radioshoes;573643 Wrote: > I've had a Touch for several months now, and have generally been very > happy with it. Yet in recent weeks it's begun to drive me nuts. I hope > someone can help! > > The problem seems to lie with the Squeezebox music scanner. I first > noticed that there was a tendency for the Touch to disconnect from the > Squeezebox server - located on my laptop - between album tracks. At > this point, the remaining track time would start counting down from 59 > minutes. > > Initially, this was happening via a wireless connection to my Netgear > router. But it still happens now I'm connected to my laptop via > ethernet. > > On examining the Server Control Panel, I noticed that when the > connection is lost (and sometimes you do get a Touch message to the > effect that it's having difficulty connecting, other times you just get > no sound), something fishy is going on under Music Scan Details (under > the Status tab). Usually, the progress bar is all green, suggesting > that a rescan has just taken place. Hit Rescan and, as often as not, > though a scan begins, it ends almost immediately and the connection > does not resume. Try again, and suddenly it's clear that the scan has > begun in earnest - at which point the next track will usually begin to > play. > > Can anyone at least begin to suggest what might be happening? I have a > large music library (over 35,000 tracks) and I'm using Windows 7. > What's especially puzzling is why this has only started to happen so > often recently. While using a wireless connection, I use to suffer the > odd drop-out, but nothing like as bad as it is now - where I can rarely > make it through to the end of an album without several interruptions.
Which version of sbs are you running on the laptop? Where are your tracks located? - in a disk in the laptop or on an external disk connected to the laptop? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81667 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
