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My 'user experience' is the music stored local on an Airport Disk and a selection of it in my iPhone and iPad. I use an Airport Express and a iPhone/ iPod Dock both attached to my home stereo (Braun Atelier A1).

I think it's a comfortable (and inexpensive) start to enjoy my music library.
The two ways to get the music to the amplifier both have their pros:
1. Put an iPhone/ iPod into the dock and listen to the music continously and charge your device.
2. Use AirPlay from any Mac Computer or iOS device to quickly skip to another song or album. Without cables! From anywhere in your house.

If you are going for better "high fidelity" sound it makes sense to rip your CDs in Apple Losless, throw away the Dock and use the optical output of the Airport Express to serve your amplifier.

If you have an analog amplifier (like me) an extra Digital/ Analog Box will make a difference compared to the bad one built into the Airport Express.

Streaming music from the internet gave me too many bad encoded/ compressed music, so I wouldn't go this way.

> A bit off topic, but not completely. I'm considering building an Apple-based
> system to serve music to my home stereo. There are lots of suggestions, but
> few user experiences. Any recommendations? I'm open to buying the components
> needed to make this happen, but have a limitation in that my Internet
> service is ATT&T U-Verse.
>
> Thanks for any comments or recommendations,
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> Art Russell
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> "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you
> end up being governed by your inferiors."
> Plato
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A bit off topic, but not completely. I'm considering building an Apple-based
system to serve music to my home stereo. There are lots of suggestions, but
few user experiences. Any recommendations? I'm open to buying the components
needed to make this happen, but have a limitation in that my Internet
service is ATT&T U-Verse.

Thanks for any comments or recommendations,

--

Art Russell

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you
end up being governed by your inferiors."
­Plato

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Okay thanks I get full of the bottom cover once, but had a friend help me. The screws are really small, so it's a maybe as for doing it myself.

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Glenn Gutierrez <yah@glenngutierrez.com> wrote:

According to iFixit.com, this is an "easy" upgrade. The guide is only 3 pages.

http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Unibody-Late-2008-and-Early-2009-Hard-Drive-Replacement/841/1

That's nothing compared to the time I swapped out a bad drive for a friend's iBook, which spanned 14 pages of guide.

I'd prefer to do it myself, which would require an external SATA enclosure for the current drive. SATA-USB2 cases are very inexpensive. On the other hand, I have experience doing this. If you aren't comfortable with the process, skip it. (This one looks perfect for beginners, however. No cables involved.) Note that you'll need a Torx T6 screwdriver.. I don't even have one of those. I guess T8 and T9 are old school now.

Would a vendor do the transfer for you? You'd need to ask the vendor.

G

On 18 Feb 2012, at 12:25 PM, Louie P. (Pete) Nalda wrote:

> If so, will the vender, say the Apple Store, have a way to transfer my stuff? Or would I have to purchase an external drive or something first? I'd hope not. Problem is I'm down to 12gb on this 160gb drive. I'm going to see what I can delete besides media in iTunes, but I think that's the biggest reason for my drive being full so I'm not hopeful. Thanks in advance.
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> Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, Mates)
> Louie P. "Pete" Nalda

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