[simon wagstaff]

so I am kind of a total dunce when it comes to itunes and have never figured it out. I have a huge (2TB) library of music mainly in flac format (some shn that I will need to convert) and have been using Toast for play back. I have a mac mini hooked up via it's optical out to my home theater receiver. I just drop the tracks into Toast and play them. I don't need any library management stuff. For most of my hi rez audio, 24/96, I burn it onto DVDs for playback and have a different drive that I archive that stuff on. the only time things get squirrely is for playback of the 24/44.1 beatles tracks. I am not sure if toast is truncating them down to 16 bit, though they do sound great.

Any other suggestions for simple playback software or is Toast it?

thanks!

[Larkston Zinaspic]

This what I like to use:

http://sbooth.org/Play/

Take a look and see what you think.

[skunark]

You can also try:

http://cogx.org/

I've had better luck with high-rez music with cog over play, since both are opensource projects I give them both a +1

You can play flac in itunes.. I prefer AIFF/ALAC since most portable devices can deal with it over FLAC.
http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/06/12/how-to-play-flac-files-in-itunes/

Also http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/ is a great resource for setting up Macs and PCs for the best possible playback.