I’m not a fan of playlists and I can’t say I was enamoured by the addition of Smart Mixes to Innuos Sense but over the past couple of weeks my wife and I have tried the “Play Anything” option. It selects about an hours worth of music and as it nears the last five it generates further tracks and… it’s wonderful. A far better way of browsing through 26,633 tracks than scrolling through A to Z and we’ve been playing the Zenith for pretty much any hour we’re not watching TV or reading.
Have rediscovered stuff I’ve not heard in years and albums I’ve favourited I’d never gotten around to listening to. Strongly recommended. It’s addictive.
When our ZM returned from its upgrade to S, Innous had already set up the latest s/w version. I’ve seen that feature and others at the top of the page view.
In the short time since our ZM came back, I’ve been so occupied just playing a bunch of albums I know and love. But, up to that point, I had been doing a much more “old school” thing. Now that we have ripped all our CD’s, I have been making a point of going through the collection alphabetically and playing them one by one.
Like you say, it’s a pleasure to be reminded why you bought a disc, (even though you may not be playing it anymore).
I listened to several Aztec Camera albums recently and really enjoyed them again.
Thanks for the recommendation.
I’m going to give that particular feature a go now.
@ratrat … wondering how your getting on with the upgraded mini… is it better as Roon core? I’m finding mine slowing up with recent updates, so wondering whether to upgrade or chop it in for Roon nucleus
First, apologies for radio silence. Been busy recently, with little time on the forum. Sorry to miss your post and question.
When I originally bought our ZM, I didn’t envisage using it for Room Core duties. Somehow, I wasn’t convinced it’s specification was up to the task. Maybe the newer S specification might suit the task better.
My longer term thoughts - explored earlier in this thread - is to add a dedicated box for this task.
Very slowly! I had to borrow my daughter’s laptop which has no Ethernet. So you open up a web page of the nucleus ( the address is given on roon site) then identify internal storage, then drag and drop your music into that folder. I only had 800gb but it took nearly 36 hrs! Would have been faster wired apparently with Ethernet from nucleus to laptop.
Check out the knowledge base on Roon website.
Thank you @Hifi-dog. Sounds painful. I shall follow @ChrisSU’s advice I think.
Currently I have about 1000 cd’s on my Zen Mini. I have them set up as a network share, and the Roon Core on my Nucleus ‘watches’ this share for any new rips on the Zeni mini. It’s seamless. The cd’s are displayed in Roon’s massive reservoir as if the rips resided on the Nucleus itself - nice.
However…sigh…my usual hifi nutter head has kicked in again…
What are your thoughts @Hifi-dog and @ChrisSU. Do you think that rips stored on the Nucleus itself, will sound better on playback, than the Nucleus rendering a ‘watched’ folder’ containing the rips on the Zen mini. Hope this makes sense. It really is no wonder my wife think that I/we are a crazy lot
