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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CD players have several layers of error detection and correction. You will sometimes hear the B3 slow down if it has difficulty reading a CD. CDs also do not contain any cover or album art. But the Musicbrainz database has links to where B3 can find suitable images. 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.

Two USB 2.0 type A ports for peripherals - WiFi dongle, Bluetooth dongle, USB Hub, USB DAC, USB storage device.

Get the latest software from www.brennan.co.uk. You can find the date of your current software in Stats.

I could not really find a way to fit a colour display. I needed a letter box shaped display but colour displays usually have a squarish TV shape.There is no support for sets of CDs. B3 treats the CDs as individual albums. Here are some things to consider.

B2 gets a few minor tweaks to the Queue function. B3 gets the Queue function and now has Bluetooth Out. You will need to update any BBC presets using the vTuner panel in the Web UI or App to take advantage of the new channels. 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 Android apps don't automatically detect the B3 as claimed but its okay, you can manually add the B3 to the app by IP

This has the advantage that you can then rip CDs without an internet connection. The offline database also contains a copy of an older database known as Freedb so you might find it can identify a CD that is not in Musicbrainz. Set the path to the Brennan B2 music folder. You can use Browse - you will find it under the network folder. In my case, this wasn't true, when i opened the box, it looked brand new, all the wires were neatly bundled, everything was wrapped in plastic, there was a protective film over the display but when i plugged it in there was already 334 songs by 30 artists installed on the HD.. in effect, someone else's music library so in reality it was pre-owned. Adjust the timezone relative to GMT - this function only adjusts whole hours. If you need to adjust minutes use Zone Minutes in the Maintenance Menu.

Bluetooth In - play music from your mobile phone or tablet through B3 - nothing to do on B3 just connect on your phone/tablet and play. External laptop computer style 24V power supply / AC adaptor - included - works from 110V to 240V. Size 3cm x 6cm x 13cm. 3m overall lead length. 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.I designed the JB7 and B2 to be as small as possible - I think I inherited that instinct from Clive Sinclair Upgrade the software from a USB memory in USB A. You need to get a file called b2s.tar.gz from www.brennan.co.uk