Experience with Mach2 Music Server?

01-08-11: Paulfolbrecht
Yes, Tvad, referring to the Mini on the noise. I use the internal HD which I guess might be quieter than some external ones. But as you pointed you you sitting only 3' from it makes quite a difference.

The Mach2 server uses a solid state drive. No spinning disc. There is no noise from the Mini unless the DVD drive is being used to rip a CD.

The external drive would probably not be audible from 10' away during music playback.

Tvad - go to Network Preferences and hit advanced and see whether the box "remember networks this computer has joined" is checked. If it isn't checked, check it and see whether that fixes your problem. To answer your question, my network is password protected and yet I don't have your issue. I hope this fixes it for you.

As for the iTunes playback issue, I imagine there are a couple of settings you need to fiddle with on iTunes, and I'd guess that a kid at Apple tech support should be able to help you fix that pretty easily.

I can relay my experiences at RMAF in 2010. I was using for 2 days a Mac Mini 2009 version with Amarra 1.2 (not 2.1). I prefer 1.2.

The Mach2 music guys offered to swap-out my Mini for the Mach2 Mini, so we tried this on Saturday night. The difference between the two was significant and not subtle. And this was using an async 192 USB interface. As a result, I left the Mach2 in the system for Sunday show. Sounded more detailed and more live. Now I want to replace my Mini with one of these.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

01-08-11: Cfluxa
Tvad - go to Network Preferences and hit advanced and see whether the box "remember networks this computer has joined" is checked.

I think there was some mis-communication an an earlier post.

The re-entry of a password is needed to reconnect Screen Sharing, or to initiate VNC.

The re-entry of a password to connect to the network is not required...for the reason you mentioned.

Tvad - you shouldn't need to re-enter a password to reconnect to screen sharing, either. Have you checked the status of your Mini's preferences under "sharing"? Again, one would theoretically hope Apple tech support could help with this.