Note: I have been reluctent to do anything other than pop a cd into a dedicated player for music so this is a big step for me.


Go for it. I was always reluctant to go away from listening to actual CD's as well..until I set up a squeezebox Duet system. I absolutely love it and will never go back to looking all over trying to find a particula CD and then forgetting most of the ones I have.

I spent a few weeks and ripped all of my CD collection..over a thousand CD's, onto a one terabyte drive on my main computer. I have a second one terabyte drive that backs up the first. I used the wma- lossless format and the results are very very satisfying. I can't tell the difference between the CD and the squeezebox when running the duet digital out into my DAC.

I have my cd's packed away in the closet in boxes just in case I ever want to see what they looked like. The duet shows me the album covers and all of the song and artist info right on a nice color lcd screen on the remote.