Re: Tips?: hardware... media playback device

2010-06-21 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:14:04PM +1000, David wrote: > [ ... ] > Does anyone know of a device designed for audio playback of stored music > files without a TV being necessary such as I've described, or is a > laptop computer the only way to do it?? If the latter, can you get a > better quality ou

Re: Tips?: hardware... media playback device

2010-06-21 Thread Andre Mangan
This URL may give you the information on the hardware you want, David: http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#hardware As for playing any kind of music through your hi-fi amplifier, why use a hard drive? Will a CD not suffice? On some amplifiers, you can easily separate the preamplifier from th

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Re: Tips?: hardware... media playback device

2010-06-21 Thread David Fawcett
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Basil Chupin wrote: > On 21/06/10 22:14, David wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I don't know much about hardware. I'd be grateful for some advice on > > what device to buy with which I can play back digital music files > > through a conventional hifi amplifier, a device tha

Re: Tips?: hardware... media playback d evice

2010-06-21 Thread Callan Jefferson Davies
> I don't know much about hardware. I'd be grateful for some advice on > what device to buy with which I can play back digital music files > through a conventional hifi amplifier, a device that either has a hard > drive or can be connected to an external hard drive. I hope to find a > solution that

Re: Tips?: hardware... media playback d evice

2010-06-21 Thread Basil Chupin
On 21/06/10 22:14, David wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know much about hardware. I'd be grateful for some advice on > what device to buy with which I can play back digital music files > through a conventional hifi amplifier, a device that either has a hard > drive or can be connected to an external hard

Tips?: hardware... media playback device

2010-06-21 Thread David
Hi, I don't know much about hardware. I'd be grateful for some advice on what device to buy with which I can play back digital music files through a conventional hifi amplifier, a device that either has a hard drive or can be connected to an external hard drive. I hope to find a solution that'll p