Your set-up sounds like it will be very easy to manage. I use a mac to manage my itunes library, which actually resides on a shared drive on a PC. It would be a lot easier if it was all just on a mac, but my macs are laptops. iTunes has its issues but unless you're doing something incredibly specific, it is capable and seamless.
Only difficulty I had was that MP3s of various historical provenance caused all kinds of problems in slimserver. If you read the forums, you'll mostly discover that this occurs because there are mixed MP3 tags. Fixing them in iTunes won't necessarily fix the problem. This was a HUGE pain. In the end, I found the AAC format kept tags intact. Since I was ripping/re-ripping music anyway, I frankly found it easier to get everything out of MP3 format. YMMV. One other issue I had was that Slimserver doesn't necessarily like files with foreign characters - it just doesn't "see" them. I don't know if this is a windows or mac and windows version, but necessitated renaming a lot of stuff to be able to play them on squeezebox. This is for me a major problem (and will be hard to retransition back in future), since I have a lot of foreign music. And if you're ripping anything new/re-ripping old stuff, I have only one hint: re-rip at the highest possible bitrate/lowest compression you can conceivably live with. If lossless, all the better - hard drive space is a lot cheaper now. Good luck. -- gsalton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gsalton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32462 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
