Im Mac-ignorant, so I cant advise on a mac to flac tool chain. There has to be something out there, certainly something that can rip and encode a cd in significantly less than 30 minutes. You might want to search over at the hyrdogenaudio.org forums.
At the risk of offending mac sensibilities (which is not my intent) you might also want to consider building yourself an intel based, linux running dedicated slimserver box. Ive recently put together several systems using the P4P800-MX Asus motherboards in Antec Minuet cases using the Zalman CNPS6500A-Cu for passive cpu cooling. This combination, running Fedora in headless mode, makes an attractive, small and extremely quiet music server from readily available parts. You can fit two (or three with a little work) SATA hard disks into the little case so right off the bat you could have yourself a 800gig music server for less $ than that $1000 DAC. -- gharris999 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
