Brennan B3 (2TB Black) Hifi - Hard disk CD ripper & recorder, storage and player with Bluetooth, Compatible with Sonos, Internet Radio, Stereo Power amplifier, NAS, Wav, Lossless (FLAC) and MP3.

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In fact the music is stored as WAV files at this stage and if you are not short of disk space you need not compress them.

The offline database has two disadvantages. It does not have any album art and it does not know about recent CDs. The new BBC HLS system will give you access to higher quality music. I understand they use 320k AAC. So when I set out to design a replacement for B2 I said OK no compromises - use a fast desktop CD and beautiful IPS TFT colour display. B2 and B2B have both been updated to include the new Radiofeeds list and the change to the web UI presets panel. After upgrading the software you should load the new Radiofeeds list using Settings > Radio UpdateAdjust the timezone relative to GMT - this function only adjusts whole hours. If you need to adjust minutes use Zone Minutes in the Maintenance Menu. This function starts compression of all uncompressed (WAV) files to MP3. Use MP3 if you are short of space or quality is not so important.

Get the latest software from www.brennan.co.uk. You can find the date of your current software in Stats. Rebuilds an index of the music on the hard disk. Useful if B2 was turned off while busy. Turn off and on then do this first if you have any problems. You can play music on the B2 to any and all of your Sonos speakers. Add music to the queue and create Sonos playlists. The B2 becomes part of the Sonos system. iPad NAS App Loads the offline CD database (mydb) from the USB memory - you can get this file from a link on www.brennan.co.uk - its more than 1Gb The phone should be on the same local (Wifi) network as the Brennan and you can control several Brennans with the app.

Martin talks about the B3

I found when I photographed the B2 - it is so small it looked lost in a room setting or alongside other audio equipment. This function writes all the music in a specific playlist to the USB memory. The music on the target device will be organised into artist and album folders. Day 8 after ripping 350+ CDs, content is present in the Web UI but fails to play or display album art, attempts to update result in "waiting for disk" message and the content disappears from the UI, when attempting to play from the device itself, there's no content listed at all. Set the path to the Brennan B2 music folder. You can use Browse - you will find it under the network folder.