Innuous Zen MKII Music Server/Ripper/Harddrive

Description

 

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The Zen MkII Series models were designed to optimise music playback using three key areas: minimising power noise, reducing vibration and optimising firmware. Each of these areas is increasingly built up throughout the range, with the Mini having basic elements such as a floating optical drive platform to reduce vibration, the Zen with its Linear PSU and extensive anti-vibration chassis treatment and the Zenith with its Triple-Linear PSU and SSD storage. ZEN MkII Music Server Series perfectly embodies our core principles to bring Digital Music to new heights.

InnuOS Operating System Design

INTELLIGENT CD RIPPING

Bit-Perfect Ripping

Using AccurateStream technology, extract every last bit of your CDs into WAV or FLAC files.

Automatic CD Ripping

Just pop-in a CD! innuOS will automatically get full album data and cover from multiple online databases, rip your CD and eject when done.

Assisted CD Ripping

Assisted CD Ripping allows you to see and edit all the album data and cover obtained from the online databases before you rip the CD. Great for Classical Music!

Quiet Mode

Love to listen to music whilst ripping your CDs and want absolute silence? Just engage Quiet Mode for slowing down ripping, making it much quieter and with less vibration.

Offline Ripping

CDs can be ripped without internet connection. When connected, album data and cover for all offline ripped CDs will be obtained with a simple click.

InnuOS Operating System

DIGITAL MUSIC IMPORT

Import Wizards for Existing Libraries

Pre-defined wizards for importing music from USB storage, Music Servers and NAS.

Intelligent Import Engine

innuOS takes all the hard work of importing music by intelligently analysing the music files and applying a number of rules such as:

Organising the music based on format quality (compressed, cd quality or high-resolution), Artist and Album

Removing very long file names or illegal characters

Adding metadata to WAV files based on folder structure

Download from Online Stores

Qobuz, Linn Records, HD Tracks, HiResAudio, B&W Society of Sound, iTunes, Amazon and more. Just download the music files (even if they are in a zip or tar file) to the Auto Import shared folder and the server will take care of adding and updating the music library.

InnuOS Operating System

MUSIC LIBRARY MANAGEMENT

Edit or Delete Albums

Browse your library, select the album you want to update and just start editing directly on your tablet or smartphone. You can change the cover, manage genres based on previously used genres or simply delete the album – couldn’t be easier.

Quarantine

Quarantine is a staging area, separate from the Music Library, where any albums requiring attention are placed so they can be fixed before they go into the Music Library. These include:

Albums with no metadata

Ripped albums with damaged tracks

Potentially duplicated albums

Albums ripped offline

 Automatic Music Library Update

After music is added, modified or deleted, the library is automatically updated as well as any connected systems such as Sonos or UPnP Streamers.

InnuOS Operating System Design

MUSIC SERVER MANAGEMENT

Automatic Network Identification

No more figuring out IP addresses find your server. Just go to my.innuos.com on your tablet or smartphone to list all Innuos devices on the network and access the innuOS App from there.

Remote Updates

Update the system with a touch of a button to benefit from our continuous improvements: new functionalities, enriched customer experience or enhanced sound quality.

Automatic Backup to USB Drive or NAS

Backup of your music library can be set on innuOS to start automatically based on library growth (e.g. every time 50 CDs are added) to either a USB backup drive or to a NAS on the network.

InnuOS Operating System Design

HI-FI MUSIC PLAYER

Rediscover Your Music and Discover New One

Play all your music as well as Internet Radio and streaming services with the best sound quality by connecting directly to a DAC or Digital Amplifier via asynchronous USB.

Spotify, Tidal and Qobuz require premium subscriptions

Supports All Major Music Formats

The innuOS Music Player plays FLAC, DSD, MQA, WAV, Apple Lossless, AIFF, M4A and MP3 supporting bitrates up to 32bit/384KHz and DSD256, when connecting to compatible DACs

Roon Player is also now available.

The innuOS Music Player can optionally become a Roon player so you can use the amazing Roon interface to explore your music like never before.

InnuOS Operating System

STREAMERS AND MULTI-ROOM SYSTEMS

Perfect Integration with Sonos

innuOS can automatically connect its music library to a Sonos system at the touch of a button as well as automatically rescan the Sonos Music Library when any album is added, modified or deleted from the Music Library.

Fast and Reliable UPnP Server

innuOS also contains a UPnP Server configured out-of-the-box to work flawlessly with a number of UPnP-based systems:

Wireless multi-room: such as Denon HEOS, Bang & Olufsen and BOSE amongst others

Music streamers such as Naim, Linn , Moon, Auralic and many others

Roon Server

innuOS will also optionally integrate Roon Core* so you can use innuOS with other Roon-Ready streamers for a complete multi-room system.

* A Roon license, purchased separately, is required

Home Automation

innuOS can be integrated with the most popular home automation control systems such as RTI, Control4, KNX, AMX, Elan, Crestron and iRidium.