Hi All
I currently have all my music on my pc which is where I sync up my iphone and iPod etc. Whilst I did use it a lot for content creation in the past it's more or less redundant to me now, save.... downloading and syncing my podcasts.
My intentions are to basically get rid of the pc itself and take the hard drives containing all my media and put it into a standalone media hub where I can download and access music, video and sync my devices to/from. Having done some reading on this I currently think a way of doing this is by putting the drives into a NAS drive connected directly to the router. Presumably I can then use my laptop to grab my data from it wirelessly? Almost like using iCloud but the cloud is my my NAS drive? From this I also wish to wire it up to a home theatre system so I would need an amp (if i remember correctly perhaps a Denon one with wifi?) that would be able to possibly run active speakers on all channels. Ideally I want to be able to come home plug my phone into my mac let it sync to the NAS whilst I can also wirelessly control media playback from other devices streaming out of this 'hub'?.
Does this sound pretty reasonable?! What are the other options available?
I apologise if this isn't 100% clear as I'm typing on my phone :/
Thanks in advance!
I currently have all my music on my pc which is where I sync up my iphone and iPod etc. Whilst I did use it a lot for content creation in the past it's more or less redundant to me now, save.... downloading and syncing my podcasts.
My intentions are to basically get rid of the pc itself and take the hard drives containing all my media and put it into a standalone media hub where I can download and access music, video and sync my devices to/from. Having done some reading on this I currently think a way of doing this is by putting the drives into a NAS drive connected directly to the router. Presumably I can then use my laptop to grab my data from it wirelessly? Almost like using iCloud but the cloud is my my NAS drive? From this I also wish to wire it up to a home theatre system so I would need an amp (if i remember correctly perhaps a Denon one with wifi?) that would be able to possibly run active speakers on all channels. Ideally I want to be able to come home plug my phone into my mac let it sync to the NAS whilst I can also wirelessly control media playback from other devices streaming out of this 'hub'?.
Does this sound pretty reasonable?! What are the other options available?
I apologise if this isn't 100% clear as I'm typing on my phone :/
Thanks in advance!