Thanks you for your recommendations Iphone. I think I am actually upset loosing more time in set-up than listening music. As initially advertised, I expected just plugging my existing powered USB drive in the touch and listen to my music with a nice touch screen, brosing my cd's like if it was an Ipod.
Now, 1-2 months later, it still doesn't work and appears very expensive to me for something not working as expected. I am currently making a kind of 'last chance': cleaning my disc, formatting,... in order to try to get this working. If result is not good (and I am sincerly losing hope...), I'll probably resell it and buy something else. I think that if you need a server/computer on, the benefit of the touch is, IMO, very limited. I initally choosed the touch compared to the teac WAP as: - WAP remote control seems unstable - Touch is made by logitech, and my previous experience of this brand was excellent - touch is more "audiophile" If it does not work, I think I will end up wit a system composed of: - One Ipod touch as remote control - One source that may be: - Apple airport express with the music hosted on a NAS, but I have a lot of FLAC music, which appears not to be compatible - One NAS with the "Mpd" application, but I found very few feedback of users statint if good or not. In this case, I will connect a USB DAC and "Mpod" on the ipod touch - one fanless computer making all the job from music to video, all integrated, with some application working on my ipod touch. I have seen recent models from the brand Shuttle completely fanless with low power consumption - A recycled "thin client" with the same setup, but that would not offer the video processing as these machines have limited capabilities. The advantage is that seconhands are really cheap - A popcorn hour running Mpd, same issue as above - A DVICO from the recent models, seems rather plug & play, include a system of webremote on the Ipod touch - A DAC, depending on the quality of the source, V-DAC from musical fidelity seems a good option All these combinations have their pro & cons, and as I already purchase the touch, I'll try to make this work first. Then, well, we'll see what I find! But at the end of the day, I think this type of technology is still young and few good plug & play exists. Maybe the sonos, but also seems quite expensive for what it is. iPhone;578712 Wrote: > Expectations for the Price you paid, what is that crap?! > > The Touch costs the exact same amount the SB3 (Classic) did when it > came out. And the Touch is the replacement for the SB3. The Touch is a > NMP (Network Media Player). It is not a Server. > > It does include a feature of a Tiny stripped down version of SBS that > can play songs off of USB media (mainly designed for USB Sticks friends > might bring over). Is it meant to replace a PC or Server running SBS, it > was not designed for that as again its only a feature not full blown > SBS. With some careful planning, proper USB drive, and some > understanding that TinySC is slower and can't be over taxed, it can be > used for the Touch and a second Squeezebox reliably. > > I use the Touch daily with TinySC in the harsh environment of my > vehicle and on the weekends at the cabin. Yes I was part of the Touch > Beta so I have well over a year's time with TinySC. I can tell > everybody its come a long way since the days when TinySC could only be > launched using SSH and having to use CLI to mount the media, lines of > code to do a scan, then tell it to start TinySC. One wrong command or > keystroke and it was time to start over. > > So if one is going to use it as a full time server in a home > environment where one could just as easily use an Atom DIY Music Server > ($25 a year in electricity), then one needs to except that TinySC has > limitations, can't use plugins, and is much slower or could crash where > SBS wouldn't. It would also go a long way to follow suggestions from > Touch Users that have been using TinySC successfully for some time. > > It is best to buy a compliant USB Standard Certified drive. If using a > USB powered USB Drive, I strongly suggest buying a Toshiba USB drive. > 1) Use an external powered drive or hub (some hubs do cause problems > though) > 2) Make sure the USB drive is a single drive (not a 1 or 2 TB using > multiple drives in an enclosure) > 3) Music only, make sure no other files are stored on the drive and > keep the directory structure simple > 4) Make sure to use less then 80% of the Formated size of the drive > 5) Make sure the drive doesn't act as a CD drive when plugged into a > PC > 6) Make sure the drive doesn't spin down or sleep or use energy saving > tools > 7) Make sure album art doesn't exceed 600 by 600 or 300K file size (the > smaller the better) > 8) Don't use FLAC above -5 compression > > This is a good start to reduce problems -- studkiram ------------------------------------------------------------------------ studkiram's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40502 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82176 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
