Thefalls,
I just dealt with the same problem for the same reason. Here's what I did:
Purchased two 1TB Iomega hard drives from Tigerdirect.com for $89/each.
Purchased a used Logitech Squeezebox3 on Agon for $160.
Ripped all the CDs via itunes onto one of the new drives with my windows xp pc, using AIFF uncompressed format(vs. apple lossless format).
Play them by having Squeezebox3 access the files from the network, and have digital output connected to input of my external dac in my audio rig(see systems page: Goosebump Factory). It was easy to setup(10 minutes) and works great. The only hiccup was wireless vs. ethernet cable from router to squeezebox, as I am in an unusually high RFI environment, yards away from a radio tower. With ethernet connection, 100% signal, and no network buffering trouble.
Cheers,
Spencer
I just dealt with the same problem for the same reason. Here's what I did:
Purchased two 1TB Iomega hard drives from Tigerdirect.com for $89/each.
Purchased a used Logitech Squeezebox3 on Agon for $160.
Ripped all the CDs via itunes onto one of the new drives with my windows xp pc, using AIFF uncompressed format(vs. apple lossless format).
Play them by having Squeezebox3 access the files from the network, and have digital output connected to input of my external dac in my audio rig(see systems page: Goosebump Factory). It was easy to setup(10 minutes) and works great. The only hiccup was wireless vs. ethernet cable from router to squeezebox, as I am in an unusually high RFI environment, yards away from a radio tower. With ethernet connection, 100% signal, and no network buffering trouble.
Cheers,
Spencer