adamdea;545715 Wrote: > 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.
Join the Linn forum first - I was there first before I became interested in the Squeezebox... Gess why... -- MCG555 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MCG555's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37801 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78386 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
