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I 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?
