stonedcamel
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hello,
History; in the last year + i had an external portable hard drive go bust on me so i set up a Synology NAS at home and it works great. to save space on the mac i copied my itunes folder over to the NAS. all works great and plays through the logitech squeezebox server great (duet in lounge and boom in kitchen)
Fast forward some, i slowly got the feeling Apple were closing their doors again and my mac needed upgrading so i made the switch to windows and later changed my iphone to android.
Present; i transferred some of the music to Google Play. the rest is on the NAS in the itunes folder still and i have a box of CDs i keep meaning to rip. I have made the decision not to purchase anymore music from itunes, therefore all my new music will be bought and ripped. i am keeping my old iphone as a portable music player only though and i downloaded copytrans to help do this much better than itunes.
Questions:
What do i do with all my music in the itunes folder? change the name of the folder or keep adding to it?
Rip CDs with media player in mp3?
ignore the google play side of things?
the logitech units are dying and have pretty much been replaced with google home, can i play from synology?
and generally, i seem to have got myself in a muddle and just want it simplified and easy to use but couldnt see any light so any help or suggestions are welcome
sorry for the long winded post and this seemed to be the best section to ask!
Thanks
History; in the last year + i had an external portable hard drive go bust on me so i set up a Synology NAS at home and it works great. to save space on the mac i copied my itunes folder over to the NAS. all works great and plays through the logitech squeezebox server great (duet in lounge and boom in kitchen)
Fast forward some, i slowly got the feeling Apple were closing their doors again and my mac needed upgrading so i made the switch to windows and later changed my iphone to android.
Present; i transferred some of the music to Google Play. the rest is on the NAS in the itunes folder still and i have a box of CDs i keep meaning to rip. I have made the decision not to purchase anymore music from itunes, therefore all my new music will be bought and ripped. i am keeping my old iphone as a portable music player only though and i downloaded copytrans to help do this much better than itunes.
Questions:
What do i do with all my music in the itunes folder? change the name of the folder or keep adding to it?
Rip CDs with media player in mp3?
ignore the google play side of things?
the logitech units are dying and have pretty much been replaced with google home, can i play from synology?
and generally, i seem to have got myself in a muddle and just want it simplified and easy to use but couldnt see any light so any help or suggestions are welcome
sorry for the long winded post and this seemed to be the best section to ask!
Thanks