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  1. Thanks, this sounds like a great option. I will definatly give thyis a try. Regarding the question of whether I do need compressed audio as well, the answer is I do. I want to have most of my music on my Ipod - you just do not know what you may feel like listening too.
  2. Thanks Bill and Chris I will try experimenting with smart play list and see how I get on. Dan.
  3. Thanks Bill, This is really heplful and althouth the smart playlist would work, I really want to set up two libraries for easy administration, but can I get two Itunes Libraryies set up that I can see within my opened Itunes application? This way I can really easily manage my main "HiFi" library and see what I have got in my "Portable" libraray without having to reload ITunes every time. Dan.
  4. Hi all, I am just starting up on the whole media server set up and unfortaunly I have very limited cash (due to 2 lovely but expensive children!) So what I have decided to do is take things very slowly and work from the bottom up. I am going to re-encode all my CDs for now into AIFF at 16/44.1 and then take it from there. I will then play then through my vista based PC and Arcam AVR250 home cinema receiver and can use my Ipod touch as the remote. Hopefully I will be able to get a dedicated DAC at a later stage. What I want to do is to re-encode all my CDs to AIFF 16/44.1, for stereo playback though my Arcam amp - this will at least get me going. Whilst the size of these files are fine on my PC, this will not be accetable for my Ipod, so I need to also convert them to AAC or MP3 to make them that much smaller. My approach is to do one massive encoding project of all my CDs into AIFF and put them into an ITunes Library called "HiFi", but then I need to convert them into another library called "Portable" wich will be all the music in "HiFi", but at a more convenient and smaller file size - such as MP3 or AAC. So can I set up two Ipod Library's on the same PC to accomplish this and if so how can I do it? Also, if I can do this will it be easy to maintain going forward. If there are other solutions out there, I would gladly like to hear them, but I really would like to keep the whole library(s) within ITunes. I look forward to the CA word of advice... Dan.
  5. Hi Jimi,<br /> <br /> I agree with you, I can not see the benifit of using the soundcard and the DAC, but I am really new to this subjuct and this extra information has just confussed me!<br /> <br /> However, whilst looking at some other posts on Reference Records, I see Chris mentions that Reference Records suggest the following ...<br /> <br /> "The people at Reference Recordings strongly suggest using a computer with the Lynx Studio AES 16e PCIexpress card connected via AES/EBU to a Berkeley Audio Design Alpha DAC"<br /> <br /> So the question is, what does this extra soundcard to DAC configuration give you as opposed from going straight to DAC via USB. I would really like to understand this as I would like to build my own computer based audio server within the next 6 months and I am using this website to get as much information as possible so that when I do build it, I can get it right!<br /> <br /> Dan.
  6. Hi Paul and all, This is my first post! Yes - I am really interested in this subject. I see a lot of information on this site regarding bit perfect et al, but I see two main issues where your PC (or MAC) is central. 1. Getting the rip bit perfect onto your hard drive. 2. Getting bit perfect data from your hard drive to your DAC (or whatever you are using) For now I am just interested in gettting the rip correct (if I can start this process I can worry about bit perfect data to the DAC at another time) So, if I use Itunes, and use the AIFF import option (with error correction), can I get the rip perfect onto my hard drive on my Vista based PC, or is it not that simple? I see that Chris mentions using iTunesEncode, but is this really necessary. Can't I just use ITunes and get the rip perfect, or do I need these extra add ons to enable me to get my rips perfect. I look forward to hearing your advice, Dan.
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