MelonMonkey;484166 Wrote: > The big reason why NTFS support would likely not be in TinySC or > available for other platforms is simple. It's a proprietary format. > Microsoft AFAIK, do not publish detailed specs nor source code to get it > implemented elsewhere. They certainly also don't license a stack that > can be implemented in other operating systems.The same could be said for Fat > and Fat32, and no one is talking about not including Fat32 support.
MelonMonkey;484166 Wrote: > Even Mac OS can only read NTFS by default - you have to install one of > the third-party solutions to be able to write.Not true with Snow Leopard. > You do have to take an extra step to support RW with NTFS on OSX, but it's easy to do...using nothing but OSX's ntfs driver...no 3rd party driver necessary now. MelonMonkey;484166 Wrote: > Not having NTFS would affect a large percentage of customers. > Unfortunately it would affect precisely the customers that this feature > would be most useful for. I mean anyone who is going to go to the > trouble of setting up a dedicated server would know how to obtain third > party software to format their disks any which way. But the new TinSC > is the perfect solution for the less savvy and mom and pop who just want > to (or can only) connect an external drive - perhaps one they already > have. They'll be stopped dead in their tracks when the Touch is unable > to see any of their music.I couldn't agree more. I do wonder, though, about > how robust the TinySC scanner will have to be made in order to successfully scan a huge collection. Personally, I'd love to see a separate windows app that will scan the NTFS drive and create the SQLite db on the external drive in a cache folder with all the track url fixed up to point to file:///media/sda1/blah blah. That would save folks the agony of waiting hours and hours for TinySC to scan a big drive. All the heavy lifting would have already been done by a big CPU machine. SBSTouchPrep.exe. You know you want one. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70142 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
