Hello all,
After spending hours and hours reading reviews and forum posts on the Squeezebox touch, I have today bitten the bullet and ordered one. I have also ordered a 1TB external HDD as I intend (like many others) to attempt to use the Touch without a computer (except to rip my CD collection). I am of course very worried about about the many user reports of problems when using an external USB HDD, and admit that I have placed the order against my better judgement given the posts I have read. I am crossing my fingers that it will work, as it is exactly what I am looking for if it will work in this way. I really don't want to have the computer involved with my HiFi, apart from the initial ripping of CD albums. My main question is this: If I can fit my CD collection (or the majority of it) onto my HDD in Wav uncompressed format rather than FLAC will this reduce the strain on the Touch being used as a server and hence decrease my chances of running into issues with buffering, dropouts etc.? My CD collection is very roughly around 800 albums. I don't intend to use the album artwork feature and 99% of the files will be CD quality as my external DAC can't handle high def files, though I may get a few just to see how they sound through the Touch's DAC. The HDD won't be used for storing anything else apart from music for the Touch. The HDD I have ordered is : Toshiba StorE Alu 1TB External Hard Drive USB 2.0 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145041 It runs from it's own power adapter which I realise is one possible problem area. If anyone has any comments on this external hard drives suitability also that would be great! Many thanks in advance for your time and comments.... -- woodnut ------------------------------------------------------------------------ woodnut's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38846 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79896 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
