"Respectfully: Which is more fuss...burning a new one to your library...or constantly searching through hundreds of cds for a specific cd or a song when the mood strikes you?"
That's a false choice. Here's an example of what I was talking about: Got two CDs in the mail yesterday. If I had a CD player, I could have popped one in and started listening a couple of seconds after I'd shut the mailbox door. As things stand now, here's what I'd have to have done: Go upstairs, which is where my music server happens to live, rip one or both (which would take, say, five to 10 minutes), then tell the Logitech Media Server to look for new and changed music (which would be pretty quick, but I'm including it as another step, since it's there and all), come back downstairs, plop down in my listening chair, launch iPeng on my iPhone, and start listening. In all, we're looking at probably 12 to 15 minutes (and one trip up and another down the stairs) just to hear some music that arrived in the mail. Versus, say, 15 seconds if I still had a CDP.
Now, I use the Squeezebox all the time, and don't intend to stop. Once the new discs are on the server, I'll likely never put either into the CDP again -- unless one or both happens to have been encoded using the HDCD process).
My post wasn't offering the type of either/or choice you suggest. I was only saying that there are times when it would still be nice and easy to have a CD player. Not many times, and not as a replacement for the music server, but times. And yesterday happened to be one of 'em.
Respectfully,
Howard
That's a false choice. Here's an example of what I was talking about: Got two CDs in the mail yesterday. If I had a CD player, I could have popped one in and started listening a couple of seconds after I'd shut the mailbox door. As things stand now, here's what I'd have to have done: Go upstairs, which is where my music server happens to live, rip one or both (which would take, say, five to 10 minutes), then tell the Logitech Media Server to look for new and changed music (which would be pretty quick, but I'm including it as another step, since it's there and all), come back downstairs, plop down in my listening chair, launch iPeng on my iPhone, and start listening. In all, we're looking at probably 12 to 15 minutes (and one trip up and another down the stairs) just to hear some music that arrived in the mail. Versus, say, 15 seconds if I still had a CDP.
Now, I use the Squeezebox all the time, and don't intend to stop. Once the new discs are on the server, I'll likely never put either into the CDP again -- unless one or both happens to have been encoded using the HDCD process).
My post wasn't offering the type of either/or choice you suggest. I was only saying that there are times when it would still be nice and easy to have a CD player. Not many times, and not as a replacement for the music server, but times. And yesterday happened to be one of 'em.
Respectfully,
Howard