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New high end home electronics component is geared towards classical music lovers and can store upwards of 3,600 ripped CDs and associated info, including complete CD booklets.

Fortuna Classical Music, a company dedicated to "the technological and social advancement of classical music" has a new home electronics component out today which is designed to rip and store a massive classical music CD collection. The new Fortuna Maestro is priced at $4,995, which includes the company preloading 1,000 of your CDs free with your order.

The Fortuna Maestro, said its maker, is capable of holding upwards of 3,600 music CDs on its 400GB hard drive. With support for WMA Lossless and MP3 music formats, the Maestro is targeted towards classical music lovers and has a wide array of features including high quality audio output via analog or digital connections to a home theatre system; storing high-resolution scans of full CD booklets; automatic groupings of tracks into works; music collection searches by composer, conductor, performer, ensemble, instrument and multiple other classical music specific criteria; Internet connectivity to download updates; built-in CD ripping; video outputs so one can navigate the music collection on a television; and multiple USB ports.

"In the past, all digital music players were designed for pop music fans," said Fortuna founder and CEO Bill Stensrud in a statement. "When I tried to put my classical music on those players it was tagged so poorly, I couldn't find anything ... We developed Maestro because I love classical music and none of the other digital music players had a clue how to deal with a classical collection."