ReadyToPlay and Sonos are a perfect marriage for your digital music needs. We take your CDs (in binders, jewel cases or spindles) and load them to a Buffalo Linkstation NAS so that you can listen without taxing your computer or a Seagate external hard drive. The Sonos systems is quite an elegant solution and a ReadyToPlay DataGroomed music collection is the perfect compliment.

For Sonos, you can either rip into a lossless or lossy format. Lossless means that the audio is the same sound quality as the CD, while lossy is compressed audio, but at high bitrates still has good quality sound.

Specifically for Sonos, in lossless, you can choose either Apple Lossless or FLAC (WMA Lossless is too CPU-intensive for the Sonos to decode). In a lossy codec, it’s typically best to go with MP3, as it provides high-quality sound and can be used with just about any digital music player or software.