I upgraded my old '99 version of EAC to the latest and found that I can rip compressed and it converts the file to FLAC....sweet! I used freedb to get the artist info, but how is everyone else doing this? Once you get the files do you DL the squeezebox software (like itunes) and you are ready to go. Might get this Duet for multiple rooms and to get the CD's out of my basement.
yes, thats exactly what I did. Slimserver (the squeezebox software) is functionally exactly like Itunes. You designate your music directory, and it reads all of the tags for the songs, and creates a library. You can set it up to scan for new stuff every day, so all you do is put new files in the directory and it will pick them up itself, or you can tell it to scan if you wanna listen to something right away that you just added.
Slimserver also allows you to stream your music anywhere.
Once slimserver is set up, when you initially start up your sb3 (or other product, presumably) you just tell the sb3 which computer on your network is running slimserver, and it connects. Then you browse through the library using artist or song or album or whatev.