There is no manual. The B3 comes with a Quick Start Guide, there are web pages, and there is this forum.

 

The B3 cannot burn disks of any type.

Hello,

 

Burn a disk is the wrong terminology. To burn a disk is to take digital files and put the music onto the CD. The CD could be a data CD containing a lot of files, music being only one type. You could also use specific software that will take audio and place it onto the CD in the format for music CDs.

 

I think the question is can you RIP a CD or does it have to be original?

The CD must follow the Audio CD format. So while certainly the original is, as described above you can actually create them but not all CDs you create are audio CDs.

Note: If you already have digital files, you don't need to rip them, there are other ways to add digital audio (in the correct format) to the B3.

 

Can it burn from an original on an USB?

I don't understand the question. The original CD must be placed in the CD drive of the B3. The B3 does not support a USB connected CD drive.

 

Should I be getting this type of info from an online manual.

There is no manual. There is a quick start guide that will get you connected. The Brennan Website has a section that describes how to do many of the common functions. We have a knowledge base on the forum that can provide much useful knowledge. The forum will provide you quick answers we hope you will find informative and timely.

 

Can it burn a CD Mix?

Again, the Brennan's rip CD, it does not burn them. To playback music, you create up to 60 playlists that can organize your playback. Playlists can include entire artists or albums as well as individual tracks.

 

Hope this answers your questions Jim.

One for you. What do you want to do with the music you have? Are you creating digital copies, creating CDs to play in a CD player? Playing tracks back on a portable player? Playing tracks back on your home stereo or whole house sound system? These are just some of my ideas, but if you are trying to do something else, let us know and we can better answer if the B3 will suit you. We are customers here, not salespersons or employees of Brennan.

 

If I did not understand the question, feel free to ask again in this thread.

Ray

B3 is playing Bridge Over Troubled Water (New Orleans, 2001) by Paul Simon from "The Paul Simon Collection- On My Way, Don't Know Where I'm Goin' CD2"

Thank You for the reply

One other question, if the files on the USB are FLAC are they ripped as WAV?

 

Jim

No. The B3 will play FLAC files just fine.

In fact, if you rip a CD it will create a WAV file on the B3. You then tell it to "Compress Now" from the front panel and it will change them to FLAC.

 

FLAC is good.

Ray

B3 is playing Track14 by Various Artists from "3 Box Set - Love Collection Vol. 3"

 

EDIT: OOPS! You found one of my tracks that I have not fixed! I am not 100% correct on all of the music. I usually edit those by hand!

HEADS UP.

Ok. The title of the post says $1000. That is the price range for the B3+. I think Mark and I both ASSUME that is what you are asking. But nothing says it specifically. Is that the model you are looking at?

Ray

B3 is playing For the First Time by Rod Stewart from "If We Fall in Love Tonight"

B3+

So the FLAC files on the USB are ripped onto the B3+ 's hard drive as WAV or FLAC?

 

Jim

Files on a USB drives are NOT RIPPED. They are already files. They can be COPIED, exactly as they are. (The B3/B3+ calls this "importing".)

Thank You Sir, Moves me closer to B3+..........

 

Regards Jim

THANK YOU MARKF and RAY

 

JIM

Music on a standard Music CD is "ripped" by the B3+ to the B3+ internal hard disk as WAV format music data files.

Music as data files on a USB disk device can be moved/copied to the B3+'s internal hard disk by the B3+.

 

Once on the B3+'s internal hard disk the B3+ has the capability/function to change the format in which this music is held. It can compress WAV format filles to FLAC (the default) or MP3.

With FLAC the compression is fully reversable (back to WAV), no music data is lost. [The B3+ can not reverse the compression but the compression can be reversed using a desktop/laptop computer]

With MP3 the compression does permanently throw away some of the music data - thus the compression is NOT reversable by any means.

 

It is possible, in whole or in part, to copy music off the B3+ to a USB disk device.

The B3+ can also act as a NAS on your house network/LAN, making its music holding accessible to other devices on your house network/LAN.

I assume I take my chances with naming imported files?? By hand in the end....

 

Jim

I understand the question, but I don't see the problem. I admit that I've been using computers only since about 1977, but I have never seen an unnamed file. If it's a file, in a filesystem, it has to have a name.

 

When you copy/import the file to or from a B3/B3+, the process produces a COPY. Think of a photocopier: the copy looks like the original (if the photocopier is any good...) A copy of a file will have the same contents, and the same name, as the original of which it is a copy.

 

If you have named the original files what you want them to be called, the copies will also be named the same way.

TY

 

Jim