Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-03-23 Thread Apesbrain
Dhammavijaya wrote: > I rip the new Tears for Fears CD on my MAC , physically connect the > external SSD to it, and transfer the ripped files to it. A lot more convenient to use Samba; rip on Mac then copy files to RPi SSD over your network. See Steps 3 & 4:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-03-23 Thread Dhammavijaya
Redrum wrote: > Listened to that TFF yesterday, first listen sounds quite good! > > Assuming you do a "look for new" and not a "wipe and rescan", and are > looking in LMS, are you looking for the first entry in album artist-> > new music? or album artist->tears for fears? What could happen is

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-03-03 Thread Redrum
Dhammavijaya wrote: > Since setting up this system things are basically fine, but I’m having a > frustrating problem. > > I rip the new Tears for Fears CD on my MAC , physically connect the > external SSD to it, and transfer the ripped files to it. > > Then I reconnect the SSD to the Pi, go

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-03-03 Thread slartibartfast
Dhammavijaya wrote: > Since setting up this system things are basically fine, but I’m having a > frustrating problem. > > I rip the new Tears for Fears CD on my MAC , physically connect the > external SSD to it, and transfer the ripped files to it. > > Then I reconnect the SSD to the Pi, go

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-03-02 Thread Dhammavijaya
Since setting up this system things are basically fine, but I’m having a frustrating problem. I rip the new Tears for Fears CD on my MAC , physically connect the external SSD to it, and transfer the ripped files to it. Then I reconnect the SSD to the Pi, go into LMS via PiCorePlayer and rescan.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-02-09 Thread P Nelson
Dhammavijaya wrote: > Excellent! Have reformatting to NTFS and all is now recognised. It’s > simple when you know how, > > Many thanks! Couple of items for next steps. 1. When everything is working used the backup feature in Picore to backup the SD card, look for "SD Card Image". That way

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-02-09 Thread Dhammavijaya
kidstypike wrote: > No jiggery pokery needed. > > Is this a sata SSD? if so just format it as NTFS in Windows, and connect > it to your pi as you would a USB stick. > > I have 2 sata SSD drives connected to my Pi/piCorePlayer, no problem at > all. > > 37195 Excellent! Have reformatting to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-02-09 Thread Dhammavijaya
kidstypike wrote: > No jiggery pokery needed. > > Is this a sata SSD? if so just format it as NTFS in Windows, and connect > it to your pi as you would a USB stick. > > I have 2 sata SSD drives connected to my Pi/piCorePlayer, no problem at > all. > > 37195 You make it look so easy! I am a

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-02-09 Thread kidstypike
Dhammavijaya wrote: > OK. I got this thing going. Testing it with just a USB memory stick > attached. > > All great , so I bought a Kingston SSD drive and adapter to load up my > music collection. Now the trouble starts. > > I either need to mount it to the Rpi, which seems to require a lot of

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-02-09 Thread Dhammavijaya
I think I particularly need to know what to put as share name and share type. At the moment I keep getting “Disk Mount Error” Dhammavijaya's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37547 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-02-09 Thread Dhammavijaya
d6jg wrote: > No special settings. Just tell the Touch to connect to the LMS on > piCorePlayer OK. I got this thing going. Testing it with just a USB memory stick attached. All great , so I bought a Kingston SSD drive and adapter to load up my music collection. Now the trouble starts. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-02-08 Thread d6jg
Dhammavijaya wrote: > Is there anything I need to know to enable this set up to to use the > Touch’s optical output to a Chord Mojo? Do I have to select special > settings for this in piCorePlayer? No special settings. Just tell the Touch to connect to the LMS on piCorePlayer Jim

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-02-07 Thread Paul Webster
You can continue to use your Touch as a player. The RPi then acts as a server for your Touch. A minimal version would also not need a screen or an extra hardware for audio output (because the Touch is handling the output). Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-02-07 Thread Dhammavijaya
Apesbrain wrote: > Set up the Raspberry Pi as a server running piCorePlayer and LMS and > wired to your router. Attach the hard drive via USB to the RPi or to > your router if it has USB input. Use the Touch for control and for > optical output. > > https://docs.picoreplayer.org/how-to/ Is

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-01-03 Thread P Nelson
Dhammavijaya wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to revive my Touch and use it connected physically to a USB > HDD. > > I need maybe 1TB of data. > > Is there a recommended modern one that works well with both the Touch > and a MAC? For many years I connected an externally powered usb hard drive to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-01-03 Thread Dhammavijaya
Apesbrain wrote: > Set up the Raspberry Pi as a server running piCorePlayer and LMS and > wired to your router. Attach the hard drive via USB to the RPi or to > your router if it has USB input. Use the Touch for control and for > optical output. > > https://docs.picoreplayer.org/how-to/

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-01-02 Thread Apesbrain
Set up the Raspberry Pi as a server running piCorePlayer and LMS and wired to your router. Attach the hard drive via USB to the RPi or to your router if it has USB input. Use the Touch for control and for optical output. https://docs.picoreplayer.org/how-to/

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-01-02 Thread bpa
Dhammavijaya wrote: > Thanks. It did actually work well for years, but now the drive is not > being recognised. > > I don’t know anything about raspberry Pis but I am interested. > > My requirements would be just the basic needed to run a music system. It > would need optical output, ideally a

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-01-02 Thread Dhammavijaya
slartibartfast wrote: > From your previous posts you have tried this before. I am guessing it > didn't work very well. Nothing has changed in that respect. Why not use > a Raspberry Pi as a server? > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Thanks. It did actually work well for years, but now

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-01-02 Thread slartibartfast
Dhammavijaya wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to revive my Touch and use it connected physically to a USB > HDD. > > I need maybe 1TB of data. > > Is there a recommended modern one that works well with both the Touch > and a MAC?From your previous posts you have tried this before. I am guessing >

[SlimDevices: Touch] Straightforward Hard Drive to revive Touch

2022-01-02 Thread Dhammavijaya
Hi I'd like to revive my Touch and use it connected physically to a USB HDD. I need maybe 1TB of data. Is there a recommended modern one that works well with both the Touch and a MAC? Dhammavijaya's Profile: