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Foregoing a pre-assembled system from Dell or similar I think you can get something more appropriate to a stereo rack for about the same price from other vendors. I just priced a system out from http://www.mini-box.com/. It's based around the Intel D945GCLF2 mini-ITX motherboard. Specc'd with 2GB RAM, a 1.6GH Atom Dual Core CPU, DC power brick (gets rid of the PSU fan). Includes 1PCI slot, case includes a riser card, so full height should work. Price looks like $227.90 sans shipping.<br />

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The only thing missing is an HD which can be picked up for a song, or recycled from an old system.<br />

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There are numerous other embedded options out there. I put that together with about 5 minutes of research. Would love to hear about some options which would look/fit even more efficiently into a stereo rack.

 

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Yeah, definitely not for the point and click crowd, but for guys willing to get their hands a bit dirty it's not really that much more complicated. Not sure if the riser card would work in the smaller Dell's - sometimes they get so proprietary that that sort of stuff won't work.<br />

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I found some ITX cases which are much more deserving to sit in the stereo rack as well:<br />

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1328&ID=1433<br />

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1328&ID=1434<br />

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I think I may have a Christmas project on my hands when I head back to the states...

 

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WAV totally supports tags. In fact there are more PC applications supporting WAV id3 tags than there are AIFF (iTunes being the only one). <br />

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Both WAV and AIFF have been extended by a number of developers including Apple (itunes AIFF), Microsoft (WMP11 ripped wav), Mediamonkey (WAV files), Dbpoweramp (both AIFF & WAV)<br />

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Here is a link describing the WAV format:<br />

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/422/projects/WaveFormat/<br />

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The relevant text is under the notes header:<br />

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"There may be additional subchunks in a Wave data stream. If so, each will have a char[4] SubChunkID, and unsigned long SubChunkSize, and SubChunkSize amount of data."<br />

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Essentially what's been done in all these implementations is a new RIFF subchunk has been added with the header ID3, along with an additional padding character to meet the char[4] spec. The subchunk then conforms to the ID3V2 specification. The equivalent documentation for AIFF is lacking, but it is believed to be roughly identical to WAV.<br />

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Some useful threads on the subject:<br />

http://www.anytag.de/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t8328.html<br />

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131130<br />

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t43021.html<br />

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?p=81230&highlight=wave+list+id3v2#post81230 <br />

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Some may argue that this isn't a 'standard', but the tagged files work across multiple applications, so it's close enough to a 'standard' for me.

 

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Well, I'd just been opening some bugs on some open source projects to support wav and aiff tags, so it was really just a matter of copying and pasting info I'd already put together. Hopefully we can get even more widespread support.<br />

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I thought AIFF supported album art? I just moved and renamed an HDTracks AIFF file, and the album art seemed to move along with it...

 

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Turns out OS X (the operating system) actually support tagged WAV as well as AIFF. Right click on either a tagged WAV or AIFF and select 'Get Info', and you'll see the album details in the 'More info' section of the file properties. <br />

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Strange that OS X can see the WAV tags and iTunes can't.... Should be a simple fix for Apple to fully support wav on itunes then.

 

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I beg to differ:<br />

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http://rapidshare.com/files/202448133/Sample.wav<br />

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Load that into Mediamonkey, Dbpoweramp, Tag&Rename, or right click and use 'Get Info' in OS X, and you'll see tags. That file is tagged with both LIST and ID3v2, so in some cases some programs may be using the info under the LIST subchunk, but the tags definitely move with the file.

 

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Sadly, there is no way to grab SACD in the digital domain. The format had to small a following, so it's never been hacked. That's the big advantage DVD Audio has, the hacking came for free with DVD hacking.<br />

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You can grab the redbook section of the SACD, but I doubt that's what you want, and anyway not all of them have redbook sections. <br />

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What some have done is taken a high end sound card and a recording application - you pipe your SACD player's analog out into the Analog to Digital converter of the soundcard and convert it to 24/96 or 24/192, whatever you like. With the Lynx card being one of the most respected pro audio cards out there your in good shape on that front. Since your player broke though you'd need to beg borrow or steal another player to do it.

 

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