You want Hi-Res, but you ripped all your CD's to Mp3..?

It's a shame that all of our music CD's are basically garbage nowadays. You can bet that future hipsters are going to want them.

It would be the perfect device for someone who only has 4 albums in their collection.

Almost 500 dollars and for what? A wireless receiver for just music? I didn't even know these existed.

If find your approach very confusing. I think part of your problem is mixing too much gear and varying formats, old and new. What I have done is quite simple: I ripped my complete CD collection into iTunes then using iTunes Match I uploaded the titles to Apple’s storage cloud known as Apple Music. From there I have access not only to my ripped CDs but 40 million titles. My gear is limited to Bose Sound Touch Speakers with Apple Airport Express or Apple TVs attached to the speakers into order to access my Apple Music subscription. Even without the Apple Music subscription I have access to my ripped library. I can navigate quite easily my tunes either on my iMac, iPhone or iPad. All my album art is present with the exception of a couple albums which were easily restored. My whole system is wireless and cloud based. No optical drives, no hard drives or home based servers. As a result, everything works efficiently and sounds great. No mix and match of old formats either music or hardware.

Use FLAC not MP3. MP3 is good but flac is better.

The album art disappeared because you have iCloud syncing on, I believe. RUINED my library. Sidenote, your channel is spectacular.

you should rip to flac, not mp3

Is "Joshua" your WiFi password?

I am sure ITUNES steal the music from your PC via their softaware. I’ve thought it for a long time because some of the albums covers I now have on my PC are not where that track came from.. They are all thieves, the companies offering music to rent... You think when they send you software updates that only stuff comes in onto your PC, but they can also take stuff off... I’m Convinced. iTunes doesn’t send updates anymore...Starnge.

You never fail to impress me my friend, I am so glad you sent that POS back. That smaller than spec screen they through in there as a cost saving move looked ridiculous. Pioneer used to be a good company that made respectable mid range equipment, ah the good ol' days.

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It's that sinking feeling when you buy something, you're all excited, then you plug the f$&&er in. 5 seconds later all you can think about is how you're gonna have to try and send the piece of $h!t back.

Techmoan

YO love that you show classic hip-hop cassettes cd ect. respect! props!

You have a fascinating and informative channel, I just subbed and started watching it. Thanks for the work put into these and sharing!

Pioneer really dropped the ball on this.

Just when I could not enjoymyour videos anymore you buy another thing I really need in my life

When I wanna hear a CD I usually take a CD and put it into a CD player. Maybe that's just me. To be clear this isn't a critique of digital music or digitizing CDs it's just when I want to specifically hear an album on disc...I just listen to one in a regular disc player.

Kudos on the name of your wireless network, Mr. Falken. :)