Let me turn the question around. Let's say you have a collection of 15,000 FLAC files that cost over $10,000 and takes up about 300 gig plus album art. If you have that much music, you probably have an amp that cost say $1,500 speakers that cost $2,500 or more and who knows how much in cables and furniture for the system. You probably also have a at least $1,000 worth of computer equipment in your house and pay a monthly bill for internet and TV of over $100 per month plus maybe $15 dollars a month for Rhapsody. If you are like me, you also have a touch or IPhone with iPeng to run your Squeezeboxes.
Now you like the Squeezebox concept and want to get the killer quality from playing those FLAC files through the latest Squeezebox. Is is reasonable to expect a Touch costing $299 to handle those 15,000 FLAC files through a USB powered hard drive with TinySC? That's like saying that my IPod should cost $300, be wireless, be open source, hold 300 gig of lossless files, play internet radio and many music services, have many free plug-ins, come with a remote control and have exceptional audio quality. My point is that you do get a lot for $300 with the Touch. You may not get a music player that can handle 15,000 files without a sever. I have no agenda or particular objective in mind. I don't see that that matters anyway. It is just opinion. (If I have any point of view it is that I would not like to see Squeezebox products go away. They offer the opportunity for great sound quality, convenience and flexibility that is hard to beat for anywhere near the price.) Fairness is not particularly conducive to quantification. Is it fair that someone makes $500,000 a year when others are starving? What should the income disparity be in the US? Should it be the same in India? Is it fair that I can't build a gas station next to your house? Is it fair that Apple doesn't tell me how large a PDF file I can view on an Ipad? Is it fair that Microsoft failed to tell me that I could not edit a complex 300 page book with lots of photographs and charts in Publisher? Is it fair that Logitech doesn't tell you how many music files TinySC can handle? None of these are simple issues that can be proven by garnering "facts." My fairness point is that, I for one, am not upset or surprised that the Touch has trouble with some large music collections on at least some USB drives. As far as vilification, there are posts claiming that Logitech advertised the Touch as being capable of playing an unlimited number of files without the server and essentially accusing Logitech of false advertising. Those claims are not accurate, as others have pointed out. I am not, however, without sympathy for someone who buys a Touch to use at the office and plugs in a USB drive only to discovery that his collection is too big or his drive has some compatibility problem or his collection is poorly tagged for whatever reason. I would try a few things and if they didn't work, I would send it back for a refund. I have returned many products that didn't work out. Before long I will succumb to another interesting gadget. Thanks to all for making this an interesting thread. -- jcowling ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jcowling's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9345 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79199 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
