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hello all,
I am just about to start to rebuild my digital music collection after a dead hard drive, my question is what is the best file format for music, which will let me store my music on a NAS to be played on a Mac mini using iTunes, but also the beosound Essence using the app aa well as a playmaker and also in the future a moment.
thanks
Toby
If you don't rely on iTunes, go for FLAC.
If you need iTunes, you are in trouble
MM
There is a tv - and there is a BV
"You think we can slap some oak on this thing?"
If you go for a NAS, invest in a unit that supports two drives setup as RAID 1, where the second drive is a mirror of the first one. This will protect you from hard drive failures. If one drive fails you replace it and the system copies all files from the other drive back to the new drive.
Jeff
I'm afraid I'm recovering from the BeoVirus.
If you have the space, AIFF is great or at half the size Apple Lossless. I believe that AIFF will play well with most quality products.
Thank you all,
I have just brought up an ssd for my Mac mini.
i do have a Qnap NAS but being a bit silly had not backed up my music collection to it while I was sorting out all the metadata on my iTunes file.luckily I had backed up an old copy to my external hard drive.
Trying to find a file format that works perfectly betwen iTunes (needed as I have music on my iPhone and iPad), beosound moment, the essence and a playmaker, is more difficult than I thought, think AIFF may be the format to go for ( but the essence does not support this format according to the B&O website).
Years of using iTunes has also messed up the file structure of the music so, think I will spend a while trying to sort out my old backup and transferring files from Appleloss less to AIFF