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I want digital audio

I love my hi-fi CD based systems, but I'm sure loving my iPod too! I can take 30-40 uncompressed CDs with me in the car in something the size of a deck of cards. I take all those CDs to the office, or travel anywhere, and pull up any song or CD or playlist and have some tunes. I can't wait for higher storage capacity and better audio capabilities. I can just imagine having my entire CD collection available at the press of a button. I'm sure the bleeding edge components will cost a lot (like the Linn system), but the iPod is setting the model for doing it pretty well for low cost (compared to many high-end systems). Some may turn their shoulder to it, but I think the iPod and the concept of digital audio are exciting and I'm looking forward to seeing where it leads over the next year. I hope someone comes up with a digital "transport" to connect to the DAC of my choice. Perhaps CES 2004 will have surprises for us in this new arena.
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rsbeck
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I have over 1,000 CD's burned to an external hard drive, which
I run with an apple i-book and i-tunes. I plug that into my processor and I have access to the entire catalogue. I don't use
this for critical listening, but it is great for parties. You can let your
guests scroll through the CD's and add to the play-list for the evening, lots of fun. Now that they are making these huge hard drives, you don't have to compress the music, you can rip your whole colection straight to the hard drive uncompressed.
rsbeck
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I connect the external hard drive to the i-book with a Fire Wire.
Then, I actually click on the folder on the hard drive, drag it over
to the i-tunes screen [set on library] and drop it right in the area
where the titles go. This unloads all the titles, but the music stays
on the external hard drive. When I play the music, it plays from the
hard drive. If I disconnect the external hard drive, I still have all
the titles on my screen, but if I click one, nothing plays -- because
the music is on the external hard drive, which is disconnected.
If you drop a rather large file, the whole file of titles has to download before you see any titles, so be patient.

Hope that helps.
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