My Touch plays music quite nicely from a 16GB SDHC card.
Mostly high bit-rate MP3, some FLAC, etc.
Organization: Just the "normal" three level Artist/Album/Track
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the + key on the IR remote or the
web interface (if running from my computer).
I finally figured out that a brief tap on "Add to End" is what's
needed. If pressed more than momentarily, the menu goes away.
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The Western Digital "My Passport" drives came with two partitions the
last time I looked. There's a procedure to make the "CD" software
partition invisible I think.
As the Touch was designed before USB3 came out, perhaps that's part of
the problem wit
SBS on the computer. Which, BTW, had problems
completing a rescan (which may be due to a conflict with Microsoft
Security Essentials. I've now excluded MYI and MYD files, but haven't
tried to do a rescan.)
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My Touch has, over the last few weeks, decided not to honor "Add to End"
from the touch screen when trying to add an album to the playlist. BUT
it works fine from the IR remote. It did this before and after the
3/29 7.5.3-r9377 update.
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es part of your Current Playlist."
A curious approach. I'd have thought that selecting individual
tracks/songs to add to a playlist would be highly desirable.
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Kal's Stereophile review is now online:
http://www.stereophile.com/computeraudio//logitech_squeezebox_touch_network_music_player/
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Thanks for the mention of this review. My copy of the magazine was in
the mail along with Stereophile. Since I'd been looking forward to
Kal's Stereophile review, I hadn't even opened HT.
It's always nice to read another favorable review of a product that you
ts, so I guess there's an easy upgrade path.
I've been running essentially standalone, but now that I've established
a solid internet connection, I'm looking forward to trying out internet
radio options.
Ron
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or products far more expensive
than I'd ever buy. But there are also reviews of more modestly priced
gear, such as Kal's forthcoming review of the $299 Touch.
Over the course of time, there have been reviews of products that might
suit my needs. That's how I learned
d then the main data area. This has caused problems
for many people, including, I think, some Touch users.
If your HP does something similar, that may be the problem. If
possible test the Touch with another USB drive or two...
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about legal niceties, but I've now seen
evidence that I've paid for a "high-resolution" download that's NOT
what I thought I was buying.
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be determined...
BTW, what software have you used? Any suggestions for free / low cost
software to do this sort of analysis?
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R Johnson;559165 Wrote:
> ... As I've mentioned before, my Touch only has a weak wireless
> connection to a friend's router, but this configuration has not
> changed. Some days ago I reset the Touch by disconnecting the power.
> As expected, it took several tries to get
ood time for perhaps six weeks or more, but no
longer does so.
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eed to do to get
the clock reset.
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vices.com/showthread.php?t=77523 a
network connection is needed for certain functionality.
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MCG555;542399 Wrote:
> Thanks a lot- However, is the list still valid? Comments like: "Came
> formatted for NTFS, which is not writable at this point". ???
I have a 320 GB WD My Passport (not latest model) formatted NTFS and it
works nicely.
k / liner notes. The idea
of scanning & ripping the physical CD and SACD products seems rather
tacky.
HDtracks download prices: 16/44.1: $11.98, 24/88.2: $17.98
CSO Store prices: CD: $19.99, SACD $23.99 (if in stock)
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ave been
nice to see the SACD's catalog number on the scan of the insert.
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nk I can
reliably say that I CANNOT "easily discern the difference in quality of
audio" between the 24/88.2 download and the CD quality WAV file.
More later, especially after I've brought the Touch out to a friend
new image display.
My bottom line - the slideshow is only useful as a screen saver for
"stopped" or "off".
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ght the Touch for use at
my apartment where I have no computer or internet connection. I wanted
to simply play from a USB disk drive.
I would hope that future versions of the software make the Touch less
reliant on calling home (or whatever it's doing on t
Not cool. Hence, the Touch...
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ed CDs (and some 24/88.2
downloads) from a small portable USB disk; Have a nice small control
display; and Connect to my existing audio system.
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a computer, there appears to be no need for squeeze software on
the computer.
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Thanks, guys!
I'll prepare a folder of images at 480x272 (~16:9) and experiment a bit
more with the slideshow options.
Image displays would be a nice option, but not when/if they interrupt
the audio.
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decided to show were fairly large. Almost every
time it went to a new picture, there was about a half-second hiccup in
the audio. I did NOT find a way to easily STOP the slideshow other
than the OFF button on the remote.
So much for slideshows.
The current display makes no sense to me either. While a more
technically accurate display would be nice, I suspect that after a few
minutes, I'd ignore a better version too.
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I have now have a Touch,
the CSO Resound recording of the Bruckner 7th Symphony (conducted by
Haitink)
as a 16/44.1 CD and
as a 24/88.2 download from HDtracks.
I guess it's time to learn what difference(s) I can discern.
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read
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77523 about a missing
clock. After a power interruption, it seems that the Touch needs to
connect to the internet to get the clock going again. Otherwise in
"Off" or "Stopped"
I was able to "borrow" a neighbor's wireless internet connection.
Initially the connection was quite weak - 5 to 8 percent according to
the Touch. No luck with the clock. Later on, the signal strength had
improved to 15 percent, and the clock screen-savers were again
functional.
usch;536824 Wrote:
> From where should it get the current time? I don't think it has a
> built-in hardware clock with a backup battery, so it needs some time
> server on the network after you have pulled the mains plug.
That was pretty much the conclusion I had reached.
t;
cases. No joy. Sometime a "sample" clock would come up, but not
showing the correct time or date.
Very curious. User error or system/hardware design?
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andyg;532796 Wrote:
> Seeking in native AAC/ALAC files is supported in 7.6, but we don't have
> Touch builds for this yet.
I'll be looking forward to that capability too.
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owed "low stock", so I placed my
order. Perhaps half an hour later it was "out of stock". My order
status a few hours later is: "Your order is being reviewed and
processed."
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ave a few 24/88.2 tracks from the Chicago Symphony from HD Tracks.
While I'm waiting for a Touch in order to listen to then, I'd love to
"look at" the files.
But I don't have any software to do so.
Any suggestions for suitable software?
(Preferably fr
n with the new Squeezebox Touch in the near future.
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While a bit off topic, I was wondering if the display info does (or
could) include some of the 'extra' embedded information in files, such
as the 'Comments' or 'Composer' fields that iTunes provides...
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Alco;532983 Wrote:
> ...Currently I sit about 3,5 meters (>30 feet ?) from my SB Classic,
> when I liston to music.
3,5 meters ~= 11,5 feet (3.5 m ~= 11.5 ft)
The "10 foot" size might work for you.
I expect to use a Touch from about that distan
emulation storing
the backup software?
I have three older ones, and was/am worried about buying a new model
for use with the Touch.
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emulation storing
the backup software?
I have three older ones, and was/am worried about buying a new model
for use with the Touch.
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The latest newsletter from HD Tracks promotes some new 96/24 material
from the New York Philharmonic. Perhaps these recordings follow a
simpler path than the SACD conversion for the Chicago Symphony...
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HDtracks hires Puget Sound Studios (PSS) to convert from SACD
to PCM.
PSS takes a CSO Resound SACD and runs its DSD output through the EMM
gear to produce PCM.
If mortslim is correct, the EMM output is limited to 44.1 KHz (though
perhaps it is at 24 bits).
Then the PCM is upsampled to 88.2
A bit of searching the web found this article about the CSO's in-house
gear:
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Acquires Merging Pyramix DAW - Dec 10, 2007
1:28 PM
http://mixonline.com/news/headline/merging-pyramix-cso-121007/
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e professional equipment that
> converts the SACDs that HDtracks send to it. The studio converts the
> SACDs 1 bit, 2822.4 kHz to 24 bit/88.2 sample rate doing a digital to
> digital conversion.
>
Thanks very much for looking into this! Very curious indeed. I suspect
there&#x
o
compare it to the CD. This is one of the reasons I'm interested in the
Touch.
Phil, thanks for confirmation that the Touch does 24/88.2.
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s which will do 96KHz, but NOT
88.2KHz
Does the Touch support 24/88.2?
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hat it
will do what I hoped it would. Patience is a virtue, so I'm told.
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e new models come
with two partitions - the main one, plus a tiny one that "emulates" a CD
which is where their backup and other utility software is placed. Would
the Touch be able to deal with such a drive?
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very disappointed if it turns out that the Touch will not operate in
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another location) to a SB Touch, and then connect the
Touch to my AVR, using the Touch's screen to select the music.
Apart from needing a network connection for initial (or later) firmware
update, can/will the Touch operate that way? Or will I need to l
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