Best OS for Audio - Page 2

I think you're right about all Macs having SPDIF. I remember doing a search to see if my iMac did and the information I found lead me to that conclusion. I don't know when they started it but the word on the street appeared to be at the very least if your Mac was an Intel Mac it had SPDIF.

Schiit actually mentions it on the page for their new DAC.

Wow, it didn't take many posts to see someone bashing osx as being for the tech illiterate, they were also the first one to drop the fanboy term too.  That's too classic.  

Anyways, I don't see any difference between osx and windows when both are running to an external dac.  On osx you have to use midi setup to change the sample rate of music through iTunes, but that's iTunes' problem.

I have had hands on time with all three of the OSs personally, for a casual user OSX would the best because the usual user are not tech literate nor would they attempt to make a 3D movie like Avatar, the user friendly-ness would certainly help. Linux would be for users who uses a lot of industrial grade power, such as hosting a giant website. Windows would be for the users who game and IT professionals who uses relatively lesser (but still expensive and fast) consumer hardware . 

I still say those are over-generalizations where you could easily find examples where the opposite is true.

In the end, it's all personal preference and what you're comfortable with. Which, dragging the topic back on track, is true of the audio playback with each platform. I don't thing any one is better than any of the others and which you use would best be decided about what you think of the OS as a whole instead of how it plays music.

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Originally Posted by DougofTheAbaci 

I still say those are over-generalizations where you could easily find examples where the opposite is true.

 

In the end, it's all personal preference and what you're comfortable with. Which, dragging the topic back on track, is true of the audio playback with each platform. I don't thing any one is better than any of the others and which you use would best be decided about what you think of the OS as a whole instead of how it plays music.

Very much so.

At the current evolution status, all three major options can be configured in order to sound as good as each other. So people just need to get what they feel more comfortable about/what they enjoy using the most, and configure it to suite their specific needs.

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Originally Posted by eugenius 

If you are tech literate you are better off with Linux than OSX.

When I talk about a custom linux music server, I'm speaking about a DIY streamer though, a poor man's version of the audionec sdv3, not about installing linux on a pc.

That is definitely true. Linux is not for the faint of tech-heart.

I wonder how hard it would be to build music playing functionality into the NAS I want to build... Must see if FreeNAS will do that or if I'm going to have to go with something like Ubuntu. Hmm. Airplay.

For those of you who use Clementine on Mac with an iPod, is there a way to sync with an iPod? I've tried the "Copy to device" option and it copied to my iPod, but after looking at my iPod, nothing changed.

I'm new to the Terminal language so I don't quite understand how to install libimobiledevice if it isn't already installed on my Mac.