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wonderboynjI know there are lots of Mac guys on this list, so I thought I may throw this question out to you...
My roommate just invested LOTS of money into a high end audio system and he wants to have a music server on it. I've suggested he just use a MacMini and drive iTunes as a server, with an attached firewire drive. Originally that's what he was going to do.
The guy at the store he purchased the equipment from talked him out of that, and suggested he just purchased an actual music server. He says the circuitry on the mac isn't built for playing music.
I think the guy's just trying to get him to spend a lot more money.
But my question is, does anyone know of one of the high end (or even a medium end) music server that plays the .m4a format? Especially ones that came from the iTunes music store?
My roommate just invested LOTS of money into a high end audio system and he wants to have a music server on it. I've suggested he just use a MacMini and drive iTunes as a server, with an attached firewire drive. Originally that's what he was going to do.
The guy at the store he purchased the equipment from talked him out of that, and suggested he just purchased an actual music server. He says the circuitry on the mac isn't built for playing music.
I think the guy's just trying to get him to spend a lot more money.
But my question is, does anyone know of one of the high end (or even a medium end) music server that plays the .m4a format? Especially ones that came from the iTunes music store?
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Date: 2006-07-02 04:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-02 04:32 pm (UTC)Not that he purchases a *lot* from the iTunes music store, but he has a mac now now, and an iPod, so why get into something that's not going to let him use his pre-existing format. Everything he has ripped he's done in the .m4a format.
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Date: 2006-07-02 05:13 pm (UTC)My set up is this: Desktop with über RAID has all the music (over 106GB of music at the moment, and getting bigger all the time). It also has an Airport card, which talks to the Airport Express module hooked up optically to my stereo. The playlists are shared over the network, so I have my laptop downstairs actually controlling the music that is sent via the desktop to the airport express.
The laptop is basically like a 5lb remote control with a giant screen.
The set-up took about 10 minutes to get going. Plug everything in, make sure itunes is sharing playlists, and configure the Airport Express to ride piggyback on the Wifi network. Simple and easy.