RichardLittlewood;537662 Wrote: > Hey, you're not alone.I've got a big library of 250 Gbytes, and had > numerous issues getting my new Squeezebox touch to work properly. > > My main problem was that when scanning for files, after about 4 hours > of scanning the HDD, some time after starting to scan album art, the > squeezebox stops with an error "music server stopped due to a problem". > I tried 4 different models of USB HDD (including a powered one) and I > bought a USB powered hub in case the unpowered USB HDDs couldn't supply > sufficient current without luck. > > Some issues I had along the way included: > 1) USB connection dropped repeatedly. > 2) When I navigate to a file and try to play it I get an error "Problem > can not open file for:" > 3) GUI freezes or is unuseably slow > 4) Server needs restarting > 5) Impossible to browse by tags because every time you enter a menu > such as "Artists" It takes forever to populate the entries. That would > be OK if it remembered them, but as soon as you exit that menu and > re-enter it does the same thing again. > 6) Squeezebox hangs saying it is scanning but it's not, the HDD isn't > even spinning. > > Eventually after several scans, wipe and rescans and factory resets, I > got it to scan everything although albumart is missing (which was > working at one point), I can't log into the squeezebox server (which > was working) and the device is permanently scanning for new files > (which I guess is making the GUI so slow).Wouldn't it make more sense > to be able to manually control the file scanning and choose the > directories. I have other stuff on my HDD I don't want scanned. > > I also tried to point the picture viewer at a picasa album embedded URL > and that failed too. > > So, I'm very unimpressed so far but I haven't given up yet.
Hi, I'm having the same problems as you... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77600 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77156 I still can't find a solution. Even the Logitech support couldn't give me a good answer to my problems. I think we can forget using the touch as a stand alone player for USB HD's containing big music collections -- perro6969 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ perro6969's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37592 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77230 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
