I haven't played anything via USB, just hard-wired gigabit ethernet with
music residing on an HP MSS (495EX),
I have two music libraries: ~1100 CD's ripped to Apple Lossless via
iTunes
About 9 24/96 albums in a separate FLAC folder on the MSS.
SBS is installed on the MSS.
Touch is connected
Hi,
I see a lot of people frustrated with making the Touch work
with an external USB hard drive. After some work and investigation,
I now have TinySB working as I want. I wanted to share my experience,
so that people who want to use TinySB have a better chance at success.
1) Why the
bpa;577157 Wrote:
I've been flipping between 7.6 and 7.5 and forget to reinstall the
applet so I missed the menu.
World service works ok for me using AAC but not WMA on the applet.
Are you having problems with the AAC or WMA or both streams accessed
using the applet BBC Radio menu,
bluegaspode;577291 Wrote:
I did use the Buffalo Linkstation quite a while for Squeezebox Server.
But its very slow and it doesn't make much fun (also it's quite some
fiddling to get it working).
Agreed - sold mine and swapped to an Atom based PC server, it wasn't
too slow but is fiddly to
There are two issues which are intermixed and it is hard to separate
1. BBC have had problems with WMA streams in the last few days such as
R3 swapped with R4 and BBC 7 swapped with 1Xtra and then BBC 7 WMA
being silent.
2. BBC iPlayer applet playing World Service WMA stream and p[ossibly
I agree in theory there should be no difference.
When I was using a Duet and had only standard 16/44.1 files I used
wireless and was perfectly happy.
On the Touch I've switched to wired. Main reason is that there were
problems on my system with some skips and too much (re)buffering,
mainly with
Hi Jean,
you should use the fab4 branch rather than the Jive branch, you can end
up with a real live development environment for the Touch, modify
drivers, do all kinds of fun stuff! Jive is for the controller, fab4 is
the Touch. For just cross compiling programs what you have done is more
than
A quicky tip when using the Touch to control another player:
Change the Wallpaper of the other player so you know which player is
currently being controlled by the Touch.
After selecting your SB3 from the Touch as garym details, now go to
Touch Settings Screen Wallpaper *select one* that is
I Know 7.6 was feature incomplete for Somers time but i read al kind of
positive messages Aboutaleb The quality. So THE question arises, what
is THE best version at this stage of development?
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ralphpnj;577275 Wrote:
I agree with iPhone. Maybe I somehow missed it but when did a USB
connection become the most desirable one? Last thing I recall was
reading about what big pain in the neck USB connections where and how
much better it was to transmit the data via a network connection,
if you also have a controller and control Touch and Radio etc on each
other keep matching wallpaper on each device for each other device ? is
also a good idea makes thing easier.
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Mnyb
Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS
toby10;577378 Wrote:
A quicky tip when using the Touch to control another player:
Change the Wallpaper of the other player so you know which player is
currently being controlled by the Touch.
After selecting your SB3 from the Touch as garym details, now go to
Touch Settings Screen
firedog;577361 Wrote:
I agree in theory there should be no difference.
[snip]
On the Touch I've switched to wired. Main reason is that there were
problems on my system with some skips and too much (re)buffering,
mainly with hi-res files.
Since switching to wired about 99% of these
I've still not resolved this duplication issue, so would appreciate any
suggestions.
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adamdea;577296 Wrote:
..and KR saying in his touch review that via the USB out to
the ayre it gave the best digital 2 channel sound he had heard, I'm
guessing.But I didn't say that USB was the critical element. Some of it has
to
be due to the quality of the Ayre DAC. ;-)
Kal
I have my Touch connected to MHDT Labs Havana. It have more analog
sounding with the outboard DAC.
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2TB Synology 209+II ~ SlimDevices SqueezeBox Classic ~ Zu ASH 75#937;
Digital Coaxial ~ MHDT Labs Havana ~ VdH D102 Hybrid MKIII ~ WooAudio 6
SE(M) ~ Stefan AudioArts Equinox
Ralph, thanks. I'm sure Phil is usually helpful; it's unpleasant,
however, to be the exception when all you've done is to ask politely
for advice. And there's no denying that his initial reply was both
condescending and unhelpful.
The fact was that I'd compared the Squeezebox Touch analog
Touchuser;577165 Wrote:
Hi
Can an external DAC be used with the Touch? In other words, is there a
digital out? And if there is, will the Touch pass through wireless to
the digital out? I really like the Touch concept, but the DAC in it
isn't as good as the one I had been using and I'd
ralphpnj;577384 Wrote:
However now I guess we're going a long round of posts claiming that
using the Touch with a USB connection is superior to using the SPDIF
connection. Oh well, have fun.
No, not from me.
I am using Touch with S/PDIF coax to my Tact, sounds very nice. I also
have a
OGS;577426 Wrote:
No, not from me.
I am using Touch with S/PDIF coax to my Tact, sounds very nice. I also
have a Music Streamer II+. This is a much better DAC than the one in
the Tact. When I get the Touch USB output to work with the Music
Streamer I'll have much better sound, with all the
ralphpnj;577429 Wrote:
Using a Tact for room correction is definitely not an audiophile
approved configuration but since this is not the Audiophiles section
I guess that it is allowable and forgivable:)
Oh I could just as well posted it in Audiophiles. I have not read any
definitive
Me too. Anyone out there who can help?
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ozzymilton;576552 Wrote:
Kal,
If you liked the Touch so much, how come it is rated as Class D ???
I am using the Dac portion on Cary 306 Pro and the Touch sounds very
close to playing CD's through the Cary.
Come on, the Touch is way better than Class D.
Perhaps in this case, the D
OGS;577431 Wrote:
Oh I could just as well posted it in Audiophiles. I have not read any
definitive definitions of audiophile, but I doubt yours would
qualify. If you like to talk rubbish I'll leave you to it...
Funny I wasn't trying to talk rubbish rather I was trying to be
funny. Many
Touchuser;577418 Wrote:
The fact was that I'd compared the Squeezebox Touch analog output to
three other DACs I own:
So I like others am totally confused by this post. How did you compare
the sound of the Touch with/without external DACs and not know about the
Touch's digital output?
Kal Rubinson;577410 Wrote:
But I didn't say that USB was the critical element. Some of it has to
be due to the quality of the Ayre DAC. ;-)
Kal
Well quite. But then there is a reason why the ayre dac has a USB input
and a USB input only.
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adamdea
adamdea;577465 Wrote:
Well quite. But then equally there is (as I recall) a reason why the
ayre dac has a USB input and a USB input only.
Sure there is:
To sell to all the audiophiles who have been led to believe that only
way to get music form their computer is via iTunes and a USB
Thanks, dufferdan, for sharing your impressions.
About the comparison between CD, rip to WAV/burn to CD, and rip to
FLAC/play via the Touch, I too find the CD and its copy to be
undistinguishable from one another when both are played through the
Cambridge Azur. However, the FLAC played through
I maybe have understood just half of what you did and how you did it but
I congratulate you on your persistence.
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Thanks for the reviews guys.
guidof, you should try an external USB hard drive instead of the stick.
Prices have come way down. Less than $100 will easily get you a 1TB
drive.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I may well look into an external USB drive
next.
Guido F.
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guidof
*Front End*: Marantz TT 15S1 Turntable, Virtuoso Wood Cartridge;
Cambridge Azur 840C CD Player; Oppo BDP--83 Universal Player;
Squeezebox Touch Music File Player (digital out to
And yet it appears that the Logitech website still speaks about using
the touch wo a network as noted on p12 of the Squeezebox Touch Features
Guide ??
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dasmueller
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Is the 1TB Canvio *really* quiet?
Guido F.
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guidof
*Front End*: Marantz TT 15S1 Turntable, Virtuoso Wood Cartridge;
Cambridge Azur 840C CD Player; Oppo BDP--83 Universal Player;
Squeezebox Touch Music File Player (digital out to Cambridge Azur 840C
DAC)
*Preamps*: Conrad Johnson Motif
spamtom;577202 Wrote:
After all that hard work finding the right drive. I found out that
networkless touch is not offically supported and firmware version 7.6
stops you from playing music from a local USB drive if your device is
not networked
JohnSwenson;577376 Wrote:
Hi Jean,
you should use the fab4 branch rather than the Jive branch, you can end
up with a real live development environment for the Touch, modify
drivers, do all kinds of fun stuff! Jive is for the controller, fab4 is
the Touch.
Thanks for the tip. I tried to
carib;577508 Wrote:
I maybe have understood just half of what you did and how you did it but
I congratulate you on your persistence.
That's the trouble, I do computer at work, I do computer at home, I do
computer at my parents and computer at my in-laws, so in the end I only
speak computer.
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