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Device that plays the USB you made for your car in your home

Hi, 
      In my car and my truck I can random mode play a 32 gig USB with songs in Apple lossless format, it works great.
      There has got to be a reasonably priced gadget that would output on analog rca connections to my home pre-amp and play the high res USB files. So far I have found a CD/USB player that does what I want except it is MP3 file format only and a DAC that does what I want except it is more than I am willing to pay ($1500).
      Anyone know of a gadget that fills the need?
      Thanks! 
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auxinput
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You want a bluray/universal player that has the ability to play ALAC files, has a USB hard-drive input and also has analog RCA outputs.  An example of this would be the Panasonic DP-UB820.  It's currently on sale at Crutchfield for $399.  There are many others as well.  The past couple generations of Oppo players will play ALAC files (103/105/203/205), but they are likely going to be too expensive for you and they are only available as "used".
auxinput
2,920 posts
 
@mlsstl - got it.  I suppose it comes down to how much of a technical DIY person the OP is (morestereostuff).  The Rasberry Pi solution is definitely not an out-of-the-box plug and play solution.  I'm not sure that he want to spend the hours / days on that project to get it to work.  And before you start saying "it's easy", there is a big gap between what you might find easy and what a general consumer would find easy. lol.
auxinput
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guys, the OP is asking for something that "would output on analog rca connections". This was the main reason I had to recommend something as expensive as the $399 Panasonic bluray.

If he has the ability to take a USB or digital COAX signal, then the lower end Sony bluray players will do this just fine (probably around $100 or less).
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