Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SBT doesn't support USB MP3?

2015-03-08 Thread Mnyb
My 0,02$ just drop the whole onboard server capacity and accept that. Touch is a network player for a proper LMS server . The hardware will never show the best side of the server , no plugins no web-UI no transcoding . And yes it has to be a server . The player is the same as always , the diferen

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SBT doesn't support USB MP3?

2015-03-08 Thread toby10
Mardler wrote: > ... I'd test it to destruction before public release. The developers wanted to do just that. But someone higher up cut beta testing short, with little notice, and rushed it to market. Likely someone who needed a boost in their departments quarterly numbers. Not too much l

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SBT doesn't support USB MP3?

2015-03-08 Thread Mardler
bpa wrote: > Hindsight is an exact science. Indeed. Just read the article in the link. Two thoughts:- What a kerfuffle! Sheer madness to merely get USB to work. Author also says up to an hour to ready 7k tracks to play: insane. ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SBT doesn't support USB MP3?

2015-03-08 Thread bpa
Mardler wrote: > Whoever designed the software hadn't a clue: it is wholly unreasonable > to expect users to encounter nearly an hour delay before playing music > on a stick! Or maybe they thought it was reasonable? I can see the flaw: > trying to do too much for the on board hardware so caching

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SBT doesn't support USB MP3?

2015-03-08 Thread Mardler
garym wrote: > This might help. In particular the disk partitions issue. Also, there is > "tiny LMS" that is running on the touch. This is different from full LMS > running on PC. Tiny LMS is what allows you to play the files on the usb. > > > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?82070-

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SBT doesn't support USB MP3?

2015-03-07 Thread garym
This might help. In particular the disk partitions issue. Also, there is "tiny LMS" that is running on the touch. This is different from full LMS running on PC. Tiny LMS is what allows you to play the files on the usb. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?82070-Touch-with-USB-drive-maste

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SBT doesn't support USB MP3?

2015-03-07 Thread Mardler
Apesbrain wrote: > Of course it does. Insert USB and switch server to Touch internal > server. May take a minute to index and you're good to go. Nope. Already tried that with no result. However I'll try again and give it more than the 20 minutes I did. My suspicion is that the unit only recogni

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SBT doesn't support USB MP3?

2015-03-07 Thread Apesbrain
Of course it does. Insert USB and switch server to Touch internal server. May take a minute to index and your good to go. Apesbrain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=738 View this thread: http://for

[SlimDevices: Touch] SBT doesn't support USB MP3?

2015-03-07 Thread Mardler
What is the point of having a USB slot that only reads images on the stick on a device that is a music streamer? There is no way to access MP3 files on a USB drive - why? Ok, there's an image folder on the stick but that is absolutely NO excuse. Mad ---