![]() ![]() However a challenge was made by the Music Industry and a high court judge ruled in July 2015 that the UK governments opinion of there being no damaging economic effects of ripping, was unjustified. In October 2014, legislation came into effect in the UK to allow the ripping of CDs for personal use as part of The Copyright and Rights in Performances (Personal Copies for Private Use) Regulations 2014. Of course this is illegal if someone has paid for the CD, which perhaps goes without saying. Many people share files amongst one another using file sharing sites, and software. iTunes is a big source of downloads, other websites such as HD tracks too. You use software on a PC or MAC computer, or laptop, for this purpose.Īnother means of getting the music there is by buying the music files online. Examples of such software is dbpoweramp or EAC (Exact Audio Copy). Ripping is a process of extracting the musical content of CD into electronic music files, on a track by track basis. How do files get on the various drives (from where do they originate)? It looks similar to a WiFi router with aerials and a number of ethernet ports. If your main internet router is in a different room to your HiFi and you still want to use a wired connection but not run long lengths of cabling to connect the two, don’t get your drill and hammer out! Use a WiFi extender such as a Netgear nighthawk extender. isolating the effects different electronic circuits have, to improve sound quality. ![]() Sometimes manufacturers recommend it for stability, other times they recommend WiFi for electrically noiseless reasons i.e. Neither connection is better than the other per se, depending on the speed of the network, but a wired connection often provides a more stable connection for your streamer. Subscription music service files from Tidal or Qobuz are sent on from the internet router similarly by wired or wireless means Streaming via Wired or Wireless means This quick video shows how music stored on a NAS (on the right) is sent to the router for onward forwarding to the streamer ( Yamaha WXC-50) wirelessly or by wired ethernet means. If using the wired method such WiFi routers tend to have a bank of Ethernet sockets too. Most streamers have both wired and wireless capability to suit lots of installations and all routers are now of a WiFi type such they can send music this way. If wireless, then obviously no connection is needed the streamer simply receives its data from the router wirelessly. With a wired connection it uses an Ethernet wire connection – see connections below. Music can be sent to the streamer from a router using a wired or wireless connection. How does the music get from where it’s stored to the streamer? You also stream music files from online subscription based music services such as Tidal or Qobuz (see below). Also from other iPod type music players that can often be connected to the streamer too. What you stream?įor HiFi you either stream music files stored on a computer storage hard drive, a network hard drive that attaches to your internet router – called a NAS ( Network Attached Storage Drive) or a USB drive. This is digital music data – in effect a code of 1’s and 0’s. But akin to removing the source of a river, remove the source of the music file with a streamer and the music keeps playing for a short time as some of the data has already been streamed. ![]() If you pause a CD player, the music immediately stops. Hence such music data is being ‘streamed’. Unlike CD players or Vinyl Turntables, music isn’t playing in real time, but being sent in data chunks from the original file. Streaming – what is it?Īs it sounds, Streaming means sending musical data in a stream from where the electronic music file originates to a device where it’s played. To understand everything about streaming I recommend reading in the order presented in this guide about Streaming Audio in HiFi. I’ve set these out in a simple guide, in an easy to understand way, pre supposing no former knowledge. To grasp what streaming is, we have to take on board some concepts. Unsurprisingly because there is so much jargon around the subject. For the layman, streaming is probably the most confusing area in HiFi at the moment. ![]()
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