42 year old techie here, listen primarily to streaming music (pandora, spotify, www.di.fm etc), but have a legacy collection of about 500+ CD's that I would like to rip and make accessible to my networked AV stuff. Several of my components offer a 'network' option, which will let me browse to a file location.
NOTE: I don't care about streaming video, this is JUST for music streaming.
Hardware I have is: Pioneer 1225 A/V receiver (this was the Costco deal from a couple years back). XboxOne, Panasonic BDT-215 Blu-ray player, Oppo BD83 DVD player. Speakers are a mixed bag of hardware. Nothing worth getting excited about. All works well.
So onto my Questions:
1. What to rip the music with? Itunes and Windows media both offer 'lossless' options. I have a bunch of music in Itunes already. Stick with what I have or is there a better tool?
2. Should I be using a NAS or stick with the PC I have? My PC has lots of space, as I have a drive (not primary, just a tertiary storage drive) with 1TB of space available.
3. Should I be using a software to serve up the music? I have seen alot of noise about PLEX.
Other suggestions?
NOTE: I don't care about streaming video, this is JUST for music streaming.
Hardware I have is: Pioneer 1225 A/V receiver (this was the Costco deal from a couple years back). XboxOne, Panasonic BDT-215 Blu-ray player, Oppo BD83 DVD player. Speakers are a mixed bag of hardware. Nothing worth getting excited about. All works well.
So onto my Questions:
1. What to rip the music with? Itunes and Windows media both offer 'lossless' options. I have a bunch of music in Itunes already. Stick with what I have or is there a better tool?
2. Should I be using a NAS or stick with the PC I have? My PC has lots of space, as I have a drive (not primary, just a tertiary storage drive) with 1TB of space available.
3. Should I be using a software to serve up the music? I have seen alot of noise about PLEX.
Other suggestions?