hudsondeal

Chris, I am a neophyte here, though I have an "audiophile" system, e.g., five Sonus Faber speakers, the Linn Unidisk and amplifier, and the AKG 701 headphones (although I must admit have a crush on my new Monster Beats by Dr. Dre!), etc. I've struggled for over a year putting my 1300 classical and soundtrack CDs on iTunes in my Macbook. I sent all of them off to a ripping service a year ago. I was warned in advance the Metadata for classical recordings was a problem, which I already knew based upon my own attempt at ripping them. When the CDs and the external hard drive where returned about 60% of the recordings were completely intact -- thus, for the past year I have been spending many evenings literally hunting down the tracks, cobbling them together, finding artwork, and creating usable files on iTunes. (I could write an article by itself on how I learned to fool iTunes with my searches in order to find the missing recordings!) I am about 90% through the CDs, allowed ripped to Apple Lossless -- sorry! -- but they sound wonderful both through my headphones and my HRT Music Streamer. <br /> <br /> So here are my questions, sorry if they are too sophomoric for this blog.<br /> <br /> 1. Is there any solution for getting Metadata for ripping classical music CDs?<br /> <br /> 2. I have downloaded the demo model of Amarra and find it improved sound dramatically -- is the Amarra Mini sufficient for my needs?<br /> <br /> 3. Here is where I am out of my depth and my question will expose that: Presently I am simply playing my music off my Macbook iTunes connected by firewire to a Seagate external hard drive (yes, it all backed up on another hard drive.) When I look at the your diagram I see you are connected wirelessly to your music source/server through Airport Extreme. It was my understanding that Airport Extreme did satisfy audiophile requirements. What am I missing?<br /> <br /> Thank you for any help you can offer, <br /> <br /> Deal Hudson