Online music playback
Discussion
Hi all. I've decided to finally move away from CDs and build up an online collection.
Anyway, my first problem is what to store them on and how to play them back. I have a NAS drive which I use for storage of family photos and videos, and I have a have an amp which seems to have 'Music Server' connectivity (Denon RCD-N7) but I've never used that functionality.
But then there's the UI. Is there such a thing as an IOS app which could get them talking to each other? I've heard of people talking about Plex, but googling it, it looks quite complicated. I can't possibly use the amp to control playback as the screen is tiny and to navigate through menus on the NAS drive would be a nightmare.
My final question relate to quality. I want to have high quality, am I going to lose quality playing via wifi? I hear that Bluetooth compresses the file quality to below mp3 quality? I don't want to have any less quality that I have from my current CDs.
Thanks all for any help/advice.
ETA - I've just seen that my amp supports Airplay, so I might have answered my own question! i.e. I store the music on my iphone and just airplay from that. Only 1 question then, what quality is Airplay and will getting them on my iphone in the first place be a problem in FLAC format?
Anyway, my first problem is what to store them on and how to play them back. I have a NAS drive which I use for storage of family photos and videos, and I have a have an amp which seems to have 'Music Server' connectivity (Denon RCD-N7) but I've never used that functionality.
But then there's the UI. Is there such a thing as an IOS app which could get them talking to each other? I've heard of people talking about Plex, but googling it, it looks quite complicated. I can't possibly use the amp to control playback as the screen is tiny and to navigate through menus on the NAS drive would be a nightmare.
My final question relate to quality. I want to have high quality, am I going to lose quality playing via wifi? I hear that Bluetooth compresses the file quality to below mp3 quality? I don't want to have any less quality that I have from my current CDs.
Thanks all for any help/advice.
ETA - I've just seen that my amp supports Airplay, so I might have answered my own question! i.e. I store the music on my iphone and just airplay from that. Only 1 question then, what quality is Airplay and will getting them on my iphone in the first place be a problem in FLAC format?
Edited by audi321 on Tuesday 8th May 20:36
miniman said:
What do you want to listen to that isn't available on Spotify?
I don't really want to pay a monthly subscription when I have most of the music I want on CD or I will buy the track/albums from somewhere like itunes.Not a fan of paying monthly and never owning the music - basically I want to be able to have my music forever.
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