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Meanwhile the AVS forums has an active thread called
Lossless music on hard drive vs. CD which has some discussion of the Logitech/Slim Devices
Sqeezebox which seems sort of similar to the
Apple TV with more of a focus on music.
Does anyone here have experience with this device (or the more expensive
transporter?
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i own one - it's mentioned it in the OP and following detail post. so far i've only used it for listening to
rhapsody, and it works pretty well.
my new receiver (i'll probably discuss it sometime in a post) directly supports digital network audio as well, including
flac. perhaps at some point i'll get around to exploring it. i already have
a 1.2TB network storage device, but i only use it for archival and it's usually off. i have a ton of eac/lame 192KB vbr mp3s on there that i've ripped, but so far i haven't been bothered to care enough about rhapsody's compression. perhaps i will now that i've signifigantly upgraded my audio between the receiver and a new 5.1 speaker setup from
svs.