Download the free Apple Remote app to your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch, and connect up via your home's wifi. If you're running iTunes, as I've described throughout these posts, you're ready to connect. A free app that does exactly what I described.
So, the next step in our journey is to add a slick remote control that does all this. We'd like to build playlists, stream our favorite radio stations, choose our CDs, enjoy our systems. Instead, we'd prefer to sit in our easy chair, iPad in lap, and browse through the library–like Henry the Eighth–a musical kingdom at our beck and call. But that's not really in the spirit of how we want to interact with the music in our listening room. We can control iTunes through our desktop mouse, keyboard and video monitor. But, in the meantime, for those getting their feet wet experiencing the joys of a first music library, there's iTunes free, easy, approachable. Roon's perhaps where you want to graduate to: like Harvard or Yale. And Roon assumes you already have a ripped library and kind of know what you're doing. Roon requires a computer (of course iTunes does too). The king of kings when it comes to the user interface.
The people behind it are wonderful–dedicated music lovers with a brilliant product. But, for those who are a bit computer adverse, JRiver can be challenging.
We routinely recommend JRiver to our Bridge customers who do not use a NAS. JRemote, the mobile app that control JRiver's good, but JRiver isn't the easiest program to get along with for the uninitiated. One of the reasons I still use iTunes as my main music manager is the ease and simplicity of its interface. We'll then connect to our DAC and do what we can to get the best sound. We'll next need an easy, slick way to control and browse the library. So far, we've succeeded in getting music onto our Mac or PC, edited the information so it's accurate and good looking. We'll wrap this series up with installment 13 and get on to other business.
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