I also understand that Mac has a limitation with FLACs but that can be taken care of with Elmedia.

Just say 'Hey Google, find action movies' or 'Hey Google, show me sci-fi adventure TV shows' to search across your favorite. 8 Google TV brings your favorite content from across your apps and subscriptions and organizes them just for you. I have gone through the options of Standalone Servers like NAS boxes & Bluesound Vault 2, but most are an overkill in terms of price and value - this is just my opinion. See 700,000+ movies and TV episodes, plus live TV, all in one place. I am sure my budget Mini & NUC do not reproduce great sound due to the hardware limitations, but I do not even know if this will add much. Question: Do I really have to? I have heard it and it certainly sounds pretty neat and seems to add to the overall sound. IDEA: I am planning to attach the Schiit Modi MultiBit, to this setup - this I need to buy. Do we have any similar options if I want to use windows? Basically, I can't have additional peripherals except an iPAD pro & an Android phone & I have no internet. Question : I have done this before with Mac Mini and Duet Display app - you can bypass the log-in requirement on the Mac and using the Duet App as start-up app, you can hard wire your iPAD to work as the monitor & the Keyboard/mouse straight on the boot - and you do not require any display or peripherals. So I would like to be able to boot the PC/Mac display to an iPAD/ Android Phone. IDEA: In this case this is more of a need, I have no place to put a monitor, a keyboard & a mouse and I have no internet at home, where I stay. Question: What do you think is better - NUC or Mac Mini? I have both. IDEA : I would like to hook up an NUC based PC or a MAC Mini with an option to connect a 1TB SSD via USB 3 (I have all of these). I would however like to have my entire library (instead of 128 GB odd on Sony) to be accessible at all times with the stereo setup. Now, I shuffle through my entire music library almost daily and use a Sony Walkman NWZ A45 for playing music through the stereo setup. I live in India, and though currently I have a full media 5.1 setup in my media room, I have a stereo set of Tannoy Mercury m5s and a Sansui AU217 MKII in my bedroom. though I have a huge collection of physical stuff (the CDs that survived), my vagabond lifestyle (work related mostly a year here a coupe there), doesn't allow me to keep physical works. I have a collection of just under 1TB of music that I have collected from CDs (some Ripped in MP3s, some in FLACs) that came my way over years from my family - when they moved to the iPods. This is my first post here and I would like to get your ideas on this.

Will the heos app work on sony walkman