Itune reading HDX files

Storage is independent of presentation - a relational search for Robert Plant as person will pull up all relevant credits (composer / performer / artist / engineer / soloist etc.) across the entire media library, including tagged files on network shares. Same for Alison Kraus.

I understand the reasoning and the discussion here has been very informative.

I would like to ask how Naim is organising this for the new SSD products which rip to a customer NAS. Traditionally a NAS is viewed as a user configurable storage solution which is 'open' and can be organised by the user to acheive the sort of requests this discussion has been about in what ever folder structure they choose to implement. For example actively filing in subfolders personally identified by such as "Classical Violin", "Jazz Piano" etc and which could include a folder called "For MP3 conversion"?


regards
Geoff

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Originally posted by Geoff P:
I understand the reasoning and the discussion here has been very informative.

I would like to ask how Naim is organising this for the new SSD products which rip to a customer NAS. Traditionally a NAS is viewed as a user configurable storage solution which is 'open' and can be organised by the user to acheive the sort of requests this discussion has been about in what ever folder structure they choose to implement. For example actively filing in subfolders personally identified by such as "Classical Violin", "Jazz Piano" etc and which could include a folder called "For MP3 conversion"?


regards
Geoff

I think, but don't know from actual experience, that this is where the difference between a Music Store (where Naim puts its own rips, but still can be on a NAS) and a Network Share (also a section on a NAS) comes into play.

My guess is that Naim uses for its own Music Stores a specific folder-structure, but maybe doesn't care much about folder structure on the Network Shares.

So I would think you can organise your Network Shares as you prefer, but that you won't have anything to say about how Naim organises its own Music Stores.

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aleg

quote:

Originally posted by Geoff P:
I understand the reasoning and the discussion here has been very informative.

I would like to ask how Naim is organising this for the new SSD products which rip to a customer NAS. Traditionally a NAS is viewed as a user configurable storage solution which is 'open' and can be organised by the user to acheive the sort of requests this discussion has been about in what ever folder structure they choose to implement. For example actively filing in subfolders personally identified by such as "Classical Violin", "Jazz Piano" etc and which could include a folder called "For MP3 conversion"?

The Naim servers utilize two distinct types of network sharepoints:

1) Network Shares - these are user-managed and can contain any type of file, folder structure, etc. that you can throw at it.

2) Music Stores - these are actively managed by the server for CD rips and should be left alone.

Generally, if you do use a fair bit of tagged files with embedded artwork, I'd probably just toss these into separate folders by genre (for example) and create separate sharepoints as Network Shares.

FLACs lacking embedded artwork can be stored hierarchically by Artist with a folder.jpg file placed into the Album folder.

By the way–all Music Stores start life as a Network Share, before being elevated to active management by the server.

This same hierarchy carries over to the servers' UPnP browsing by device, by the way–with a Naim server functioning as a UPnP server, one can access files organized within specific sharepoints on the NAS for playback via a UPnP player / renderer (Uniti products, Linn DS, &c.)

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Originally posted by David Dever:
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FLACs lacking embedded artwork can be stored hierarchically by Artist with a folder.jpg file placed into the Album folder.
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FLACs can also contain album art.
I have no issues with that.

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aleg

This is one of my first posts so please excuse if I get stuff wrong.

I have had an HDX for some time and glad to see 1.5 upgrades. I also have a Kaleidescape system with movies and music which I had before the HDX. Kaleidescape ripped music can be seen by i-Tunes and creates its own folder complete with music and artwork - I can then take music with me on the move. I'm pretty sure they have very worried lawyers based on the space they work in and they seem to still be able to make music seen by i-Tunes. I have no technical idea how this works but if they are able to do this why not the HDX?

Just thought I would point this out as someone more technically capable may be able to look at how the Kaleiscape system can make all music files/ artwork available to i-Tunes (and run as an automatic feature as well!)
Cheers,
Maca