aubuti;536068 Wrote: > You seriously mis-read the manual. It never says to can play your music > off an external USB drive without running SBS. All Squeezeboxes, even > the Touch, require _some_ form of SBS to stream music. It could be the > SBS built-in to the Touch, or SBS running on a computer or NAS, or the > SBS-server-in-the-cloud that is known as mysqueezebox.com. The magic > box you wish for is not possible, and certainly not via a firmware > update. > > You should proceed as follows: > 1. Attach the USB drive and let the scan finish. The first scan may > take a long time, because it scans the entire HDD, not only a specific > music folder. You will get best results if you don't do anything else > with the Touch while it is scanning. > > 2. After it has scanned, there will be a SQL database on the external > HDD with all of the metadata for your tracks. That database is what SBS > uses to present lists of albums, artists, tracks, genres, etc. That is > why scanning is required. > > 3. If the scan is completed, you can safely remove the USB drive by > using the Eject/Disconnect (I forget which it's called) menu item. > > 4. When you re-attach the USB drive, it will do a quick scan to look > for new and changed music only. This will not take as long as the full > scan, and you should be able to use the Touch even while it is doing > the incremental scan. > > Most pc music software does some form of scanning as well, but if you > can't tolerate using SBS or doing this basic scanning as described, > maybe Squeezeboxes aren't the product for you and you should go back to > listening on your pc.
Question re: Step 2, How does the "SQL database" get downloaded to the external HD? Do i have to do anything? thx -- gellie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gellie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77434 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
