Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-10-08 Thread Waldo Pepper
Kuben72 wrote: The Touch can only use 32 GB sticks. Mine happily works with a Sandisk 64G stick Waldo Pepper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39029 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-10-04 Thread arthurb
I have now been playing with the USB memory stick for a couple of days, and I still have a smile on my face; the performance is perfectly adequate, and there have been no glitches. I always switch the SBT unit off when I have finished (I live in a rural area of England), but the start-up time,

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-10-04 Thread JJZolx
arthurb wrote: JJZolx has said that SDXC (of 64GB+) cards can, although perhaps not always, be used in SDHC sockets, provided they are formatted as FAT32, and there is some stuff about this on Wiki. The big question is: has anyone here tried an SDXC card of 32GB on an SBT? Has anyone got

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-10-04 Thread arthurb
I have chosen to use a USB-stick for size and reliability, and also because it is completely silent (I actually have a powered WD drive of 320GB laying around, but it is used as back-up for my laptop); I just prefer it. In addition, I want to keep the classical stuff separate from non-classical,

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-10-04 Thread dasmueller
I used a Toshiba Canvio 1 TB external HDD directly attached to the USB port on the Touch for many months. No sound issues at all. It is probably larger than what you are looking for but some external non-powered HDDs do work. Just be careful about return policies if you run into issues. Each

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-10-02 Thread arthurb
I had my SBT delivered about three weeks ago but, apart from checking the contents of the box, I did not touch it until a couple of days ago. However, it has proved completely simple to set up, with the only issue being clearing the USB-stick before use (I did this after reading several threads

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-10-02 Thread JJZolx
arthurb wrote: I understand that SD cards are limited to 32GB, presumably because the Touch only has SDHC support (SDXC would be necessary for more). Some portable players with microSDHC ports that supposedly only support 32GB have been shown to work fine with current generation 64GB

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-09-02 Thread yall
I'm planning on using a very similar setup as you (but with 32gigs) so I would really appreciate if you could report back on what scan times to expect. yall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57064

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-08-29 Thread arthurb
Thanks for all of the replies; I am about to get an SBT to play with... arthurb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56956 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96141

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-08-29 Thread jmschnur
Let us know how it works out. Imay try the same configuration as you will try. J jmschnur's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8604 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-08-26 Thread arthurb
Thanks JohnSwenson, that was exactly the sort of information I was looking for; although I assume that your estimates were based on USB disks, I would not expect much worse with, say, a SanDisk Ultra 64GB stick, so it doesn't seem to be a problem. Do you, or does anyone else (garym?) know how

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-08-26 Thread garym
arthurb wrote: Thanks JohnSwenson, that was exactly the sort of information I was looking for; although I assume that your estimates were based on USB disks, I would not expect much worse with, say, a SanDisk Ultra 64GB stick, so it doesn't seem to be a problem. Do you, or does anyone

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-08-24 Thread Kuben72
arthurb wrote: As someone new to the subject of the SqueezeBox Touch I am reluctant to disagree with you, but, at least as I understand it, there is no limit to the size of USB disks that may be attached (other than the limitations of the formatting applied) and thus there should be no

[SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-08-23 Thread arthurb
Hello, I am thinking of getting a Touch and using it with a 64GB memory stick, at least initially, using FLAC encoded files exclusively. Performance with the local TinySB may be a problem though; can anyone advise me on what sort of start-up/scan times I might see with, say, 50GB-odd of music in

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-08-23 Thread Kuben72
The Touch can only use 32 GB sticks. Kuben72's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15308 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96141

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-08-23 Thread arthurb
Kuben72 wrote: The Touch can only use 32 GB sticks. As someone new to the subject of the SqueezeBox Touch I am reluctant to disagree with you, but, at least as I understand it, there is no limit to the size of USB disks that may be attached (other than the limitations of the formatting

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-08-23 Thread JohnSwenson
You have to remember that there are two types of scans, the initial full scan and then the quick scan which is invoked every boot after that. The first time you plug in a drive with a bunch of music it will not have a database on the stick, so it will do a full scan of all the files, it reads

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Performance expectations with a USB Stick and FLAC

2012-08-23 Thread garym
arthurb wrote: As someone new to the subject of the SqueezeBox Touch I am reluctant to disagree with you, but, at least as I understand it, there is no limit to the size of USB disks that may be attached (other than the limitations of the formatting applied) and thus there should be no