Useful NAS setup guide

Hello James,

thanks for this. I have seen another very helpful comment of yours in January 2012 (topic: NAS with UPnP with Superuniti). It sounds as if the openness of a mac mini-based system is hard to beat!

You mentioned that you also rip for iPods: can you remind me if one to rip to hi-res (e.g., AIFF) and lower-res (e.g. AAC) at the same time, please? I have seen 'create AAC version' in iTunes, but this puts the new file into the same folder )-; Rather, I think I have read somewhere (!) that it is possible to set up one iTunes library for all hi-res files, and another iTunes for low-res (AAC)? Was this with XLD, or iTunes...?

I hope you can help,

Best,

Stefan 

Hi Stefan

Perhaps not a full answer to your question, but...

If you rip to loseless in iTunes, you can choose the resolution of the files you sync to your other i-devices when you do the sync/transfer.  You can choose different resolutions for each device.

My loseless library is way too big for my 64GB iPod Touch so I choose to transfer then at 256k.  It's just for use in the car so the quality is just fine.

Gavin

Hi Stefan. I do the same as Gavin for my car iPod - a useful way of loading up the iPod wihout needing to keep another folder of lower res music in my main library. The only thing i dont like is that its limited to 256k.

I usually just have a selection of full fat AIFF for my work IPod.

James