Yes. You can plug in a harddrive to the TOUCH and the built in "tiny" SbS will allow you to play that music. But the TOUCH and its built in tiny SbS will not look across your network for the music files stored on your NAS.
You have two options. (1) Run a full blown SbS on your NAS and then it can serve music to the TOUCH, or (2) copy your music to a USB drive and attach this directly to the TOUCH and use the internal "tiny" SbS to play the music. If you don't like #2 simply because you don't want another drive with your music on it, keep in mind that one location for your files is a very bad idea, a NAS, even with RAID, is NOT a backup. Many people misunderstand the "backup" benefits of RAID (that is, it is great when you need instant access to data when one drive fails...e.g., in a customer/business situation). But all the RAID disks could go bad, the NAS could be stolen or damaged in fire/flood/lightening strike, etc. So one should have multiple copies of their media files on SEPARATE units (and preferably in separate locations.) I have a NAS, but in addition also have 5 1TB USB drives containing all my files stored at 3 different locations. A couple hundred bucks for a 1 or 2 TB drive is nothing compared to the pain of ripping and tagging a large music collection. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73830 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
