mwheelerk
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If you were setting up a music server today ... Early on I used an Apple TV>DAC>integrated Amp. The Apple TV was wireless using an AirPort Extreme. It is my understanding though that ATV is not now bit perfect and converts everything to 16/48 and then of course doesn't support high res (2... | |
Downloading & Converting Music Abruce what kind of problem are you having with metadata? What file format do you use for your music? | |
Jplay vs Amarra, PC vs. Mac Compute Audiophile is a good source of information. Check out their FAQ and the CA Academy along with there CAPS which provide detailed instructions of building your own PC Based music server. I use a Mac Mini as I am not inclined or capable of me... | |
Pure Music or Amarra with iMac I own both Pure Music and Audivrana + and have demoed Amarra. My preference is Audivrana. Macs dynamically select USB ports so sometimes you have to fiddle around to ensure connection to one of the high speed USB ports. I recommend using XLD to ri... | |
Perhaps a stupid question, .... but... Pure Music does have a feature called Playthrough which supports other audio sources such as Internet radio. The user manual describes the set up. | |
JRiver Media Center vs. Amarra With JRiver for Mac being in such early stages of beta testing I don't know that a comparison at this point would be viable. It might be best to wait for the full official release version to make such comparison. | |
Pure Music 1.88a And. By the. Way I think there has been three updates since 1.88 | |
Pure Music 1.88a Download. Open the download. Drag the PM icon into your Applications folder. Answer yes to replace. Open PM. Hit play. Enjoy. | |
Rip CD to Mac - basic question If you are using a Mac then XLD or MAX would be the tools of choice for ripping CDs. In preferences you can determine the location of the files and they do not need to be used with iTunes. Some of the playback softwares used on Mac (Audivrana +, P... | |
Amarra HiFi and 24/96 FLAC Files - Heads Up FLAC files are not directly supported by iTunes. I know both Audivrana Plus and Pure Music work with iTunes and support FLAC files. I have done a demo of Amarra but to my ears it was no better than either PM or A+. | |
Pure Music option to convert to Apple Lossless I had never noticed that. I always use XLD. | |
What can I do to improve my computer? I run a Mac so my comments might be off the mark but generally maximum your RAM and minimizes services on the laptop you don't need. For instance on my Mac Mini I disable Spotlight and energy savings such as screen saver. Are you using iTunes as y... | |
iTunes dropping album artwork What format are your files? How do you add artwork to your iTunes files? | |
Pure Music option to convert to Apple Lossless I am not familiar with Pure Music being able to transcode files from one audio codec to another. It is a music playback software rather than a process software (rip, extract, transcode). It does allow for the playback of FLAC files but it uses iTu... | |
This may be a dumb question... Since you are using FLAC files I assume you are on a PC and not MAC. What software doe you now use to import your CDs as FLAC files? That software (dbPoweramp, EAC etc) should have the ability to transcode the files to ALAC, AIFF or WAV for use on... |