Internal Playback
PLAY FROM THE MUSIC LIBRARY:
Historically, the primary purpose of each of the playback applications available for you to use on an Antipodes music server, is to play music in
the Antipodes music library
You can assemble a single seamless library, incorporating les you have ripped, copied or downloaded to the Antipodes, les on external
devices on your network like desktops, laptops or a NAS, and les located on an attached USB disk.
Note that with Antipodes music servers the best sound quality is achieved:
playing les stored on an internal SSD, followed by
les stored on your network (softer, less immediate, less image specicity), followed by
les stored on an internal spinning disk (HDD) (introduces some harshness, grain and reduced dynamics and tonal colour – this is
NOT ameliorated by staging music through a small SSD buffer as is sometimes claimed), followed by
les stored on a USB drive (more harshness and grain).
With more noisy servers than the Antipodes, this hierarchy may be different.
See the next section concerning internet streaming services, which are growing in popularity.
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