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Moving from PC to Mac

Hi - I have had my computer music on a PC for a few years and I use Media Monkey FLAC files. I have lots of "albums" I have purchased from HD Tracks. I am now going to use a Mac Mini as my server and I am wondering what I need to do to move the music to the Mac? I am assuming I will need a new software like Amarra but not sure if the transition will work okay. Can anyone help?

Thanks, jb
jb2455
doggiehowser
672 posts
 
I use XLD also because it has an EAC-type ripper for CD ripping.
jeenam
131 posts
 
Why convert the files? Use Cog for playing back your flac files on a Mac.
doggiehowser
672 posts
 
I use iTunes to manage my music library that I use for music server functions as well as syncing with my iOS devices

So conversion is needed.

If I am not running headless (ie when using a notebook with keyboard/mouse rather than a Mac Mini), I tend to use Audirvana in Playlist mode which can play DSD, ISO and FLAC files directly without conversion.

I dunno about COG but A+ sounds superb
audioengr
3,282 posts
 
Some recommendations:

http://www.empiricalaudio.com/computer-audio/recommended-systems

Steve N.
Empirical Audio
mitch2
4,206 posts
 
I just went through this and found that Pure Music sounded best to me in my system. I think the player may be somewhat dependent on the DAC used since with my NOS HEX DAC I am not able to use Audirvana in integer mode so I may not be hearing that player at its best. Thanks to a tip from Srajan of 6moons, I am upsampling at the player to 176.4kHz using Pure Music set to NOS.
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