First of all, thank you all for describing some really good ways and tools to make SBs Tiny server to work. I also am inclined to making things simple and avoiding the PC, the home network, and complications whenever possible - thus playing my music from locally attached USB disk ONLY.
Both Jean2's and treeplek's advises and tools here have proved in my case to be extremely effective in making my SBT very stable, so thank you guys sooo much! However, one strange thing has happened yesterday. I detached the USB disk to add more music - some 50 GB of WAVs of re-scanned CDs. I reattached the disk back to the SB, and of course it took usual time to scan new files etc. When I finally started to play, the sound reproduction had completely changed. It started to sound like some old and very cheap CD player, and the overall sound was kind of "compressed". It sounded really bad whatever I was playing - either newly scanned files or the old files, either mp3 or FLAC or WAV- it all sounded kind of "boomy", with cut low and high frequencies, and mids having some strange "reverb" effect. Well, I am generally very critical to sound quality, and usually only I notice nuances, but in this case it were no nuances - even my kids noticed the change. After one hour of hopeless playing and trying to figure out what happened to my system, after playing with cables, amplifier, trying other DA converter (I use an external DAC only), etc, I decided that the only and the last thing I could try is to just restart the SB... Strangely, it worked! Everything came back to normal, good sound that I always have from the Touch. What could have caused this? Re-scanning of the library - i.e. if the scanning process takes away some main processor's "resources"? More importantly, if that is the case, is this opening a door to ways that could lead to further improvement of the Touch's sound? And what does this Tiny server do anyway - why can's we just play files directly from the USB disk without even using the server? I anyway only navigate the music through my "my music" folders system - i just NEVER use genre, artist, album, etc , so I do not even want the server, nor the boring scanning process each time I add more music... Well, thank you all for your opinions... Hazim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hazim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56067 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82070 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
