Color me confused. I'm thinking about MC11, since it integrates politely with Cinemar's MainLobby & MusicLobby software, but am a little worried a bit about ALAC compatibility. Right now I've got over a thousand CDs in Apple Lossless format (ripped using EAC and converted to AL in iTunes) on a RAID 5 NAS. They are meticulously all tagged with Album, Artist, Track Data, Album Art, Date of Release, etc. Will all the tag data come through in MC11? Do I understand correctly that MC11 doesn't actually play these files, but rather passes them to QT? What is the downside of that?
I've searched past threads, and the standard response seems to be "convert to something." In my case, I can't do that, because Apple Lossless is understood by other devices in my house, such as my Squeezebox 3s, and I don't feel like doing any more retagging at all...
The ability to read the Apple Lossless data is sort of a make or break for me.