Naim Rips are GREAT! now how can I take them with me and play them?

Posted by: Audioneophyte on 12 August 2012

In the car? at a friends home, in my (as yet undetermined portable device)...

 

Dont tell me to take my US with me...  does anyone own a Naim car stereo deck or do I need to roll Bentley to get into one?

Posted on: 14 August 2012 by Phil Harris
Originally Posted by m0omo0:
 

Welcome. I wanted to add links but I couldn't find the specific posts. Better wait for Phil to chime in again just to be sure, but as I understand it, the USB sockets on the new Naim boxes are here only for convenience and were never really intended as the main way to play music files, though a few people seem to use them like that.

 

 

The USB ports on the servers and ND / Uniti products are really intended for use with solid state devices such as iPods and memory sticks ... we don't officially support USB hard discs as we have found that generally they are electrically quite noisy on the USB bus.

 

Cheers

 

Phil

Posted on: 14 August 2012 by winkyincanada
Originally Posted by endlessnessism: 

No good for the car.  I wonder why no-one produces something like those CD changers you used to see?  Instead of CDs you'd have a removable drive to which you could backup or replicate your music files, then slot-it-in and it would run off the car battery and feed the on-board system.  Maybe this already exists and I haven't yet seen it.  

They do. They're called iPods. We sync our 160GB classic (using transcoding to MP3 on the fly so we can get it all on) and then plug it into the car's stereo. We have our whole music collection in the car (albeit compressed, but that's just fine for the car, really).

Posted on: 14 August 2012 by garyi

My car has blue and me which is quite good, I got a 32gig stick and put on around 6000 songs, which is good in light of the amount of miles I do.

 

It will also connect ipods/pads etc.

Posted on: 14 August 2012 by Frank Abela

winky

 

That may be, but the iPod Classic sounds a dog's dinner in my opinion - flat, dull, lifeless and boring. I've had one for most of the year and went in to the Apple Store to ask if they knew of a way which I hadn't yet thought of to improve it, hoping for a 'you muppet, you've not switched on the beautifier' or something, but in fact got a 'yes, that sounds like an iPod Classic to me' which was somewhat soul destroying. I used to have a 2005 3rd gen iPod and with the exact same rips it sounded heaps better - I so wish I hadn't lost it!

 

As a gesture of goodwill, they swapped out my iPod Classic with a new one. I'll see how it goes, but I don't expect it to be any better given the volume manufacture of this product. I'll then have to decide what to do.

 

Incidentally, I also compared it with a friend's iPod Touch with a worse rip of the same track and the Touch was substantially better, but that's limited to 64GB which would defintiely mean data reduction techniques.

 

Regards,
Frank.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect the opinion of any organisations I work for, except where this is stated explicitly.

Posted on: 14 August 2012 by Frank Abela

Phil,

 

Just MP3? No AAC? MP3 has such dreadful pre-echo it just sounds like a blurred mess by comparison - even at 320kbps in my view.

 

Regards,
Frank.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect the opinion of any organisations I work for, except where this is stated explicitly.

Posted on: 14 August 2012 by m0omo0
Originally Posted by Phil Harris:
dbpoweramp is capable of doing a multiple format rip ... We will be working slightly differently in that the rip will still be in a lossless format (WAV) and then there will be a separate (optional) encoding pass that will encode to a compressed format (CBR MP3) for use with portable devices...

Oh ! For any deity of your choice's sake Phil, please tell me Naim are not going to do this ! Please tell me FLAC or ALAC is going to be an option instead of MP3 ! I can't believe it...

Posted on: 14 August 2012 by spartacus
Originally Posted by m0omo0:
Originally Posted by Phil Harris:
dbpoweramp is capable of doing a multiple format rip ... We will be working slightly differently in that the rip will still be in a lossless format (WAV) and then there will be a separate (optional) encoding pass that will encode to a compressed format (CBR MP3) for use with portable devices...

Oh ! For any deity of your choice's sake Phil, please tell me Naim are not going to do this ! Please tell me FLAC or ALAC is going to be an option instead of MP3 ! I can't believe it...

Or AIFF!! When I set up my Mac Mini I chose AIFF because I can move my rips straight out of iTunes onto my iPhone for potability without having to mess about transcoding to other formats. I may just buy a Naim streamer then instead of just the Naim DAC.

Posted on: 14 August 2012 by m0omo0

Indeed spartacus ! ALAC or AIFF would be the easiest for use with iTunes. FLAC would suit me as well, but any lossless format would be OK.

 

Good to know I'm not alone

Maurice

Posted on: 14 August 2012 by engjoo

If you want the music files to be stored on your portable devices, I will use dbpoweramp to batch convert the files into MP3 before transferring them onto your devices.

 

My way of doing is I have a synology NAS which I am able to access remotely (yes, you need to set up portforwarding, DDNS etc) via ihpne Synology's DS Audio apps and you can access your home music library anywhere you are so long as you have internet access.