Integrated Media/Music Servers

This guide is shared to help people put any video on their portable devices.

Most devices only accept the following common video formats:
iPod/iPhone: H.264 (up to 320*240, 768kbps, 30fps), MPEG-4 (up to 480*480, 2500kbps, 30fps).
Zune: WMV, MPEG-4, H.264(30fps).
Creative Zen: AVI.
Sansa: MPEG-4, MP4.

I am getting started on digitising my large selection of Jazz L.P.s. I am thrifty and do not want to spend a whole lot on a dedicated music server, splendid thoug they may be . It occured to me that perhaps a Tivo would store Hi Rez audio and play it through my stereo  via the Tivo,s optical audio output  to a DAC. In addition, I could download album info. from the internet to the Tivo through its USB connection and see it on my TV which plays audio through my stereo. Am I dreaming?.

Music servers seem to be gaining mainstream audiophile traction over physical media - even for high resolution files. I've started reading articles and posts on the subject and I'm becomming very interested in the concept though I have no desire to become an early adopter. I currently have about 150 RBCD's in my library that I would like to preserve, but I'm mainly interested in high resolution content. I've been enthusiastic about SACD and have about 200 in my library.

Looks like Olive made quite a splash with their Olive4HD and Thiel SCS4D active speakers at CES 2010. Are there any plans to evaluate the Olive 4HD both as a stand-alone music server with 24/192 Burr-Brown PCM1792A DAC and 2TB of hard drive space? Looks like an interesting offering and a compelling value when compared to offerings from Sooloos and Qsonix etc...Thx

 I've moved my iTunes music files on an external drive and finally got Squeezebox Server to see these files. However, I can only play the music from the Squeezebox server interface, and not from the iTunes one. This means that my playlists are not there or that I cannot iTunes sorting and shuffling capabilities.
Is there a way to use iTunes as the controlling software to feed through Squeezebox Server? 

 
My Logitech Squeezebox Duet server software (Version 7.4.1) doesn't appear to capture all of my songs.  Windows Media Player Version 11 reports that I have 5604 songs on 754 albums on my sole music folder while the Squeezebox server says there are 5491 on 649 albums).  Any explanations?  I'm using Windows XP.

 The Embla offers a silent playback system without any moving mechanical parts when playing from the built-in flash memory. The Embla is not a redesigned computer system; it is built from the ground up as a high performance audio playback system. Unlike other computer based playback products the Embla is based on our proprietary audio DSP design, allowing us to completely control the timing and reading of the discs. The Embla is designed as a true audiophile unit from the ground up and not a modified computer that can copy discs.

There's a new 'version' out, the 2.0, which changed the architecture and supports hi-rez files (24/96).
The Control 10 unit has an Ethernet port through which it connects to the Twinstore. Is the use of the Twinstore mandatory or can one use any NAS instead? I am under the impression that one can add NAS to the Twinstore, but it's not clear whether the COntrol 10 can tie up directly to a NAS.

How do you play Hi-rez multichannel downloads (24-96/176/192k) on a 2-channel system?

I have been looking at all of the various options formusic servers over the past few months. I had a specific set of requirements, some of which were set in stone, while others were 'nice to have' Examples of the former were 1) the ability to output 24/192 or 24/176.6 WAV files, 2) AES/EBU outputs, 3) best possible sound card, and 4) full automatic backup. The desirables included touch screen control (as implemented by Sooloos or Qsonix), and comparatively easy implementation.