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[jasonandamy95]

Hello all - new here.
You wouldn't believe the lack of resources that we have in our area for guidance on building our system!
We are wanting to build a system "just like we want it"...we have all but one component: a means of storing all of our CD's.
We chose the Anthony Gallo D'Adiva speakers (4), wired with the Gallo 100w sub as well as our Denon sub. We have the RF 62 towers (2) and the RF 52 center channel from Klipsch for the front of our 7.1 system. My husband just thought that he needed more bass....even in our mid to late thirties, we love to crank up some Godsmack, GNR, Alice in Chains. That's why we added the Klipsch towers. We got the Denon AVR 2310CI receiver, which has not yet arrived - should be here this week.... Whew, all that to say: we loved the feature of the Bose Lifestyles system, in which you could load all of your CD's to scroll on the system to play. We know that something like this component exists, but have no idea where to look or what it is called. The receiver won't be hooked to the internet, and we don't have an ipod.....any suggestions?

 

[Adam]

Welcome to the forum!

Are you wanting a system that can physically hold all of your CDs (like a mega CD changer) or simply store all of the music from your CDs? Both are available. Several people here store all of their music on hard drives or flash drives (either on a PC, an iPod, or something like the products offered by Escient). There are products that let you stream music from your PC to your stereo system, too.

 

[jasonandamy95]

Thanks Adam!

I don't want a huge cd changer...I was looking for something to load/copy all of my cd's into, and plug into the TV or receiver to be able to choose a CD to play. I just don't know what to look for...I won't have a computer accessable to the receiver. Any ideas will help!

 

[Adam]

Hopefully others will chime in here. I know that other members have done this, but I haven't. You can definitely do what you want to do, though. Maybe give people here a little time, as it is a holiday and a lot of people are out doing things right now. In the meantime, you can search this forum (and other places on the internet) for ideas.

BTW, congrats on the new system! I bet that you're looking forward to getting that Denon. I was looking at maybe getting that myself about a month ago. That's a nice receiver.

 

[Adam]

Bump. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[TLS Guy]

Hello all - new here.
You wouldn't believe the lack of resources that we have in our area for guidance on building our system!
We are wanting to build a system "just like we want it"...we have all but one component: a means of storing all of our CD's.
We chose the Anthony Gallo D'Adiva speakers (4), wired with the Gallo 100w sub as well as our Denon sub. We have the RF 62 towers (2) and the RF 52 center channel from Klipsch for the front of our 7.1 system. My husband just thought that he needed more bass....even in our mid to late thirties, we love to crank up some Godsmack, GNR, Alice in Chains. That's why we added the Klipsch towers. We got the Denon AVR 2310CI receiver, which has not yet arrived - should be here this week.... Whew, all that to say: we loved the feature of the Bose Lifestyles system, in which you could load all of your CD's to scroll on the system to play. We know that something like this component exists, but have no idea where to look or what it is called. The receiver won't be hooked to the internet, and we don't have an ipod.....any suggestions?

Probably the best thought out system is Logitech's Squeeze Box Transporter.

You will need to rip your CDs to your computer hard drive. However the device has a built in wireless Ethernet receiver.

You can download the user guide here.

To do what you want to do does not come cheap.

 

[jasonandamy95]

I found a solution...

Adam, Thanks for trying to get someone to respond!

I searched and searched, finally found a solution. It would have been expensive had I not ran across an AWESOME deal. BUT, in case anyone is interested in the same question - I will post the solution.

I purchased the Escient SE-80 Firefox. It will rip your CD's on its own drive - you can also store TONS of your CD's and make completely custom CD's from the whole CD library.
It has an Ethernet port - my husband is going to run the Ethernet cable to our modem. You get FREE internet radio. The system downloads the album cover and song list to your TV screen for your playlist. It has an awesome onscreen display. We actually saw it in action at a local audio store, but didn't know what it was at the time.
If you choose not to run the cable, you can also use an ethernet bridge device instead of running the cable.

So, it can be done....

Adam, keep making everyone welcome! Hope to speak with you again!

 

[Davemcc]

Sorry I didn't see this sooner. I'm sure that you will love the Escient Fireball. It's an older product now and there are some great deals out there to be had. I'm glad you found one. The Fireball will also allow you to burn your CD's at 128, 192 or 320 kbps depending on the quality you want to store your files with. There's a lot of customizable skins for the display to match your room decor which is good when it's on the big screen TV in a living room. There's also a few tricks to get Gracenotes to find album covers that it doesn't find automatically. Also, if you have a computer network, you can do a simple file transfer of all your CD's into your computer and then convert them to MP3.

We use the Fireball so much it simply incredible. We have about 6,000 songs on ours and it's still less than 1/2 full. If you have any questions about the Fireball's setup or features, just ask. I'll ask my wife how it works. (It's really her toy.)

 

[AVRat]

So Dave, which model do you have? I may have to take a better look at the SE-80 as an option for my CD playback. My Kenwood jukebox took a dump a while back and I've been looking for options other than adding another Sony jukebox. Although my current unit is 14 years old and never had a problem. I'm looking at some gear shelf changes and these jukeboxes aren't exactly shallow.

 

[Davemcc]

I have the SE-80. It really works well and it's pretty much glitch and bug free. It takes about five minutes per disc for the Fireball to rip a CD, but you only have to do it once. Once it's digitized, you can just file transfer to a computer and convert to MP3 or iTunes and back up the whole library. This is much better than any device that mechanically transports CD's for playback. My CD's have been boxed up in a closet for well over a year now and I can't see any reason to pull them out again in the near future.

 

[TLS Guy]

This device is interesting, but as far as i can tell only supports lossy codecs. So it can not be considered a CD storage device. CDs stream at 1440 KBS.

It seems to me the squeezebox is the better value.

I would not want to compress my CD collection and try and store it on 80 GB!

 

[adwilk]

If you don't have a bluray player, I would highly suggest a PS3... I save all my music on an external hdd and use the PS3 for playback... I can't complain.. you can set up playlists and it manages the library fairly well. Oh, and you'll have a nice Bluray player media streamer.

 

[AVRat]

Vann's is selling the Escient MX-111 for $900. Just pulled the trigger! Now I have to look into Broadband!

 

[cjsiv]

2nd the ps3 option. I have a 320 gig hard drive in mine and use it for my media center....and you get bluray.