Eric Seaberg wrote:
I'd really rather NOT re-rip everything with FLAC. I have thought about it just to get the extra quality bump, but iTunes won't read them which, for me anyway, REALLY puts a crimp in my tag editing and organization for SlimServer. As a Mac user, there just aren't as many options to work with FLAC yet.
This was a problem for us too until I discovered mt-daapd, an open source music server (functionally somewhat similar to Slimserver) that speaks DAAP, Apple's protocol for sharing iTunes collections over a LAN.
I run mt-daapd alongside Slimserver on the Linux box that has our music library. The clients see iTunes' native file formats (.mp3, .m4a, .m4p, .wav) unchanged, while non-iTunes formats like .flac and .ogg automatically appear to iTunes as WAV files.
The two servers coexist nicely. We can now use iTunes/mt-daapd for its superior search and seeking features and Slimserver for when we want to play something through a Squeezebox and good speakers.
Unfortunately, DAAP is read-only, so iTunes cannot edit tags on a remote server.
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