DannyboyNYC

This may have been brought to everyone's attention but just in case... http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue41/ca_intro.htm Interesting perspectives. What's even more interesting is the divergences in approach and the contradictions.

But what most interested me was the ripping abilities (e.g. FLAC on OS X). Never heard of CDParanoia but it describes pretty much the feeling I get when I rip a CD. Too bad the CD Database lookup didn't catch the title and track names on about 30% of the CDs I've ripped so far (admittedly only a sample of 12). There seemed to be another couple of apps available from the developer - including a metadata editor that looked quite interesting - so I'll be checking sbooth.org from time to time.<br /> <br /> I only use iTunes for podcasts, radio and the 2 or 3 dozen songs I keep in rotation for my iPhone so I am constantly on the prowl for alternate methods for maintaining a music library. My Squeezebox duet is set up to read a music folder which is stored in lossless FLAC on an external hard drive (.5 terabytes is just too much for my laptop). For my music player I prefer Songbird - despite the fact that it is still beta (they only <em>call</em> it version 1.0).<br /> <br /> Your site has earned a place in my RSS reader - keep up the good work. I'd be particularly interested hearing more about affordable DACs, powered monitors and getting a sense of what other readers use for digital hi fi.