kidstypike wrote: 
> Yes, you have it about right.
> 
> However I wouldn't get too exited about it, the Touch's server is ok if
> you give a player a track or an album to play and let it get on with it.
> If you start flicking through the menus, starting & stopping tracks,
> ect., the server will eventually crash, and you will need to re-scan the
> library, not a very good UX.
> 
> OTOH, (not sure why I'm typing this), but did you know that any of the
> Squeezeboxes on your local network can play the music files on the
> Touch's attached USB/SD card.
> 
> On the Touch running the server, browse to "Choose player" > select a
> player, go to "My Music" > "Switch Library" > select "Touch USB".
> 
> 28322
> 
> 28323

thanks for the confirm on power, and the crash warning. Yea, I realize
it's not ideal, but if you go back to my first post, its for a friend
who has simple expectations, and has a difficult time grasping what is
going on behind the scenes (i.e. "why do I need my laptop on?" - to run
LMS). I had thought of building hime a picore with a usb HDD as a server
(what I an using), but I feared him having to do anything through the ip
address configuration screens, and why not save a couple $. It seems
with tinysc/touch, anything I have to talk him through over the phone
will be exclusively on the touch.

If it does crash, even if he trashes the sd/usb, he can listen to
mysb.com until we get things fixed. I'll have him keep a backup image of
the usb on his pc.

He has been enjoying SB exclusively with mysb.com, and now we want to
add his music library, so we'll see how it goes. I do appreciate the
note that you can access the sd/usb with other players, but this will be
one player only.

One thing I was looking for, haven't found via search yet, I saw a
reference to samba transfer of files to the sd/usb on the touch, but I
haven't yet found how to initiate it on the touch side of things. It
would be nice if he could add new music via samba rather than
unplug/plug.

Jim


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