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Is there a device that can play/stream music (any format) residing in a hard disk without using laptop/computer?Wouldn't it be nice if say, one downloads and stores songs in an external hard disk via a computer but wants to play them without the computer (probably feed a DAC)? Is a processor based motherboard necessary for this purpose? Can SB3 do that?-ramesh
Rich, just my opinion, and I know I'm far away in the minority, but I think Ipod's suck for anything but purely portable use (ie, modern day Walkman albeit with far superior sound). It does not support FLAC and it's a closed system sold by one vendor (no open platform) much like their ITunes system tries to be. Not the kind of system I care to support with my dollars. Btw, none of Apple's products are DLNA certified, so they will not *easily* interoperate with other vendors consumer products. Of course I'm sure Apple will be glad to sell you a myriad of add-ons to enable you to inter-connect their proprietary devices.
(ie, modern day Walkman albeit with far superior sound).
Rich, just my opinion, and I know I'm far away in the minority, but I think Ipod's suck...
Thanks Dan. Checked the Olive site and see that they have the CD burning and storage features also. Someone should probably think of combining file(music) reading capability from a disk and a dac in one device??
Dan, what in your opinion are the better stand-alone DAC's for the money? Which ones have you used?