[rusnak]

I have a really really dumb question. Anyone feel free to just ignore it if it is offensive somehow.

But I read in the other thread people just casually say "oh stream your music", or "Pandora" or some sort of USB.

My question is how do you get songs that you WANT to LISTEN to? To me, that's the main reason for buidling the system. In other words, if I wanted to listen to music that was put together by someone else, I'd just switch on an FM radio. I tried Pandora, but the channels that I liked had fewer songs than my own playlist from both Amazon and iTunes (iTunes sucks donkey balls). And I have USB inputs, but frankly the process of editing, arranging and burning to USB sort of seems laborious. It would have to be easy enough for an idiot to do it, at least once per month for me to be able to pull that off.... When there is an easier way, I choose the easy way.

Edit: I also tried playing straight to USB from the iPod. It worked, but cleaning up the signal with the mixer and amp sounds WAYYYYY better.