I have now been playing with the USB memory stick for a couple of days, and I still have a smile on my face; the performance is perfectly adequate, and there have been no glitches. I always switch the SBT unit off when I have finished (I live in a rural area of England), but the start-up time, whilst a bit slow, is not a problem; note though that this is still with only approximately 1k tracks.
I have also experimented with putting an SD card in as well, only 4GB from an old Creative ZEN portable player. I had a few classical works on it, perhaps a couple of dozen, in AAC/m4a format, and switching between the USB stick and the SD card was slow, but possible to live with, although that is partly because I am contemplating having completely different forms of music on the two media. It seems to take 30 seconds or so to switch from SD card to USB stick (if there have been no updates), and I can live with that; others may disagree of course. The great advantage to me is that I can organise the SD card quite differently for classical music, with a folder format of: Composer/Sub-genre/Work/Artists/Tracks. I can then just browse the folder structure to find what I want; this is just about convenient music playing, and I personally see no use for things like playlists, but different sort structures might be useful if I can do that. Essentially, with large(ish) USB-stick and SD-cards, the SBT becomes a very neat little box for a very modest price. I am amazed that Logitech have just dropped it without creating a successor especially as technology is rapidly improving (with lower power use too): an SBT with faster processor and more storage, especially if USB3 could be incorporated and SDXC, even if the price doubled would be extremely attractive. Ho-hum... JJZolx has said that SDXC (of 64GB+) cards can, although perhaps not always, be used in SDHC sockets, provided they are formatted as FAT32, and there is some stuff about this on Wiki. The big question is: has anyone here tried an SDXC card of >32GB on an SBT? Has anyone got any thoughts on large SD cards and the SBT? Anyway, a SqueezeBox Touch can certainly work with reasonable quality USB drives for a simple and silent digital music player. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arthurb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56956 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96141 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
