NPendrigh;573510 Wrote: > I > I would expect a Touch in stand-alone mode to work like an FM Radio >
I wouldn't... one of the most crucial things about serving local music is tagging and organizing -- not needed on an FM radio. (Note the op'S complaint is about attached drives... which is needed for local music, not radio.. use mysb for that if that's all you want). Add in that USB drives themselves are far from 'standard' -- they do annoying things like spin down (yeah, nice for power savings, bad for waking up and not having the OS decide 'what the heck, this drive is gone now') and violate specs on power draw because they don't want to include a $5 wall wart... As for flash cards.. you have to be very careful buying them -- a frightening number are fake: take a 64M card, write the correct values in the format and the OS will report it is a 32G card... until you put data on it and it fails. And for reasons I've never understood (isn't SD a standard?) timing on SD cards is almost like the olden days of 1M 30-pin simms... "oh, you need the 100ns ones, the 70ns ones don't work on that motherboard..." You see this all the time with digital cameras. It sucks: but then, that's hardly Logitech's fault: the same problems occur on all sorts of other products. The Touch (or any NMP) is far more complicated than an FM radio. It also does a lot more. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81642 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
