Have Uniiserve HD - but thinking ahead...

Posted by: PBenny1066 on 22 September 2011

I have a US HD which I am very happy with, and have circa 750 CDs lovingly ripped onto the internal HD. But thinking ahead 2-3 years, I will probably want to move the whole lot to a NAS. I don't have on yet, but will probably get one. My question is - will it simply be a matter of copying the whole US library across to the NAS ? Or wil be there be problems with tagging, meta data etc.?

Have read much about rips, tagging, Twonky etc on this forum which I don't fully understand.

Thoughts gratefully received..

Paul

Posted on: 22 September 2011 by Manu

It will just be a simple process of copying from one disk to the NAS. It may take about 16 hours for 750 CDs with a regular network.

Posted on: 22 September 2011 by PBenny1066

Manu, many thanks, seems like I was worrying over nothing.

I have some his res dowmloads which are currently on USB sticks, presumably these could be copied to the NAS too, in a separate folder ?

Am I also correct in thinking that the Hi Res music can't be added to the US Hard disk ? Just wondering, because when looknat the US hard disk using my Mac, I see three subfolders, HQ, MQ, and LQ, with all the CD rips in the MQ folder, and the other two folders empty.

Cheers, Paul

Posted on: 22 September 2011 by Tylercoupe

Not sure if we will ever use the other 2 folders but I am guessing the file structure was set as MQ=medium quality, HQ=high Quality and low quality

Posted on: 25 September 2011 by Bart

Originally Posted by PBenny1066:

I am in the same situation. I can access the uServe (it appears as a network drive) and can copy from it, but the metadata won't be there, right? So if I move away from the uServe solution in a few years I have to deal with (re)tagging all of those wav files . . . not so sure how to do that efficiently.