Advice on Parallel collections - Lossless and 128kbps - 320kbps

Posted by: Alonso on 29 November 2009

Hi Guys... I need your thoughts here

Last week the dreaded 'oops!-I-deleted-all-my-music-files' event took place. The good news is that I had all the music I had downloaded, whether from blogs or bought in itunes backed up in optical drives. Sadly, I had no back up for my lossless files (ripped from my own cds) besides the original CD's themselves.

As I type I am re-ripping all my CDs (about 250) to my NAS drive.

The background of the question follows.

This time, due to the way Im doing things, Im keeping the low-grade rips/downloads (for which I dont own the original CDs) separate from the lossless rips (for which I do have the original CDs)

The question is. Should I throw them together again in the same NAS/Naim system? Should I keep them separate? If I do? How would you do it?

Considering that I love all my music, whether its low-grade files (from 128 to 320kbps) or the high-grade lossless rips but for some reason I feel uncomfortable playing low quality stuff through my system without never really knowing what is playing in terms of compression rate (all music files are stored in the same NAS with no way of instructing Sonos which root file to play)

Do I make sense?
Posted on: 29 November 2009 by Jason Milner
Hi Alonso

This depends what control system you're using. For example, on iTunes, you could create a smart playlist based on "Kind" or "Bit Rate", & then only play songs from your lossless playlist.

Any use?

J
Posted on: 29 November 2009 by Alonso
quote:
Originally posted by NattyOne:
If you don't know/can't tell - especially through a revealing system - then what is the problem?
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oh no.. I CAN tell. Let me put it this way... Imagine you have this breakfast machine that makes and feeds your breakfast. It has 2 batches of supplies. One is free-range, organic, eggs from chickens that listen to Mozart. The other batch is TESCO's value range, battery hatched eggs, where chickens are hung by their wings in complete darkness 24/7. Ok?

You CAN tell the difference but you never know before hand which one will the machine pick...

I just want to enjoy both but in a way be able t to decide when Im fed either!
Posted on: 29 November 2009 by Alonso
quote:
Originally posted by Jason Milner:
Hi Alonso

This depends what control system you're using. For example, on iTunes, you could create a smart playlist based on "Kind" or "Bit Rate", & then only play songs from your lossless playlist.

Any use?

J
Posted on: 29 November 2009 by Alonso
quote:
Originally posted by Alonso:
quote:
Originally posted by Jason Milner:
Hi Alonso

This depends what control system you're using. For example, on iTunes, you could create a smart playlist based on "Kind" or "Bit Rate", & then only play songs from your lossless playlist.

Any use?

J


Very useful... but I dont use itunes. Its just Sonos... But useful to know nevertheless....honestly. I never really understood Smartlists...
Posted on: 29 November 2009 by Alonso
quote:
Originally posted by Jason Milner:
Hi Alonso

This depends what control system you're using. For example, on iTunes, you could create a smart playlist based on "Kind" or "Bit Rate", & then only play songs from your lossless playlist.

Any use?

J


Very useful... but I dont use itunes to control my music (only to rip). Its just Sonos... But useful to know nevertheless....honestly. I never really understood Smart Playlists..
Posted on: 07 December 2009 by Michael Chare
You might want to keep extra backup copies of the stuff you don't have a CD for. That might be easier if it was in a separate library.