I purchased the squeezebox duet a while ago, and it has been a frustrating experience, to say the least. I am currently listening to CDs via a benchmark DAC (non USB) and Genelec 8040s, and have an Ipad.
What could be the simplest way to set up a system to listen to music from a a hard disk, ripped via itunes in AIFF, and control it with the ipad? Possibly without having a computer on all the time? I read about iPeng to control the squeezebox, but how can I connect a hard disk without a PC?
I obviously have made the wrong experiments, as it seems that some simple info is missing to allow it all to work.
If necessary, I can use an old Mac Power Pc G5 or a win xp notebook as a dedicated remote server, connected via ethernet; I'd rather not get an extra Mac mini, which it seems would solve the problem.
Thanks to everyone who can suggest solutions.
D.