Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] USB External Hard Drive Library for Touch

2012-03-21 Thread putente
Hi. I'm new around here and looking for some help and guidance... I also have an SBT, and I'm looking for the best way to have my FLAC library available on it. It's a fairly large collection of about 500GB, but there some albums I listen to more frequently. My plan was to have those albuns in a

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] USB External Hard Drive Library for Touch

2012-03-21 Thread rayman1701
putente;696727 Wrote: Hi. I'm new around here and looking for some help and guidance... I also have an SBT, and I'm looking for the best way to have my FLAC library available on it. It's a fairly large collection of about 500GB, but there some albums I listen to more frequently. My plan

[SlimDevices: Touch] USB External Hard Drive Library for Touch

2012-02-27 Thread Jonathan*
Hello All. First post here. Just bought a Touch, and need an External Hard Drive to connect to it via the USB port. Probably 2 TBs. Any recommendations based on experience? Low power and low noise please (ideally no fans, and no whirring/whistling drives - solid state?): It'll be running from AC

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] USB External Hard Drive Library for Touch

2012-02-27 Thread toby10
Touch and USB / SD Troubleshooting best practices for best performance USB or SD card devices - Check the formatting of the device, Touch supported formats: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3 - Touch can only see/use a single partition, format as a single partition, or use only the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] USB External Hard Drive Library for Touch

2012-02-27 Thread toby10
Also, might look into using a good quality and longer USB cable, then the USB HD can be located further away from your ears. -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] USB External Hard Drive Library for Touch

2012-02-27 Thread Jonathan*
Toby, thanks. That’s a lot to think about. Not being familiar with USB External HDs of any description, I assume Sleep Mode is normal for them, to save power and prolong life? Are there any particular makes/models whose sleep mode isn’t going to cause the Touch to rescan library every time they

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] USB External Hard Drive Library for Touch

2012-02-27 Thread dasmueller
Different people have different rates of success w particular drives. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/USB_Compatibility - this is probably woefully outdated. Manufacturers are constantly updating/changing their products.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] USB External Hard Drive Library for Touch

2012-02-27 Thread Jonathan*
Thanks D. I realize now that a simple answer is probably not going to be of much value. Yes, I was hoping to use the Touch as a standalone unit (for internet radio and stored music files), but if my mucking around with it over the past days had taught me anything, it is that the darned thing is

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] USB External Hard Drive Library for Touch

2012-02-27 Thread JohnSwenson
Jonathan*;692931 Wrote: Thanks D. I realize now that a simple answer is probably not going to be of much value. Yes, I was hoping to use the Touch as a standalone unit (for internet radio and stored music files), but if my mucking around with it over the past days had taught me anything, it

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] USB External Hard Drive Library for Touch

2012-02-27 Thread dasmueller
Jonathan*;692931 Wrote: Thanks D. I realize now that a simple answer is probably not going to be of much value. Yes, I was hoping to use the Touch as a standalone unit (for internet radio and stored music files), but if my mucking around with it over the past days had taught me anything, it