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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    stick with the big black pizzas til someone comes and sets something up for you is my advice Al
    Really
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edwardlon View Post
    Highly recommend you don't use itunes and amazon music
    You got there before me
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    stick with the big black pizzas til someone comes and sets something up for you is my advice Al
    I agree with this advice
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    Quote Originally Posted by Audio Al View Post
    Highly recommend you don't use itunes and amazon music - DOH ! , Amazon cost £79 per year and Itunes is £10 a month , Dont want to be spending even more money every month best to start with local files in flac or wav format Did I mention being a numpty with computer files and use a quality software player (e.g. JRiver, Roon etc - lots of choices) Is this something else I need to buy ? and make sure the player is playing directly to the DAC (rather than via the operating system mixture) so your DAC gets bit perfect data to decode.

    What type of computer are you using? PC, Mac or Linux? I have a iMac

    FWIW my audio path is: FLAC (either local or via Tidal) > Win10 server > Roon player> Win10 fanless endpoint > USB > Metrum Hex DAC > Preamp etc. Is this ancent hieroglyphs
    Goes over my head
    This is a fantastic and totally on-point post, describes my relationship with digital perfectly.

    HELP !!??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Audio Al View Post
    Hi Edward

    Alread done that via optical cable , far from impressed with the sound quality
    Ok I'll try one more time in a different way.

    1. Find someone who can give you some FLAC files. Then copy them to a folder on your mac.
    2. Download VLC and install it in your Mac (it is free, gratis, nothing to pay etc. I guess you know how to install something on your mac).
    3. Connect up your DAC to your mac.
    4. Start up VLC, point it to the folder (as in 1 above).
    5. Press play.


    If you are really brave and have some CDs just rip the CDs to FLAC using VLC (see above - free, gratis, nothing to pay).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stratmangler View Post
    I agree with this advice
    Really ? That is so sad.

    This digital stuff is clearly a breeze then .............. not !
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edwardlon View Post
    Ok I'll try one more time in a different way.

    1. Find someone who can give you some FLAC files. Then copy them to a folder on your mac.
    2. Download VLC and install it in your Mac (it is free, gratis, nothing to pay etc. I guess you know how to install something on your mac).
    3. Connect up your DAC to your mac.
    4. Start up VLC, point it to the folder (as in 1 above).
    5. Press play.


    If you are really brave and have some CDs just rip the CDs to FLAC using VLC (see above - free, gratis, nothing to pay).
    OK thanks will try , The free VLC when its downloaded does it import loads of sh-ite as well or just the program ?

    Some reserch needed re flack files for me to do
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    Quote Originally Posted by Idlewithnodrive View Post
    Really ? That is so sad.

    This digital stuff is clearly a breeze then .............. not !
    This digital stuff is a breeze, but it does require aptitude.
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    It is FLAC not FLACK.

    Don't get hung up researching - just grab some flac files and copy them to a folder on your mac.

    If all your friends only have macs and have no idea what a flac file is ask them if they have any alac files which is Apple's version of flac. But forget aac files which itunes uses.
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    Mac to DAC via Toslink or USB is the simplest way. I just don't understand all the Room/RPI/etc stuff and nothing I've read suggests it's easy to just plug in and play.

    I had good results from the M2TECH DAC from the laptop. Just do your research because it wouldn't work with Windows 10.

    It's a minefield mate.

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