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  1. aha Mac mini (Mid 2010) and later: Frequently asked questions about HDMI
  2. yes or no? why is this question so hard to answer? try googling it, i have read over a dozen threads so far and have yet to see a straight answer to this. i figure if anyone knows, you guys do! (my mini is a 2011 btw).
  3. should have added i tried audirvana before PM (actually i trialed both at the same time) and audirvana would not work with itunes. there aren't very many options to mess with in audirvana and i tried them all, also started a thread somewhere (probably here). creating playlists to listen with audirvana is just to clunky and my wife would never do it, so itunes integration was a deal killer. haven't ever tried amarra though. i should add that i do not surf the web or use the mini when listening to music, the music player is the only active program being used during music playback, and shut down when i am doing something else.
  4. thanx to both of you, esp. you bob, as that may be my problem. i have the hdmi connected to a denon avr4311. i do not leave it powered on all the time, so i will see if it holds the settings you suggested when powered off and on. if not, then a device like i mentioned above may help. i remember reading a thread on apple's forum where the apple rep said mini's were not supposed to hold settings in the MIDI as it was not designed to do this. the rep said apple had no idea (?!?) that people would be plugging the HDMI into a receiver and not just straight into a TV??? i think they have solved this in later model mini's.
  5. i have pure music and a 2010 mini. i am pretty much a noob at both. my music is stored on a synology NAS. i am posting here with this question because i am hoping to get some responses that are maybe not so "audiophile" and more "computer" based. the problem i am having (and this is something that may rub some "audiophiles" the wrong way) is that i am using my mini as a full HTPC, not just as a dedicated music server. i want to be able to go online, watch movies, listen to music, etc. i have read reviews that have stated that pure music can have problems with this. what i want to have happen is that when i click on pure music i want my mini to play through the usb/DAC output (HRT streamer), and when i shut down pure music i want it to revert to HDMI for audio output (for netflix, youtube, et al). what is occasionally happening is that when i shut down pure music and click on netflix i get no sound. checking the apple MIDI shows that it is still using the HRT streamer output. if i manually switch it to HDMI, then it doesn't want to switch back to HRT streamer when i go back to pure music (sometimes it isn't even possible as HRT is greyed out?). i can still play music with HDMI out through pure music, which i'm guessing is just using the mini's DAC and bypassing the HRT altogether. so a whole bunch of thoughts go through my head in the why/how department. 1. why is this happening? i have "hog" mode checked in pure music. i have a hard time wrapping my head around this, but shouldn't this force the midi to use the HRT streamer when pure music is playing? because often it's not, it's using the HDMI instead. is this not how hog mode works? is there a MIDI setting that i have wrong? should i be needing to mess with MIDI settings in the first place? 2. how can i get this to work? if all works OK on just HDMI and if the only drawback is that i am bypassing my external DAC then should i just use that? i realize that most here will think that you will take a big hit sound quality wise, but i personally just don't hear that huge a diff with different DAC's. 3. is there some other workaround that might help? i contacted pure music and they said that a device like geffen's hdmi detective might help the midi remember the settings. any one have any experience with this, not super expensive if it works? thanx in advance for your help. - mike (ratso)
  6. just downloaded the demo version, and like many here it seems, cannot get itunes integration to work. most commonly it either just gives me a spinning rainbow, goes to the wrong cd, or gives me an error message. i am hesitant to buy the program on hopes it can be figured out as lack of itunes support would be a deal killer, specifically for remote support. to load a track manually is like a 7 step process (find nas, click through five levels of files, drag and drop to audirvana, click play). my wife would never do any of this, and i don't want to. i want to just click on the cd in my ipad remote and it works. if this isn't possible, may i suggest/is it possible for audirvana to come up with there own ipad/iphone/android remote program to automate all of the above and bypass itunes all together? oh yes, and one with full screen cover art? sound quality is great and it integrates nicely with my other programs (spec. video) so i would like this to work.
  7. aha! an easy workaround, mucho appreciato
  8. (noob alert!!!). i am thinking hard about a mac mini. as long as i am building an audio server, might as well make it a video server too. can you have it set up to output video/5.1 surround by HDMI when i click on a video and 2 channel audio output by USB to DAC when i click on an audio file? or do you have to go in and change settings? thanx in advance for the help!
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