controlling playlists
>> and such from the PC. So is there some system that can organize a
>> huge collection and easily make playlists with CD quality sound
>> retained?
>> The Pioneer, Denon, etc all work like the Sony and can't identify or
>> file tracks.
>
> The problem is with the CD standard, that doesn't allow individual tags
> like an MP3 file. But a ripper like EAC or Nero can retrieve information
> from an Internet data bank and store the ripped songs under the file named
> by title. You can make folders with the artist name and subfolders with
> the album title by hand.
if you store and play off your pc i recommend ogg or flac format for their
higher fidelity and because they are free as in speech and free as in free
beer also!!