dusty;545038 Wrote: > Is it possible to rip CDs directly to an USB drive attached to the > Touch? > This would be faster than drag/dropping over the network and less > cumbersome than attaching the USB drive directly to my computer to rip.
You can do it, but I doubt very much that it will be faster. The Touch is a little CPU challenged and copying files to its drive across the network tends to be slow, so I'd expect it would slow down the ripping and encoding process. Especially the encoding process if you're doing FLAC and your ripping software places the interim WAV file in the target directory. That means the WAV file has to be written to the Touch's drive, then read from it and then the resulting FLAC file written back. No less than three trips across the network. And if your ripper runs the encoder in the background it will be writing the next WAV file while reading the previous one and writing the resulting FLAC file. It could get ugly. It will probably also crush the Squeezebox Server running on the Touch while you're doing the rip. I would rip locally then drag & drop over the network if doing only a couple of albums. It may be cumbersome, but it would be much faster to just attach the drive to the ripping computer when you have a lot of files to copy over. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78526 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
