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| Which hard drive for digital music server? Er, I've had four drives go bad on me. I definitely think RAID 5 is worth it, esp. now that you can get RAID 5 NAS boxes for under a grand. And, while my CDs are a "backup", the pain of ripping 2000 CDs is something I will gladly spend a grand not... | |
| recording from itunes That said, I read that the iTMS is going to start offing Apple Lossless versions of some tracks. Looks like the audiophiles have started making some impact there. | |
| Programs for File management - HELP Kublakhan, what format did you rip too? Some formats, like WAV, do not actually support tagging in any standardized way. In my mind, a "tag" is a data element that is actually part of the music file, hence portable as the file is copied from one p... | |
| Ipod and accessory power help Didn't your iPod come with a wall charger?Try googling "USB Charger"; you'll come up with lots of stuff like http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000167V46/sr=8-1/qid=1149864671/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-7782061-4092754?%5Fencoding=UTF8 | |
| Digital Cable Tuner - Can I buy and use my own?? Hey, once the whole industry cooperates and we get to the FCC-mandated STB open standards with cableCARD compatibility, everything will be just fine. Just don't hold your breath. | |
| can't get waveterminal u24 to output analog right I had some odd issues with a U24 on a machine that I hadn't been using recently... I downloaded the latest drivers from the ESI site, however, and all the issues went away. Granted, not the same issues you are having, but refreshing the drivers mi... | |
| Sonos VS CD Transport My computer based system in my study sounds better to my ear than my Theta David for sound... The one upstairs gives my Teac Esoteric DV50S a run for the money. Of course, I just use my computer (Windows XP box with some sound deadening), gobs of ... | |
| Need help moving from CDP to Mac Mini music server "But with a USB controller generating its own word-clock signal, the frequency remains steady." Well, only as steady as the clock in the USB interface. It is not a panacea, because some USB chips are pretty bad jitter-wise. | |
| Need help moving from CDP to Mac Mini music server Matt, be careful, RAID striping gets you transfer speed, not redundancy. Let me try RAID 5 again. Say you want to store 3 numbers -- 012, 147, and 532. With the four disks, RAID 5 puts 012 on Disk A in Block/Sector X. In that same Block/Sector on ... | |
| Exact Audio Copy Questions Aaaah. I use AAC for lossless compression. The other downside of WAV is the lack of tags, which either APE or AAC (or FLAC, or ...) will fix. I chose AAC because it was used more commonly and had broader support. | |
| Exact Audio Copy Questions I thought Monkey Audio was APE, not WAV? Why use that anyway, since WAV is just the computer file version of the raw PCM data, and what EAC natively rips too? You do not have to type in directory names. If you look under "EAC Options" and click on... | |
| Need help moving from CDP to Mac Mini music server Matt,I can't vouch for the Yellow Machine, but I do own a terastation. It is very quiet. Besides, one benefit of a NAS is that it can be put anywhere you can run ethernet (i.e., a closet somewhere). It also means it can be accessed by any computer... | |
| Need help moving from CDP to Mac Mini music server In this vein, just saw a dealhack note--the 1TB terastations are available from http://www.buy.com for $670, shipping included. | |
| Need help moving from CDP to Mac Mini music server Whups, not Big Yellow Box, the other terastation-like thing I found was the "Yellow Machine."Here's links to both:http://www.yellowmachine.com/products/index.htmhttp://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=97Both seem to run ab... | |
| Need help moving from CDP to Mac Mini music server I have not had good luck with consumer drives (Maxstor, LaCie) in a environment where they are on 24/7. I'd suggest looking at something like the 1TB Buffalo Terastation or a similar thing called the Big Yellow Box or something like that. You get ... |