i sit at on my sofa with my laptop, so when i want my itunes/spotify through my hifi set-up i have to place the laptop next to my dac-magic and send a hdmi to tv and thgen use a wireless mouse/keyboard.
for some reason when i turn windows media sharing on my computer uses all 100% of its cpu and p memory so i leave that off. ( i think its a bug in the windows 7 that go installed on my laptop).
so apart from buying a new laptop and leaving this on next to the hifi i cant see a decent idea.And that would cost £300-£500 and ive only just paid £429.99 on my laptop 8 months ago.
so what i am really after is something that can sit next to my hifi send a digital signal to my dac-magic and send spotify and itunes( which i hope i can transfer off my laptop) if not re-rip. It must work with no internet on so i can play the spotify offline and itunes when my mrs is on the internet/xbox/ps3 spotify seems to slow it down a touch.
it would need a display so i could control it there and not need to use a tv for osd or the laptop as that my be left at work.
for some reason when i turn windows media sharing on my computer uses all 100% of its cpu and p memory so i leave that off. ( i think its a bug in the windows 7 that go installed on my laptop).
so apart from buying a new laptop and leaving this on next to the hifi i cant see a decent idea.And that would cost £300-£500 and ive only just paid £429.99 on my laptop 8 months ago.
so what i am really after is something that can sit next to my hifi send a digital signal to my dac-magic and send spotify and itunes( which i hope i can transfer off my laptop) if not re-rip. It must work with no internet on so i can play the spotify offline and itunes when my mrs is on the internet/xbox/ps3 spotify seems to slow it down a touch.
it would need a display so i could control it there and not need to use a tv for osd or the laptop as that my be left at work.