This is good product it holds a lot of music and it's easy to install, but I wish there were more ways for me to store my music maybe by having a flash card port in order for me to store the music on a flash card that I could put in my portable hard drive. Guess I can't have everything

I needed an all-in-one solution for ripping my large CD collection and making it available to me and my household to listen to. This is a great all-in-one solution for converting your CD library into digital files and making the music available digitally. I'm listening to music I haven't heard in decades because the CDs have been in storage boxes in my basement waiting for a solution like this.

This device can rip a huge CD collection and serve it up via Sonos or directly to your speakers.

Ripping CDs is time-consuming. When you're done, you can backup the whole library to an external HD which you really should do if you're investing so much time in ripping things.

It copies to WAV by default, you also have FLAC and MP3 options. I haven't done the math, but even in WAV, 2TB is a huge music collection.

The whole device feels high quality. It's heavy, the buttons are a nice rubber and the click wheel has a high-end feel to it. The menus are simple, there isn't much to do here but load and play music. It will also load Spotify via librespot.

By default, it shows the time down to the second (note to manufacturer, do we really need to see the seconds?), and while playing, you get album art and track info. The MusicBrainz lookup is fine, it gets everything you'd expect and it misses what you expect: very obscure CDs, some compilation albums, this is a limitation of MusicBrainz and not the device. You can manually name the outliers if you have the time.

If you're not using the outputs (more on that below) it connects wirelessly and can be stored in a closet or anywhere out of the way. Playback via Sonos is great, you can select output speakers on the device itself or through the app. Playlist building is also time-consuming, but again, that's not a device limitation and you probably only do it once.

The outputs are a little mysterious to me. It has a built-in amp that can directly output to speakers. I think that's great if you have a shop or a small room where you want this to be the only device. Still, it seems a strange decision to me that the manufacturer excluded RCA out but included amplification: casual users will probably throw a Sonos speaker up and skip the wires, and the hi-fi users will want wired connections to their existing amp. I fall into the former category and use this with Sonos speakers around the house, that implementation is very good.

I would have taken a cheaper device and no amplification but this was the most no-nonsense device I could get that would load a huge library of music, back it up from the device, and distribute via Sonos. Bonus points for being entirely wireless so I can leave it in a closet. No complaints at all since I'm all Sonos, if you wanted RCA out you will need a DAC to make that happen.

I have a huge collection of CD's. We downsized and I debated discarding them. I found the Brennan B3 on Amazon. I can now enjoy my music through the Brennan Storage player. I am pleased.

I mean a solid four stars for this product at this point. I think five star ratings should be reserved for only those products which truly are remarkably outstanding and stellar. If not quite at that level, I find the B3 to be very good. Perhaps future software enhancements will make it even better. The Brennan company does seem to be innovative and responsive. I do find myself wishing now that a B4 existed which amounted to more of a robust and complete receiver/amplifier, one that featured more inputs and outputs, amplifier power and Bass/Treble/EQ/balance controls (which the B3 currently does not). The B3 does drive my modest Sony bookshelf speakers nicely enough, but at present there are no such balance/tone controls, only volume. More sound controls would be nice. To my mind adding any necessary size and weight to the product in order to achieve that would be worth the added functionality and completeness. In any case I'd advise potential buyers to review their website and the B3 forum to more fully understand the product as it is. I myself am fairly happy with it right now. It fulfills my main purpose for it which is/was to finally rip my entire CD collection (some 1400 CDs at this point) for use with my existing Sonos system. Ripping so many CDs is a lengthy process, but I'm finding the B3 makes it fairly easy and efficient at a reasonable price. It is thankfully quite fast at loading each CD, looking up the database, and then executing the rip. Each CD takes a couple of key presses to commence this, but then it generally completes the rip to WAV files in a couple of minutes. The database is pretty good, though it has failed to recognize a few of my discs out of around 500 CDs ripped thus far. The software lets you edit artist, album, track names, and cover art to correct such instances. Later you can have the B3 compress the WAV files to FLAC or MP3. That process takes a while as well (compresses about 1500 WAV files to FLAC per day is the rate I'm seeing). It's also not too difficult to backup/export what's on the B3 hard drive to a PC, but it could certainly be made easier. I've found the best way is to activate the NAS function of the B3 and then copy the files to my PC via the network. I've also found that process to be somewhat slow however using the included wi-fi dongle. I'm going to try the next iteration of my backup using a wired USB to Ethernet dongle to see if that speeds things up. I tried copying to an external 1TB hard-drive via USB but the gotcha is that the drive must be formatted in FAT32 for the B3 to recognize it, and Windows11 makes it very difficult to successfully achieve that formatting for such a large drive. I wasn't able to get it to work. The B3 really should be able to recognize and work with NTFS-formatted external drives. At present it will not. Anyway, all that said, the B3 is a useful product which is doing what I need it to do. The quality of rips seems to be fine. The sound driving modest bookshelf speakers is quite decent. The unit itself is handsome and feels well made. The software, while basic and functional, has been reasonably solid. There have been a couple of updates to it in the month I've had the B3. Powering down and then re-starting the unit has cleared the few glitches I've experienced after processing many discs in a sitting. It's a new product though, and is already pretty good, if somewhat hardware limited. I'm hoping further software enhancements take it to the point of being even more polished.