A lot of interesting points in these replies.. i hadn't seen the FitPc until it was mentioned above. At the moment, it looks like I've got about 120Gb of MP3 files, so it would fit on a standard hard-drive. But at £220 + the cost of a drive, and the various bits of software, it doesn't seem like much of a difference with the £479 version of the vortexbox i was looking at - especially with the 'one box does it all' functionality.
i do accept that tagging needs more care. I had been using 'freedb' from my version of EAC, and sometimes while it looks OK, there are variations. I do have MP3tag and use that to try and tidy stuff up. In this context I liked the look of the 'bliss' link that comes with the VB - but I have no experience of it, and perhaps it has its own shortcomings. Most interesting has been the question of FLAC vs MP3 and the testing done by archimago. My CDs - roughly 800-900 - were all ripped via EAC and LAME. I think I selected the option for the highest bitrate, so assuming that's worked, then they should be reasonably OK. The best kit they get played on is via the Touch to a 1984 'Creek 4040' and a similar-vintage set of Celestion Ditton 130s, but this certainly isn't especially 'high end'. I guess I'd thought that going to FLAC on a separate box would be a more future-proof solution for me and my SB kit. I don't know that hearing the difference has been part of the equation, but the comparison test was certainly interesting. I also assume that ripping via a 'one box' vortexbox would be a bit easier than done through the PC? ref the SvrPowerControl - I've installed it, but it doesn't seem to do what I expected to - but i think that's maybe a topic for another thread, and I'll try and search through for answers on that. SB "user" since 2000... 2 x SB1 ; 2 x SB3 ; 2 x Boom ; 1 x Touch ; 1 x Controller Windows 7 and LMS Version: 7.7.3 - 1375965195 Next step... a Vortexbox? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ donmacn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36036 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100416
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