Home made CD's - ripped to play on UNITI

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Originally posted by djh1697:
Quick question
It is merely for convenience, I have some home made CD compilations ripped from LP's.

Will a Uniti play these if they are in WAV format?

I propose a directory with an artist, the next the album name, then the track.

i.e.
\BLUE NILE\HIGH\BECAUSE OF TOLEDO
\ARTIST\ALBUM\TRACK NAME

My guess would be that the CD would have to be proper Redbook audio CD and not a data CD with audio files.

You could of course just put the audio files on a USB stick and play them like that.

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aleg

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Originally posted by Aleg:
My guess would be that the CD would have to be proper Redbook audio CD and not a data CD with audio files.

You could of course just put the audio files on a USB stick and play them like that.

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aleg

The CD's play on a standard Philips CD373, on the market well before CDR's where available, who knows ? What is the difference between files stored on a USB stick or a NAS drive? How about a USB hard drive?

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Originally posted by djh1697:

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Originally posted by Aleg:
My guess would be that the CD would have to be proper Redbook audio CD and not a data CD with audio files.

You could of course just put the audio files on a USB stick and play them like that.

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aleg

The CD's play on a standard Philips CD373, on the market well before CDR's where available, who knows ?

You can try it yourself easily of course, but I noticed Uniti specs say Redbook and that has a different structure on the CD then when you make a data disk with audiofiles in a directory structure.

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What is the difference between files stored on a USB stick or a NAS drive?

Not so much in that case apart from having to have a network connection of sufficient bandwidth when using a NAS. I'm not sure if Uniti can directly access network shares or if it can only access a NAS through UPnP streaming. In the first case you would require Samba which is always available on a NAS and inthe second case you would require some streaming server which is also often present on a NAS.

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How about a USB hard drive?

Not much difference to a USB stick, just larger.

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aleg

When I rip a redbook CD to my NAS drive, the file/directory structure is
\MUSIC\BLUE NILE\BECAUSE OF TOLEDO.WAV
When I rip a homemade CD to my NAS drive the file/directory is
\MUSIC\BLUE NILE\BECAUSE OF TOLEDO.WAV
The only difference is i have renamed the file myself, so why would it not work ?

When you rip a Redbook CD to Hard disk it is no longer a redbook CD, it is now individual WAV files - CD's do not use WAV format (although it is a matter of similarity) but instead it is CDDA..

Do a search of wikipedia and all will be explained.

A CD player that is expecting a redbook CD to read from may not read a bunch of WAV files not matter how you organise them...although some may..