Has anyone solved the compatibility issues between HDX and Itunes in terms of file name structure. I have just become the owner of a HDX and I am trying to solve the issue of compatibility between HDX ripped file names and Itunes/Sonos. I have a reasonable amount of CDs(500+) already ripped to NAS at the highest quality MP3 rate which I use to load various Ipods and Iphone plus listen to on a 8 zone Sonos system.
What I want to be able to do is ripp CDs on the HDX and then use the WAV rips to input into Itunes where I can convert them to AAC for downloading onto Ipod/Iphone and playing through the Sonos system. The big problem is that the filenames produced by the HDX are not compatible with Itunes and you end up having to rename the tracks with track name, artist and album manually which is a big no no for 10,000 tracks.
Posted on: 26 February 2011 by garyi
Your're not gonna mate, really its down too re-ripping
Posted on: 26 February 2011 by DavidDever
There is no need to re-rip the music for use with Sonos–the HDX can function as a UPnP server for your Sonos system.
As for iTunes–have you ever maxed out an iPod? If not–you may want to stick with WAV if you can (better quality, storage is cheap).
Posted on: 27 February 2011 by scillyisles
Yes the Sonos works by adding the HDX as a folders music option and music can then be streamed from the HDX via UPNP to the Sonos system. However you lose all the categorisation/search/browse functions by genre,artist,album,track name etc because of the naming structure that the HDX uses. For a small music collection, this is probably manageable but for a music collection with over 15,000 tracks it is very unwiedly.
I have 3 160Gb Ipod classics plus a 60Gb Ipod classic - each is dedicated to a car and I load all my music collection onto them and do not use playlists just put the music onto random play. The 60Gb filled up a long time ago and according to my calculations WAV rips of just the music currently stored on my Itunes library comes to 279Gb.
I do not know what percentage of the downloaded/ripped CD music market Itunes has but I would have imagined it was 80%+ so you would have thought that Naim would have thought this through when choosing the file naming structure used by the HDX.
