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Gordon, the new Apple Extreme and networked drives...

Gordon, Have you looked into the new (soon to be released) Airport Extreme with its networked hard drive capability? What I'm wondering is if you can have a hard drive with all of the music on it connected to the AE and use iTunes on a networked computer with one of your USB DACs for playback. And if you can have multiple of these setups around the house. This would allow you to store your hard drive away from the music system, and for it to be shared in more than one audio system.

Based on experience I'm not terribly confident in wireless connectivity for music listening (mainly, drop outs), but the idea of the wirelessly networked drive shared across more than one computer/audio system is clearly useful for media. I've studied some of the available NAS products, but most seemed too technical. No doubt Apple will make it consumer friendly.


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