Only know about FLAC from Andrew's website. Any programs out there that I can download and use for copying and processing CDs to HD ?
I am planning to use an external HD so that I can load it up, disconnect from the PC and take it to the listening room. Are there any HD devices that will pug into the back of SB or the router so that the PC need not be on?
Thanks 'ceejayav', 'Mr_Sukebe' (Thorsten ?) and others. Huge support for SBox here! But is it really of genuine hi-fi quality? Cos Slim Devices also make the Transporter. At £1300 too expensive for me though.
Will my 802.11g router (SpeedTouch 780WL) good enough? 54mbps max goes down to 38mbps in the listening room.
There's been a lot of discussion on the MP3 forum about HDD based devices that plug into an amp....there's not many good ones. You could have a look at the Pixel Magic HD box, but that, like most requires a screen to navigate.
There's the HiFidelio and Cambridge devices as well.
The SB3 is a very good device, very good sound quality (using FLAC or lossless files), and upgradable to use an off board DAC to get even better sound quality.
If you use a NAS box with Slimserver installed, you can plug it into your router and access it witout the PC being on.
You can download Slimserver and a software based SB3 so you can see the interface over on the Slimdevices website
www.slimdevices.com
EAC with the FLAC plug-in is the general recommendation for ripping. There's a guide here to setting up (pinched the link from Triggaaar on the MP3 forums -
http://users.pandora.be/satcp/eac-qs-en.htm). MAke sure you rip to your local (internal) HDD first and then transfer the files to the external HDD.