1: There is no printed manual. There is a section for the Touch in the wiki, click on the community tab at the top of this page and go to the wiki. Scroll down to the Hardware section and click on the Touch entry. This gives a few general hints about using the Touch ibternal server.
Its a little paranoid about bus powered drives. There are many bus powered drives that will work fine when plugged direct into the Touch. Some though actually draw more power than the USB spec allows and these will have problems. Thus the recommendation to use a powered hub with bus powered drives. The consensus here seems to be: try it direct first and only resort to a powered hub if it doesn't work when connected directly. There is no detailed reference manual that goes into detail about every menu option on the Touch. Your best bet is to spend some time and go through all the setting options and get familiar with what is there. There is a lot of stuff under the advanced settings menu. It sounds like most of your issues are related to server problems, I'll cover a procedure I have found which seems to have a good probability of success, its similar to the one in the wiki, with a few modifications. First eject the drive (from home menu) then unplug the drive. Unplug the power on the touch. Plug the drive into a PC or Mac and delete the .squeezebox directory. On some OSes a name that starts with a '.' is hidden so you should turn on hidden files. This deletes any existing database on the disk. If you have a corrupted database on the disk from a previous scan that didn't complete strange things can happen. Now plug in the power to the Touch. Wait a couple minutes so the initialization is complete and things have settled down. Now plug in the USB drive. You should get a popup saying the a USB device has been recognized and the server is starting. You will get a message about ejecting, at this point say you want to see the progress. From now on do not do ANYTHING with the Touch. Don't touch the screen, don't try and show pictures, don't try and look at the menus, don't try and play internet radio. This is very important, the scan process takes a lot of memory and anything else you do can use up enough memory that the scan can crash. This starts a full scan of the disk. This can take a LONG time for large collections of music. Yours is not too big so it shouldn't be too bad. First it finds all files on the disk and determines which are audio and cover art files. You will get a file count as it goes. When it has visited all the files you will get a completed message. Then it goes and reads every audio file it previously found and extracts any tag information in the file. It builds a database of information about each song. This can take a long time. When it is done you get a completed message. Now it goes and reads the cover art it found on the disk. At this point it is cataloging and resizing the cover art. Large cover art can really slow this down, and might even crash the server if the image size is really large. Again when it is done you will get a completed message. You need to wait until you get all three completed messages before continuing. At this point you can touch the Touch again. Here is where I differ, at this point I recommend ejecting the USB device using the home menu, physically unplug the drive cable, unplug the power to the Touch. Plug the Touch back in, wait a couple minutes. Plug the USB drive back in. At this point it will do a quick scan looking for any new files it didn't see last time. If there was nothing new on the disk it should complete this fairly quickly and NOW you are ready to play music! Many people don't wait long enough for the initial scan to complete and thus leave a corrupted database on the disk. Thus the next time they plug it in it goes and does a full scan. They then try and play music while its still scanning, causing all kinds of problems. One very important thing to note is that if the drive is plugged in when the Touch boots, you get NO indication whatsoever that a scan is happening!! Thus when you try and play music things are going to be very slow and its quite easy to kill the server when trying to play music while a scan is going on. This is why I highly recommend to get in the habit of always plugging the drive in AFTER booting the Touch, then you KNOW when the scan is done. If you try this procedure and you are still having the problems come back with the details and we can try and work them out. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78386 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
