I'm hoping to use JRiver to put my music on computer, but I am a 61 y.o. geezer. I have used a/v gear all my life, but all my music is on cd's. I have never used a computer for music outside of iTunes and a nano that I use on portable player at work. I want to use this for my higher quality HT/2-ch music setup.
I would like to move all my cd's to my laptop (or a 1-2 tb storage thingee) and use JRiver to send music to my oppo 105, but I know absolutely nothing about how to do this.
Is there an Idiot's Guide To JRiver that someone could point me to??
I need to find out things like:
what form to record it in for lossless, that will work well with the oppo?
how and where do I back up my files?
do I get album art and song lists for each cd,( like gracenote does for the oppo) with IRiver?
do I need a special soundcard for my laptop?
can I record sacd's or dvd-a's to my computer at high rates?
how do I connect between the laptop/storage unit to the oppo? hdmi? usb?
As you can see, I need to start from the beginning. I'm not stupid, but I'm terribly ignorant.
Please help.
Tom