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Hi, Can anyone help, I have recently converted all my cd's to FLAC files & loaded them on a NAS drive, I then purchased a Cambridge CXN to play the songs directly off the NAS drive (downstairs)...great...Now I have already spent 2K approx so I am after something (cheap) I can have in the bedroom hopefully to work off my NAS drive, is their a cheap player or even a speaker I can buy (that works off an app on my phone) that will play so I can have music upstairs independent to the CXN player. Is a Chromecast audio such a device? Thankyou in advance Ian

Extra thanks to John (Cebolla) I've learnt a lot on here....cheers....hopefully I might be able to help others one day..(here's hoping..laffin)

FINALLY SORTED! Thanks for everyones input really appreciated, if anyone is interested I finally managed to get iTunes playlists on my NAS drive & then recognised on the Cambridge CXN, I downloaded 'export for itunes' from the app store £5.99 & this allows me to download playlist or albums to my CXN via my NAS....brilliant..... cheers

NIGHTMARE!!!! tried Twonky but couldn't get it to recognise iTunes.....got to give up on that one ...thanks for the help though....just put a cd on oh sooooo easy...this is the future.....(laffin) regards ian

Hi There, I am using Poweramp on my Mac btw. Thanks for all the advice it's appreciated but I am clearly trying to do something I can't do with iTunes. Instead then I am now looking for software that I can make playlists on & then put them onto a usb stick & plug directly into the cambridge cxn, I have tried Jriver media centre & beatunes 4.5 & had some luck with Jriver but it seemed like hard work does anyone know of an easier software for making playlists.... Thanks again for taking time out to help... cheers

Thanks for the help John, just going to click on that link now rodrigaj...thankyou

Hi John, Thanks for your time replying, I clearly am still on a learning curve with all this Regarding the NAS drive all I can tell you is it's a WD MyCloud. I run the CXN player both off the actual machine & also the Cambridge connect app. I can play my flac files fine the only reason I wanted to play the iTunes is because I could easily make playlists & organise my music easily. I tried the Jriver media centre which was great for organising music & playlists but I couldn't access these off my NAS drive but only off the computer which means I needed the computer running to be able to play the music. I have seemed to struggle all the way with going from cd's to modern technology...jeez I do miss vinyl (laffin)...Thanks again John cheers ian

Yeah my MAC sees the folders but my CXN player only sees the MUSIC flac files folder but not the iTunes folder. I can use the player with the music folder fine but wanted to run off iTunes so I could easily make playlists, I tried the Jriver media centre for making playlists but to use this I need to have my computer running...thanks

please bare with me but I don't understand what fie system I am using, the only info I know is the FLAC files in my MUSIC folder is recognised but when I converted to APPLE LOSSLESS for iTunes & saved the iTunes folder in on my NAS it is not recognised....hope this helps...thanks

Thanks for the help but it still won't recognise it..grrrrrr....so frustrating, might go back to just playing cd's lol

Hi, Can anyone help as I am quite new to technology, I have converted my cd's to FLAC files using Dbpoweramp software & put them in a MUSIC folder on my Mac then I copied the MUSIC file to my NAS drive & my Cambridge CXN recognises this & runs fine. I then converted my flac files into apple lossless files so I could import into iTunes & make playlists etc but when I copied my iTunes folder to my NAS drive this is not recognised & it only shows my original MUSIC file. Can anyone inform me what I may be doing wrong & why my iTunes music is not recognised. thanks as always ian

Hi Mike, Thanks again for the info but Sorry it took so long to reply haven't been on as soooo busy with work. My library will be around 10,000 tracks but when I turn on the CXN & go to ALL TRACKS it takes ages to load up before I can use it, I think I understand abit what you mean with genres maybe if I split my music up I could pick a genre & it wouldn't take as long to load. Still struggling with the AudioLibrary>Rock>A...Z>Artist>Album bit though..... email - [email protected] if it helps cheers ian

Thanks again for the info Mike, I have just downloaded the free trial version of Jriver media & so far it looks pretty good so I guess I will be buying it, I have imported my music (file-library-import) to import my music but as I organise library, add to it, make playlist etc how do you get it back into your music folder so the Cambridge CXN reads the files/playlists etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated as always. cheers ian

Thanks for the advice Mike, I have just downloaded this to give it a try, now got to learn how to use it, weren't things simpler when we had vinyl...lol cheers ian

Thankyou for the advice.....I will download now & give it ago