Here are a couple of issues that have arisen in two days of playing with the Touch. I have my Touch connected to an external hard drive via USB. I'm also running SBS on my Mac with OS X Snow Leopard. I have identical libraries on the Mac and the USB drive on the Touch. Most of the files are in Apple Lossless (ALAC) format.
The first issue has to do with accessing files via multiple entries in the artist list. The list shows names from both the Artist and Album Artist tag. For example, tracks on a classical album might have "JS Bach" in the Artist field and "Yo-Yo Ma" in the Album Artist field. The album shows up in the artist list twice, once for Bach and once for Yo-Yo. If I try to select a track from this album on the external USB drive from the Yo-Yo Ma entry on the artist list, I get a spinning icon and no music. However, if I select the same item from the Bach entry, the track plays. That's on the external USB drive. If I switch libraries so that the Touch accesses the files on my Mac over wi-fi, the problem goes away. I can access the track through Bach or Yo-Yo. The second issue is also related to tagging. The internal Touch server seems to throw a bunch of tags into the Artist list. Not just Album Artist--which I see on my Mac too--but the WRT tag on ALAC files too. I don't see those on the Mac. For instance, I've got a bunch of Velvet Underground albums. I ripped them using iTunes and they've all got "Lou Reed" in the WRT tag. When I run SBS on my Mac and click Lou Reed, I just see his solo albums. However, on the Touch with the external USB drive, clicking Lou Reed shows his solo records and all the albums with the Velvets. If I select one of these Velvet tracks, I get the spinning icon and no music as described above. However, I can access the music via the artist entry for Velvet Underground. It really would be nice if the two versions of the server were more consistent. Someone on the tagging forum said that there's no way to turn off display of Album Artist tags in Apple Lossless files. If that's the case, you should at least be able to use them to play music. -- MadCityGeoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MadCityGeoff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17429 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77519 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
