In Reply to: 25 years of CD player progress posted by jsm71 on July 18, 2012 at 04:49:41:
"This versitility was key because I really don't want to mess with servers as the only way to play digital sources. I have worked in IT for close to 40 years and I just don't want to mess with that stuff at home."
Ah, what you need my friend is a Mac music server. Set it and forget it. No virus scans, no blue screen of death, no bloatware cluttering your screen and bogging down the system, and significantly less frequent patches and annoying security updates from the mother ship MS.
Mac is UNIX based and rock solid. I too have worked in IT for many years and finally made the switch to Mac only 5 years ago after a long history of pain and frustration from the days of DOS through Windows 7.
Putting on my flame retardant suit awaiting my dowsing of gasoline from Apple haters. ;-)
Congrats on the new CD player! A computer based music server takes it to the next level making it even more convenient to access all your tunes with comparable audio quality. Modern DACs are pretty decent these days.
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Follow Ups
- RE: 25 years of CD player progress - AbeCollins 09:43:58 07/18/12 (16)
- Macs are nice, but... - rlw 13:21:51 07/19/12 (0)
- Even the modest Squeezebox - E-Stat 15:49:39 07/18/12 (9)
- And those Unix/Linux systems... - rlw 13:29:22 07/19/12 (7)
- Lack of software for Mac, Unix/Linux has always been an issue for me as well. - willkayakforfood 16:16:02 07/19/12 (6)
- Very weak argument when you consider.... - AbeCollins 22:50:29 07/22/12 (5)
- Very weak argument when you consider.... (right back atchya)... - willkayakforfood 23:07:59 07/22/12 (4)
- You've been told ??? - AbeCollins 11:18:55 07/23/12 (3)
- Yes, I've been told. What's so difficult to understand in that? - willkayakforfood 11:26:06 07/24/12 (2)
- And like I said, - AbeCollins 15:08:17 07/24/12 (1)
- RE: And like I said, - pictureguy 13:18:31 07/26/12 (0)
- RE: Even the modest Squeezebox - AbeCollins 16:28:38 07/18/12 (0)
- RE: 25 years of CD player progress - jsm71 12:07:20 07/18/12 (0)
- What Abe Said...Except Substitute Mac with Linux - Dynobot 10:57:38 07/18/12 (3)
- I play with Linux, too. - AbeCollins 14:15:13 07/18/12 (0)
- RE: What Abe Said...Except Substitute Mac with Linux - blattus 11:18:56 07/18/12 (1)
- RE: What Abe Said...Except Substitute Mac with Linux - AbeCollins 14:22:04 07/18/12 (0)