As this forum seems to be the place to go for getting tiny Logitech Media Server (tinyLMS) working on the Sb Touch, I wanted to provide my experience which might help others.
In this forum, some were successful in using a USB powered Toshiba Cavino portable hard drive with TinyLMS. I purchased a 1 Tb 3.0 USB version. It is nice small drive and very quiet. Following the tips provided in the fourm, I did the following: 1) Re-formatted to FAT32 2) Removed non music, rip reports etc., (from a duplicate of the master copy) 3) Removed embedded artwork from the files, keeping only folder.jpg in each folder (from a duplicate of the master copy) 4) Removed non-essential ID tags, that were not needed for the LMS database (from a duplicate of the master copy) I have about 3,500 tracks with about 2,500 FLAC and 1,000 MP3. Tiny LMS will also serve 2 SB radios connected by Wifi. I was successful getting tiny LMS to scan the files, but it was very slow and took overnight. The SB Touch with tinyLMS was working for about 2 weeks, but it would crash and restart frequently. One day it crashed and I could not get it going again. I also had to use the reset buttom to restore factory setting to get the SB Touch to respond. I removed the portable drive and examined it on my windows machine. The LMS database files were corrupted as indicated by chkdsk. I cleared the files and tried a new complete scan, but I could not get it to rescan. I even reformated the drive and recopied the files from the master. Again, it would not rescan. Thinking my SB Touch had hardware problems, I had friend try it on his Touch without success. I gave up on the Toshiba drive, and it now serves as a backup to my desktop. I switched to an external powered Western Digital Drive, which was my prior backup drive. (This drive is a bit noisy for a music room and may be a problem for quiet sections in music when noise from the drive will be noticeable.) This solved the scan problem. A scan that would take hours, now completed in about 5-10 minutes. TinyLMS on the Touch is also a lot more reliable. In a two week period, it crashed and restarted by itself only once. I have not had to use the reset button, which I had to do to frequently using the USB powered drive. I highly recommend people use an external powered hard drive to get TinyLMS to work. While some USB powered drives might work, it not worth the headache and lost time. Take the Logitech recommendation and do not use USB powered drives. I dont know if a external powered USB hub would have also solved the problem, as I did not try it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Nelson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58158 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82070
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