Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How To Connect Hard Drive To Squeezebox Touch?

2016-06-07 Thread chopinhauer
Ok, thanks for all the replies. I think I've got it, though for newbies it is not always as simple as just going to the various sites and reading the stuff. Setting things up "headless" etc means very little to the uninitiated. Anyway, when time permits I'll give it a go.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How To Connect Hard Drive To Squeezebox Touch?

2016-06-07 Thread chopinhauer
Man in a van wrote: > If going pi, I would recommend this as the most "geradeaus"route > > https://www.max2play.com/en/getting-started/ > > > > Ronnie castalla wrote: > Another approach is to use > https://sites.google.com/site/picoreplayer/home > > The entire setup is done via your web

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How To Connect Hard Drive To Squeezebox Touch?

2016-06-06 Thread chopinhauer
Grumpy Bob wrote: > The WD hard drive is a stand alone unit running a Linux distro and LMS. > You connect the player wirelessly to it. Check out 'the thread that > describes it.' >

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How To Connect Hard Drive To Squeezebox Touch?

2016-06-06 Thread chopinhauer
Grumpy Bob wrote: > The 2Tb WD setup has two internal wifi cards - one sets up a WAN of its > own (192.168.60.*), the other connects to your own network. It runs > Logitech Media Server, and you connect the players to it directly > through the 192.168.60.* network. (sorry, not familiar with the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How To Connect Hard Drive To Squeezebox Touch?

2016-06-05 Thread chopinhauer
Mnyb wrote: > "Yes" but the experience is not what you are used to , it has > limitations like no web-UI no plugins and more . Touch is really > underpowered to run the server properly. > > So I recommend you connect the external HD to the iMac and have proper > LMS experience . Thanks for the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How To Connect Hard Drive To Squeezebox Touch?

2016-06-05 Thread chopinhauer
Going back to the original question, I too would like to plug an external HD with over 1TB of music into the usb port of the Touch. My situation is that I am moving from running all my music from a a large HDD on my PC running LMS to what? That's the question. The PC is going and all that