bassedolie;672153 Wrote: > Hi all, > > I am considering buying a SB touch to add in with my current marantz > amp/cd combo player. I was wondering what the best way to run it with. > > I don't particularly want to turn on my pc to use it and neither do I > want to get a NAS drive so either an external hard drive or a small > number of high capacity SD cards/usb sticks. > > Pretty much all my music is regular cds which I have ripped as wma > lossless in Windows Media Player. From my understanding the Touch can > only support this format when streaming so I will need to convert to > FLAC. I have tried it in foobar and it seems to work. Anything I should > be careful of regarding tags etc? I care little for album art images > personally. > > One thing I realised I can do is whilst converting all my music to FLAC > is upsample it in SOX from 16/44 to 16/96 (except for the odd hdcd I > have I see no reason to use 24/96?). Would this be beneficial for the > SB's DAC or should I just leave it in original form. Certainly would > use up a fair amount of extra space to upsample it but beyond that it's > not really extra hassle as it needs to be converted anyway. > > Thanks in advance
*most* people will point out that upsampling the files will be of no benefit. The TOUCH *can* work with a USB drive plugged in, running the internal "tinySbS" and playing FLAC files. Search this forum for suggestions on USB drives, etc. Basically, use a USB drive that gets its own power, set it NOT to go into standby mode, leave it always attached to the TOUCH (otherwise everytime you connect it a complete scan will take place), and when you do the intial setup/scan, this can take a very long time (hours and hours). Don't try to do anything else with the touch while the scan is taking place. And make sure your USB drive only has one partition. The Touch doesn't deal with some of the 2nd partitions included on some USB drives (that act like CD rom drives, contain programs, etc.) And best to have ONLY music files or album art on the USB drive. It will scan the entire drive, even if only part of drive is music. Bottom line, get the right USB drive, set it up properly, and don't think you'll be plugging and unplugging usb drive often. -- garym Location 1: Vortexbox Appliance 6TB (1.10) > SbS 7.6.2 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) Location 2: Win7(64) laptop > LMS 7.7.0 > Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio and laptop) Retired: SB3, Duet Receiver Controlled at both locations with: iPhone (iPeng), iPad (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.7 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Additional Tagging - mp3tag ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91816 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
