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OK, I'll try the direct link. Thanks.

While I have your attention.... (I have a never ending supply of stupid questions)

All my music files are FLAC that I ripped with EAC. I also got an iPod but would rather use MP3 for that. How would you recomend I do this? I have not pointed I-tunes toward the folder on the server where the FLAC files are yet.

As I understand it, you'll need to convert the flac files to mp3 for use with the iPod. I don't have an answer handy on how to do that, but I've done it (once.)

Google i-Tunes and Flac, I beleive their is a plug in available, not sure how well it works.

Download Mediamonkey. I believe it has the ability to do that on the fly, but that may be in the pay version. It will certainly allow you to make MP3s of all your flac files.

I have a similar setup to you, except that my server runs Linux. I've never installed Squeezecenter on a Windows machine, but I guess that it will ask you for the path to the music files somewhere. As the music is in the same box as Squeezecenter, you just need to specify the path in the usual way, eg

c:\stuff\music

The http://<your_server_name>:9000 is what you use to point a web browser on any computer in your house to Squeezecenter.

As for converting to mp3, there are many ways to do this. I use another piece of free software called foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/

Foobar2000 utilises a free utility called LAME to convert the FLACs to mp3. - http://lame.sourceforge.net/

If I convert to MP3, what would be the best method for file use? I mean, if the Squeezcenter is using the FLAC files on the server, would I just create another folder for the MP3's on my office PC? I'm just concerned that this might create some sort of conflict. I know that squeezecenter uses Itunes playlists and interacts with iTunes.

Am I just overthinking this??

You mean we could have met up at MacWorld? Damn.

Bummer, didn't know you were there. Would've been funny that you had to travel all the way back here after you actually started here, just for a meet up.

I would say next year but I don't think it'd be worth it anymore. I probably spent 30 min on the floor, I'd seen enough of iphone apps... I walked it w/ a friend from Apple. Then we took him to Thirsty Bear and proceeded to drink beer for the next 6 hours. If we do it again next year, ping me. You can get drunk w/ some Apple folks.

I love Thirsty Bear! I was there Monday with my brother (adamp88) and former boss.

I'm just using my straight PC for everything, no dedicated media server so I'm not much help there. I also don't use iTunes anymore.

Just thought that I would let you know that when I used to have ITunes, I initially had an issue where Squeezecenter would have every song listed twice because it adds in the iTunes library by default. Therefore I was seeing both the flac and the mp3 version of all the songs.

Very easy fic though. There is a setting to ignore the itunes library altogether, which is best if they are duplicate libraries.