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In Reply to: Music Player posted by audioasylumman on January 5, 2024 at 06:25:20:
Unfortunately it appears that you prefer being constrained and fenced in by a commercial 'turnkey' system limited to what the manufacturer hands you.A $500 Mac Mini, similar compact PC, or the tiny $50 Inovato PC that inmate misstl posted will do the job but none of these are pre-made turnkey appliances.
I'd be curious to see what others might recommend to meet your every need:
- USB input on the back for your SSD based FLAC files
- USB output for your DAC
- HDMI out to your computer monitor
- A decent system for browsing the files on the SSD*
- Not interested in servers, ethernet, raspberry pi.- Can it have WiFi capability?
- Can it be portable / handheld?
- Or must it be 'shelf-sized' to reside in your audio rack?* This bit is too vague and requires more information. How will you interact with this browsing system? A keyboard + mouse (like every PC has)? A phone / tablet? Will this commercially made device need it's own touch screen? How large? AND it needs to drive your HDMI monitor too (like a PC does)? Hmm, sounds like a PC/Mac to me, maybe a touchscreen PC.
I'm thinking possibly the Bluesound Node for $450 - $500 but I don't think it meets your every need.
What's your budget? I'm sure there are multi-thousand dollar audiophile setups that will meet your needs (but they're basically PCs inside fancy casework).
Edits: 01/05/24 01/05/24 01/05/24
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- Small PC/Mac would be perfect but... - AbeCollins 09:23:28 01/05/24 (22)
- I've been using a mini PC with Foobar2000 for years - Feanor 03:53:57 01/06/24 (15)
- "A small laptop would work as well as the mini-PC" - AbeCollins 09:07:51 01/06/24 (14)
- Laptops adequate to run music players are really cheap these days - Feanor 11:35:37 01/06/24 (13)
- Agree but I'm keeping it in the context of what the OP wants - AbeCollins 13:04:21 01/06/24 (12)
- Agree that a mini PC with screen & keyboard is more locked down - Feanor 04:20:20 01/07/24 (0)
- RE: Agree but I'm keeping it in the context of what the OP wants - audioasylumman 19:26:08 01/06/24 (10)
- Curious - tlea 11:30:30 01/07/24 (5)
- Reading + listening is a slightly different experience - Feanor 04:24:27 01/08/24 (4)
- Curiouser and curiouser - tlea 14:28:37 01/08/24 (2)
- Yep, my thoughts often wander and sometimes ... - Feanor 04:24:30 01/10/24 (0)
- yes it's an interesting discussion of sorts - Story 06:30:05 01/09/24 (0)
- it's more than slightly different - Story 05:17:55 01/08/24 (0)
- I used to browse while listening myself - Feanor 04:25:08 01/07/24 (3)
- RE: I used to browse while listening myself - AbeCollins 07:45:56 01/07/24 (2)
- Roon Core sounds interesting ... - Feanor 12:24:38 01/07/24 (1)
- Costs nothing to try it out. 30 Day Trial... I've tried it a couple times ......nt - Cut-Throat 13:54:13 01/07/24 (0)
- RE: Small PC/Mac would be perfect but... - audioasylumman 11:56:26 01/05/24 (5)
- RE: Small PC/Mac would be perfect but... - AbeCollins 12:08:55 01/05/24 (4)
- RE: Small PC/Mac would be perfect but... - audioasylumman 13:50:45 01/05/24 (1)
- RE: Small PC/Mac would be perfect but... - Dawnrazor 14:16:08 01/05/24 (0)
- RE: Small PC/Mac would be perfect but... - MaggiesAndCats 13:34:25 01/05/24 (1)
- RE: Small PC/Mac would be perfect but... - JTodd 18:56:34 01/05/24 (0)
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