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Got the Touch, Now What?

I just purchased a Squeezebox Touch. This is my first attempt at anything other than cd. I want to get this running properly wthout too many mistakes. I know there's probably no one perfect way to do this, but clearly some ways are better than others.

I have J River and Itunes on my desktop. I thought I'd rip all my cd's to J River (apparently this plays 24/96 files and itunes doesn't?)and then stream wirelessly from my desktop to the squeezbox, through my dac and out through my stereo.
I have a Cambridge Audio 840c and I thought I would utilize the DAC from it. Does it sound like I'm headed in the right direction?

I currently have itunes and a few hundred discs loaded using apple lossless, however I've read that ideally I create FLAC files for use with the touch instead? I'd like to have the files be some type of lossless to preserve the sound. I'm not concerned about file size because hard drives are cheap these days. I've got about a thousand cd's to work with so I really want to get this mostly right the first time.

I'm guessing at most of this so I would really appreciate any suggestions. Sorry if my explanation above sounds convoluted please bare with me.
Thanks,
Mike
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tpy
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Just got a Squeezebox Touch, and am liking it alot. It took awhile to get it to play 24 bit files through Itunes, but I finally got it to work by converting with XLD and then converting those files to AIFF in I tunes. Couldn't get max to work.

1. Is this a reasonable way to convert hi rez files to play through Itunes?

Problem is that I'm getting drop out of sound when streaming Hi Rez files through my wireless router. This happens primarily with files from HDtracks; so far not an issue with live concert FLAC24 downloads.

2. Any idea what the problem is with the drop-out on Hi Rez files? I also noticed this on 320kbs internet radio. Could it be a problem with my router? Would this happen if lots of stuff is running on my computer?

Thanks for any and all advice ....
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tpy
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Joe -- Thanks for your great suggestions. I've been using my Touch for about 2 months and am loving it. I have a few questions:

1. Can you be a bit more specific about how to change it send a PCM instead of FLAC stream. I'm using an iMac with iTunes so, since my understanding is these don't do FLAC, maybe it already is doing that? I've been converting my FLACs to WAV with XLD.

2. I've read that sound will be greatly improved by using Pure Music. And it clearly improves things when I play files on the computer itself, but I don't think it is going to the Touch. I've also heard that the Touch won't play music via Pure Music. Any thoughts or suggestions?

3.Is the DbPowerAmp download you mention a substitute for iTunes or Pure Music? Or does it work with these?

Thanks again for the great post. It seems lots of people are getting into the Touch and most could some guidance as to how to get the best out of it.
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