[proglife]

I'm starting to play around with the idea of selling off my Rotel 991AE and ripping all of my discs to Apple Lossless.

What I have

• PowerMac G4 450 w/ less than 80 gigs of internal hard drive space

...that's about it

What I (think I) need

• A couple of 500GB Firewire Drives
• Airport Express
• digital cable (Monster APX Toslink kit? any others?)
• D/A Converter (inexpensive...suggestions?)

Eventually, I'll replace the G4 with a Mac Mini and the inexpensive DAC with a USB DAC (like the Wavelength). This is the plan, at least.

I am, however, seeing a problem with using 2 external drives. Is there any way to make iTunes store your library across two discs? Is this possible? Messing around with the settings, I don't see how that will be possible...and I'd rather not drop 1300 bucks on a terrabyte drive.

Any thoughts, comments, suggestions or solutions are greatly appreciated

 

[proglife]

For what it's worth, my setup is

Rotel RCD-991AE > LAT IC's > NAD C320 BEE > AudioQuest Type 4+ > Polk LSi15....very nearfield.

I'd like to replace the NAD amp with a Unison Unico, get some new speaker cables and then speaker shop for a high quality monitor or a smaller floorstander.

 

[proglife]

A friend who has his iTunes library spread across three discs just informed me that you just do it manually instead of having iTunes copy to a default folder.

Anyways, any other comments/suggestions would still be appreciated

 

[archosman]

Should be easy under iTunes preferences. You can do it this way.

1) Figure out what songs you want on a particular disc
2) Under the Advanced preference make a iTune folder to save those files
3) Repeat the same for the other disc.

It's easy.

 

[Elephas]

I'm using four 250GB drives configured in RAID5 for 698GB useable space. If you have the inclination and the funds, a RAID server would be a good solution.

 

[dougwx12]

Turn off the "let itunes manage my music" option, and it'll work just fine.

 

[irvin59]

Quote:

Originally Posted by proglife • digital cable (Monster APX Toslink kit? any others?) • D/A Converter (inexpensive...suggestions?)

The Headroom microdac is really nice and it takes usb input so you don't need a digital connect to the Mac. A Terrabyte sounds like a lot of music storage capacity even using lossless-you must have quite a collection.