kidstypike wrote: > The Touch's inbuilt server doesn't need an internet/wifi connection to > serve local music, and doesn't "phone home". It will play local music > forever, until the user starts to send multiple button presses, then it > just can't handle it and "cr@ps out". User then needs to start over, > with the Touch re-scanning the card/stick/drive which can take ages > depending on the number of tracks. Not a good user experience.
I don't have a Touch so can't test any of this, and you guys seem to know what you're talking about so I'm not arguing any position here, I'm just interested in it sort of tangentially for my travel trailer project and I'm trying to reconcile what joegorin is reporting with the informed replies to the contrary. For instance, I don't know what joegorin meant when he said this after he connected a loopback plug in the ethernet port: "If you try to start with a loopback, you are not allowed to play music at all." What does that mean? It's hard to understand the above statement if a network connection has nothing to do with playing local music. And he also says this: "I found today, experimentally, that if I connect it to a Wi-Fi channel on my router that has no internet connectivity, it will not play the music on the USB thumb drive in the Touch. The messages displayed still make me think it has to "phone home" to be enabled." Again, not sure how to interpret that alongside the other comments about a network connection not being required. kidstypike wrote: > LMS doesn't need/use mysqueezebox.com to serve local music, Radio > stations, or free music service plugins/apps. LMS only needs > mysqueezebox.com when using music services that need authentication. Thanks for that info. It's a piddly thing, but, I think in the case of the Radio's alarm, at least some of the sound files are on mysqueezebox.com so they presumably wouldn't work without an internet connection even with a local LMS. mherger wrote: > It doesn't wait 5 days before crapping out, but it does work for 5 > days, > plays music. Point taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110255 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
