FLAC for quality, tagging and trouble-free streaming. Best thing since
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Pale Blue Ego;189639 Wrote:
DRM has not prevented a single song from making it to P2P, so DRM does
not prevent file sharing.
Good point. Any kind of DRM *will* be broken sooner or later.
For me, the biggest threat that the decline of the CD brings is that
once online distribution becomes the
Mark Lanctot;189491 Wrote:
See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31616
Also Josh Coalson (the FLAC developer) usually lists FLAC download
sources as they appear at http://flac.sourceforge.net/news.html.
You'll have to scroll down a bit.
thanks I'll have a look
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Pale Blue Ego wrote:
DRM has not prevented a single song from making it to P2P, so DRM does
not prevent file sharing.
And more importantly, DRM has not resulted in any increase in money paid
to artists, musicians, recording engineers, etc.
Current economics make it such that musicians make
One can debate whether DRM has or has not been effective (or even can
be), but the concept (not the technical implementation) is still one of
the guiding lights for the music industry. (An industry, I might add,
that has always been in a love/hate relationship with musicians and
composers.)
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mlsstl wrote:
One can debate whether DRM has or has not been effective (or even can
be), but the concept (not the technical implementation) is still one of
the guiding lights for the music industry. (An industry, I might add,
that has always been in a love/hate relationship with musicians and
I would say given the level of your system you should be considering a
Transporter or SB/External DAC equivalent.
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Thank you for your detailed help. I had not really considered all that a
Squeezebox could do. However, the only things that are important to me
at this time -- however that may change -- is the ability to use the
files on my Mac Mini with my stereo system AND to be able to access my
playlists,
The other player to consider is the Sonos system.. it does somethings
better than SB somethings not as well.
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Apple DRM can be circumvented by burnig a CD and reimporting to Itunes.
If Itunes offers lossless in the future there would be no degradation
in SQ.
There are some software programs that will do this automatically.
You might want to listen to a Transporter before going with the SB, it
is one of
azinck3;189647 Wrote:
6. Do you care about anytime access to a central database of music that
you can access over the internet via slimserver?
Azinck3, could you please expand that line a bit more? I am still
exploring SB...
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Hi Ronald,
so it sounds like you want to get data out over the S/PDIF, but feed
the clock in to the SB3. This should work fine.
Taking a 74HC chip directly into a 75 ohm impedance is not a good idea,
they are not designed for this.
I would just leave the S/PDIF as is since you are reclocking
at the last minute changed my mind and purchased a Transporter instead.
I am really pleased that I did. I have now hooked up the digital
outputs from my satellite receiver and my ancient DAT Recorder and have
immediate benefits. (do not have a DAC).
The Transporter was very easy to set up, just
smarjan;189754 Wrote:
Azinck3, could you please expand that line a bit more? I am still
exploring SB...
Slimserver is a server application that runs on your computer and does
2 things, primarily:
1) serve music/data to hardware players like the SB or transporter and
software players like
The thing I don't get is why anyone would want to buy DRM files
(lossless or not) from anywhere...It's certainly not something I will
ever do. I don't want music to be licensed to me - I want to own
it...and do anything with it that is legal / fair use.
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creativepart;189638 Wrote:
I like the SQ concept, but with the Mac Mini I get a remote control and
iTunes and built in WiFi so I'm pretty set. With the AEX I could be up
and running off of iTunes in an hour or less using the AEX's internal
DAC.
With the Mac Mini you also get an optical
jhm731;189768 Wrote:
With the Mac Mini you also get an optical digital output which you can
plug directly into a external DAC. Buy a DAC, optical cable and a small
display for your Mac Mini and you're done.
Why do you think mere having optical out guarantees quality of that
mini sound card
I was wondering how hard it is to add a wordclock out to the SB3 and a
wordclock in to my DAC (MF X-DACv3)...so that the DAC can slave to the
sb3 without relying on the SPDIF clock...anyone done anything like
this? - is it a DIY option?
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valeite;189757 Wrote:
(...)
I could see me wanting to buy a DAC if I had gone with the SB3 this way
I am happy and do not have to justify a further purchase with She That
Must Be Obeyed.
Great to hear you a pleased with the purchase of your Transporter. I
can imagine you are but your last
valeite;189757 Wrote:
at the last minute changed my mind and purchased a Transporter instead.
I am really pleased that I did. I have now hooked up the digital
outputs from my satellite receiver and my ancient DAT Recorder and have
immediate benefits. (do not have a DAC).
The Transporter
valeite;189757 Wrote:
at the last minute changed my mind and purchased a Transporter instead.
I am really pleased that I did. I have now hooked up the digital
outputs from my satellite receiver and my ancient DAT Recorder and have
immediate benefits. (do not have a DAC).
The Transporter
Phil Leigh;189773 Wrote:
I was wondering how hard it is to add a wordclock out to the SB3 and a
wordclock in to my DAC (MF X-DACv3)...so that the DAC can slave to the
sb3 without relying on the SPDIF clock...anyone done anything like
this? - is it a DIY option?
I don't see how that would
When you get your Mac Mini, be sure to disable (under pref. in iTunes)
the sound candy such as eq, soundcheck and enhancer.
Under applications-utilities-find midi and see that 44.1kHz is
checked. Also, be sure that iTunes and the main Mini volume are set at
max, and use you pre-amp/receiver
-Stef-;189774 Wrote:
your last remark makes no sense to me
Simple. In some households it's easier to justify one large purchase
instead of a series of smaller upgrades.
The original poster is pleased with the Transporter, his spouse has
okayed it, and he since he now has a state-of-the-art
A mate bought an airport express, only had it working for 1/2 hour or
so, and then put it back in the box. Apparently he could not live with
the sound it was producing. I did not listen and don't know exactly how
he set it up, so I'm afraid I can't comment on set up etc. After
further research
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325xi;189770 Wrote:
Why do you think merely having optical out guarantees quality of that
mini sound card feeding that out?
Why do you think the SB's digital output would sound any better
than the Mac Mini's digital output? Have you compared them?
There are several reasons
jhm731;189791 Wrote:
Why do you think the SB's digital output would sound any better than the
Mac Mini's digital output? Have you compared them?
I don't state one is better then the other, but when someone tells me
he's going to use generic laptop soundcard I would be concerned, unless
I know
I just stumbled upon a particularly interesting discussion: RF engineer
(Sean) shares his thought of what could be the ultimate speaker cable.
No, not a zip cord this time.
http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=cablesn=85528highlight=Goertz+Seansession=
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Question:
I'm thinking of getting an sd3 to intergrate with my existing hifi and
possibly replace my cd collection. I currently have an arcam a85 amp
and cd73 cd player with a pair of dynaudio focus 110 all set up in my
living room. My windows xp machine currently has all my music stored on
it, but they
Well, the clock cable is hardwired into the SB as a wordclock in. My
DAC has a wordclock out, so the DAC is the clock master.
Lessloss is convinced this is The Way to go. The best I can
understand, having two competing clocks that don't mesh perfectly are a
big source of jitter. Having the
miklorsmith;189805 Wrote:
Well, the clock cable is hardwired into the SB as a wordclock in. My
DAC has a wordclock out, so the DAC is the clock master.
Lessloss is convinced this is The Way to go. The best I can
understand, having two competing clocks that don't mesh perfectly are a
big
srw;189804 Wrote:
Do I need to rip all my music again to flac to get the best quality
Yes.
and use a dac to get as good results as a dedicated cdp?
Yes. In and of itself the sound of the stock Squeezebox 2/3 is pretty
unspectacular. If you want to minimize boxes, you can have the SB3
valeite;189785 Wrote:
I have other digital equipment that I can make better use of, using the
Transporters DAC. I could not have done this with the SB3 although
(...)
I really don't want to be a bother but in the two quotes I've posted
you say the SB3's DAC wouldn't perform the same but you
The SB3 does not have the facility to connect my other digital sources
to it through a digital input, whereas the Transporter does improving
the sound from those devices in particular the DAT Recorder which has
really benefited by using the Transporters DAC.
I do not now need to buy a DAC for my
valeite;189817 Wrote:
The SB3 does not have the facility to connect my other digital sources
to it through a digital input, whereas the Transporter does improving
the sound from those devices in particular the DAT Recorder which has
really benefited by using the Transporters DAC.
I do not
That's OK I am sorry my original posts were not more clear.
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The Mac Mini isn't a laptop.
I haven't seen any published jitter specs for any Mac products other
Stereophile's test of the $129. Airport Express, which measured 258ps
using a Musical Fidelity X-DACV3 DAC verses their 321ps measurement for
the SB3.
I'll bet the digital outputs on the
325xi;189770 Wrote:
Why do you think merely having optical out guarantees quality of that
mini sound card feeding that out?
Or the Airport Express, for that matter. This serious review of the
AEX digital out --
http://www.stereophile.com/budgetcomponents/505apple/ -- sounds upbeat,
but
Nominal impedance: All of their speaker cables offer a nominal
impedance that is below 10 ohms, so it does not interfere / create
impedance bumps between the amp and speaker.
10 Ohms!!! Huh??
Time smear: By using one conductor, the signal path remains one length
regardless of
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