I am using my Touch almost exclusively with a directly-attached USB drive. I have a number of downloaded 24 bit files from Linn, HDtracks, Analekta, the Classical shop etc, together with 16 bit flac downloads and rips. Obviously I get the stuttering problem. But that is not the end of it: I am getting fed up having to deal with a host of interrelated problems. 1. the Touch sometimes crashes altogether when playing 24 bit tracks, very occasionally 16 bit flac (doesn't really seem to happen with MP3s or WMAs). It actually turns off and reboots, rescans, sometimes tells me it now can't see the usb drive (which probably got as upset as i did with having its power turned off). 2. Sometimes it just stops playing without crashing 3. This problem seems to happen far more often when using Ipeng, but it does happen when I am controlling the touch manually. 3A. It also seems to happen more often if you try to change the album while it's playing rather than stopping it, deleting the playlist and then starting again: especially in Ipeng but manually too. 4 The Touch seems to particularly dislike my Linn 24 bit download of the Bach St Matthew Passion from Linn. This has 100 tracks in one album . It is also not particularly fond of the Hyperion complete Schubert Lieder edition in 16 bit flac which appears as one album too, even though it consists of 37 cds and 800 odd tracks. 5. The Touch also seems to randomly refuse to recognise the usb drive from time to time and says it can't read it. 6. I have noticed that using Ipeng and when accessing manually (but to a lesser extent) it seems to hang while searching sometimes. Even with my relatively modest 6500 tracks no search = what is the bloody point of this thing anyway? I have tried the very helpful procedure posted earlier and can say that it has definitely helped to deal with the problems; but it has not solved them.
The whole thing is beginning to annoy me. I agree with the view expressed that the Touch is not really up to to running as a stand-alone player and server at present. I don't know whether this is because it is underpowered or because the resident squeezeserver is too buggy, but I just don't think it's quite up to the job. I am guessing that the problem with HD files or big playlists or finding files on the usb drive or interrupting what it's doing or even Ipeng are probably just aspects of that problem. One minor aspect of this incidentally is that on many threads it seems to me that those would are running the player in standalone and those who are not tend to have rather different concerns and experiences, and sometimes talk at cross purposes. I am having problems with my PC at present so I can't compare very effectively running the software on a separate server. I am going to try using the Touch with my QNAP TS-239 NAS in the hope that it will run better that way. If not I am likely to lose patience with it, sell my DAC, preamp and power amps, buy a Linn Magik DSI and go and bore people on another forum. -- adamdea ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78386 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
