erland;654976 Wrote: 
> Just out of interest, how does your friend typically bring you music ?
> Are we talking about a music file on a USB stick, on a iPhone, on a
> Android or other mobile phone, as a URL to a internet stream or
> something else ? What's the most common way ?
> 
> I'm just asking because for myself the most common scenario is that my
> friend just mention it and doesn't actually have access to the music
> file at the time, so I just pickup the iPad and search for it on
> Spotify or YouTube and play it on my Squeezebox.

As far as I am concerned, don't know if you can extrapolate, I would
say

- external usb device (usb stick or external disk)
- memory cards
- url to internet service (usually poor sound quality)
- device like Smartphones or an Ipods

As far as Touch is concerned, I am mostly thinking about USB stick or
memory card, either directly plug to the Touch, or through the
computer.

The most stupid thing in this story is the following :

- I have a computer with internal SSD and Windows 7 x64
- I boot it faster than a Touch
- Almost every information used for basic and daily search are present
in the file names of my flac files
- The search field of Windows 7 file explorer (with SSD, indexing
disable) allow me to find almost instantly whatever I want without
using tags ...

This means that for me a simple software with an "Open file" button to
select music files ans send it to the Touch, would be better, faster
and more user friendly than SBS database browsing ...

When you have a computer available, the number one basic method to
choose a file on it, is to browse your folders ...

Allow SBS or TinySBS to disable any scan whatsoever, and provide simple
folder browsing, you get something simple 99% of people will use without
any hassle ...

When a friend brings you a file, why should it be more complicated than
bringing a CD ?
(I forgot that, a friend can bring a CD, you rip it, and use the files,
it still happens sometimes)

Now tell him than with TinySBS, you will have to rescan (how many hours
?) your disk if you disconnect ot to play your friend usb stick, or tell
him you have to copy his file in the specific music folder for SBS, and
wait for the scan ...
Any sensible person will ask you if you are not insane ...


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