Great to see success with a previously owned UnitiServe on this thread. Well done and congratulations on your purchase.
I too own a Naim UnitiServe and have very recently used the resources of the forum (searching for āUnitiServe battery change/failureā) - finding a few closed threads on the topic - to successfully change the internal CR2032 battery and then reboot the UnitiServe following a continuous flashing light āfailureā indication.
I hope the previous owner of your UnitiServe has already changed the internal battery, otherwise you might need to do the battery change at some point in the near future.
PS: The original fitted battery (I have owned the Unitiserve from new) lasted just three months short of a full decade!
It would take half of my eventual retirement to correct the metadata holes on thŃ Š”Ds that I have ripped, but the N-serve app doesnāt seem to accept any user changes that I try to make to artist, title, composer, conductor, track fields?
Are you referring to albums you have ripped on the Unitiserve? Is the online metadata search, that the US does automatically, working?
Are you saving the rips as WAV or FLAC, and are you ripping a quantity of CDs one after the other? Iām asking because these are things that can affect metadata editing on the US.
Are you using N-Serve to edit the CDs? If youāre using a non-Naim interface to make edits to CD rips, donāt. This will break the database. Composer and conductor are feilds which cannot be edited in N-Serve.
Are you referring to albums you have ripped on the Unitiserve?
Yes
Is the online metadata search, that the US does automatically, working?
Yes although it canāt find quite a few or else append
s completely wrong data to them, so I delete again.
Are you saving the rips as WAV or FLAC, and are you ripping a quantity of CDs one after the other? Iām asking because these are things that can affect metadata editing on the US.
Just ripped a large quantity - 270 - of the CDs that I can find the discs for . I hope to find a few more over timeā¦ I have yet to work out how to save my rips as FLACs.
Are you using N-Serve to edit the CDs? If youāre using a non-Naim interface to make edits to CD rips, donāt. This will break the database.
Yes. Only trying the N-serve app, in vain thus farā¦
Composer and conductor are fields which cannot be edited in N-Serve.
Useful to know; noted, but the app wonāt let me edit any fields.
Is there any way to access the music folders on my iPhone to copy the missing discs onto the Unitiserve? Sorry if I am the least technical person on this forum!
My MacBook crashed regularly from new - perhaps due to the volume of music - the local Apple genius bar could never fathom it out - citing insufficient operating memory (although it had a ton!) and finally had to be reset to factory condition at their store.
My pretty much complete collection is being found by the McIntosh app. but only on my iPhone! On my iPad, via the McIntosh app only a handful of singles that I have purchased appearā¦ and a U2 album that the system, unbidden, placed in my folder one night.
I have just had a hunt in Settings/General/iPhone Storage and my music files are all in there under āSynched Mediaā. But how to get them out again?!
Hi Glen, if you connect your iPhone to your Mac (faster if you do this by a USB cable) and go into Finder, you should see your iPhone in the left hand column. Click on Music/Sync and the files should transfer.
Reading your thread fresh, seems you maybe are misunderstanding the US versus your music. There has been some good advice to address issues you have raised.
The US is primarily a music ripper and storage / server medium. Files stored as WAV are in a Naim format, hence why cds ripped afresh are best done as FLAC. WAV is marginally better sound wise while less compatible.
Best to avoid the detail and be guided by the bigger picture. CDs you rip to US - seems w/o mention that it has a HDD. These can be edited in a limited fashion.
Music which you have stored in formats away from the US will not be directly compatible. Apple stored music is neither FLAC or WAV - it can be converted āawayā from the US. Broadly if you want that music on your US, then it has to be ripped. There are workarounds, but you need to be somewhat technically minded to do this successfully. Richardās post is correct but doesnāt address the compatibility issues. Before transferring any files, rip just a few cds and get those edited as you require before continuing. Remember any files that you do end up transferring to downloads, cannot be edited, so whatever is missing, will always be missing.
Likely to save a lot of aggravation and unnecessary time, if you are missing cds, then consider a subscription to Tidal or Qobuz. As the Meerkats say āsimplesā.
If your Naim streamer has been bought new from a dealer, they will be a useful source of information and have likely had experience with similar customers stored music.
Thinking about this - it was a few years ago - I have a memory that switching from WAV to FLAC ripping could only be done via the now unavailable web interface.
You can convert between WAV and FLAC in the N-Serve app (on a Mac, not iOS.) You can set it so that any future rips are saved in either of the two formats, and you can convert any existing rips between the two formats.
David is correct that the US can serve and play ALAC, as well as AIFF and AAC, if you save these files in the Downloads folder. CD rips can only be saved as WAV, FLAC and MP3.
To be clear, they can be edited, just not using any of the Naim interfaces which can only edit CD rips. Once files are in the Downloads folder (whether they started out as CD rips or not) they can be edited easily using a metadata editor such as MP3tag or Metadatics. Pretty much any non-Naim metadata editor allows you far more versatility in that you can create and edit pretty much any metadata field such as composer, conductor, etc whereas in N-Serve you can only edit track, album, artist, genre and artwork.
