When I recently posted that I was going to run an Squeezebox Touch with some of the music files on an SD card, a couple of people posted that they would be interested in how I got on. In addition, JJZolx suggested that SDXC cards might be used instead of SDHC which have a 32GB limit.
So, I got a SanDisk 64GB SDXC card, formatted it to FAT32 (using the excellent FAT32format utility), put some music on it (in FLAC format), and tried it. It worked with absolutely no problems; although I only had about 3GB of music on it. I then decided to try and test the 32GB limit. So I reformatted the card, and shoved a whole mass of arbitrarily chosen files onto the card (actually avoiding music files to try and speed things up - Windows directories - Program files dirs etc) to bring the usage up to 31GB. I then added the music files used earlier, as they were known to play fine, which I reckoned should span the 32GB limit. Copying the files to the card took hours (my desktop PC is a very ordinary i3-2120/4GB device), and scanning them on the SbT took even longer (I gave up and went to bed and left it to it...). But, today I have been playing all of the files on that card perfectly happily. This means that I can use a USB stick and a SDXC card, with different folder structures for different music, with a very neat and compact little player. Currently I have 64GB SanDisk items for both, but by the end of the winter I will probably replace them both with 256GB versions (unless 512GB is available at reasonable prices - 1TB in a year to 15 months perhaps). That will then be a very tidy little music player. In fact, I would say it is impossible to beat for quality, versatility and value. Please Logitech can we have an SbT 5 or 7 (or 'Delphi' or whatever name you like), with slightly bigger screens, 2 x USB (incl v3.0), SDXC card slot and maybe micro-SD slot, faster processors (ARMs?) and more RAM; yes the price would go up (2x -> 2.5x) but so what, it would still be good value. Anyway, the current (or late) SbT will still be good with 256GB USB memory-stick and SD card. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arthurb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56956 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96899 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
