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Building a Music Server that will play all formats

I'm a mac person but want to build a stand alone music server for my hifi that will play all my MP3 and loss less files BUT most importantly will play flac files all in one simple player. I was thinking a Dell Zino connected to a TBD DAC. Any thoughts on this plan? Thoughts on player? Media Monkey or Songbird?

System: Vandersteen 5A, Rogue 180 monoblocks, Rogue Pre, VPI Classic.

Thanks!
skaplan
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507 posts
 
There are Mac players that play FLAC (Fidelia, Pure Music, Decibel, Audirvana), but why not convert them to ALAC or AIFF?

Songbird is ported to Mac as well.
skaplan OP
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I was under the impression that any conversion basically defeats the purpose of the hi rez file... and I'd rather not spend the time converting. I literally want to load up every digital file I own regardless of type and have it accessible by a a media player. I will look into these players though, Thanks.
sacman
125 posts
 
Try Logitech Squeezebox Touch.
rlwainwright
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Rather than buy a desktop box, why not consider a nice laptop? Simply install Foobar2000 as the DLNA Server and some of its many plug-ins and you're good to go. Foobar2000 will play back virtually every file format and it does so quite well...

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