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External Hard Drives w/audiophile component...help

With todays market of internal hard drive components for digital music...I still have not found what I am looking for and could use some help. I would like to purchase a superior component for digital playback but have the ability to add external hard drives to hold the music without adding a computer to my system.

I would also like to display on the television monitor album art and digial tage information I have embedded in the digital file (or even folder). I would also like to add song lists created on the computer and (as if this is not already asking enough) run some of the inovative digital art programs if not displaying album art.

All my digital music will be in either high bit-rate lossy compression (mp3) or lossless compression. Any suggestions? Thank you for your time. Glenn
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mikeyla
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I'm currently using the digital-out on a Redwine Audio Modded Olive Musica as a transport. It's a one piece unit with a 250G hard drive. You can connect two external usb hard drives and it has wireless connection to any UpnP device ie NAS etc... There is a small front display, in addition any computer with a browser can be use as a frontend interface. I use a Samsung Q1b tablet ultra portable, some folks are using the new Nokia 770.

You might want to look at the Escient Fireball and McIntosh Music Server. They cost more but they may have the video features you are looking for. I have not use either product - all I wanted was a hard drive based transport. I believe the McIntosh had an Escient Fireball under the hood. 6moons.com had a 12/31/05 review.

Hope this helps.
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