Hi, Posting this as it may help others enjoy their Touch....
I have been lucky enough to get a Touch quickly last Wednesday here in NZ. It worked without any real problems with the exception of some glitches and stutters playing SOME hi-res FLAC files, not all as some were fine. This was sounding like a wireless bandwidth problem but I had a good signal strength (70-80%) and couldnt work it out. I tried a Belkin Wireless N router but this was slightly worse in terms of signal performance than my Linksys 802.11G device. I tried a copper Cat-5 cable and this worked fine! Somehow it must be a wireless issue I thought, but no... I stumbled across another post that pointed me in the direction of FLAC compression rates. Luckily I had a consistent song that stuttered and I re-encoded this at FLAC level 0 and it was perfect. I experimented briefly with level 5 (stuttered!), Level 3 (still no good), and then decided to just leave my Hi-Res FLACS at Level 0 and it sounds fine. With my Duet the transcoded Hi-Res songs were always playing correctly. I assume the problem with Hi-Res at full rate is at the Touch in terms of processing power to decode FLACs with higher compression rates. This of course doesnt explain why it works perfectly well with a hard-wired Ethernet connection??? If anyone can help explain what is going on it would be interesting. In any case I am completely happy with the Touch and am running it without issue on Squeeze Server 7.6. I hope this information is useful to others. -- glenw ------------------------------------------------------------------------ glenw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37423 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77080
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