I gave the internal server with a USB drive a second try. My first effort ran for 14 or 15 hours without giving progress info or ever seeming to conclude. While it played music, it was not a satisfactory effort.
The external USB drive had about 46,000 songs in a variety of formats - Flac, MP3 and M4A. It is a duplicate of the music on the drive in my server. So, I just played music the old fashioned way (from the main server) for the past 10 days or so. Last night I brought home my off-premises backup drive (another duplicate of the music) to update it with the new material I've added recently. Afterward, I decided to give it a go using the Touch server. Everything seemed to be going well - I got a progress screen that gave a percentage and song count. It seemed like it was going to take about 4 1/2 hours to complete (which roughly matched the 5X multiple for how much longer the Touch server takes to scan compared to a separate server I've seen bandied about.) I went to bed last night at 80% complete and expected to see a nicely running machine this morning. Instead, I woke up to a frozen Touch (needed to hit the reboot button on the back) and an EXT3 drive that looks like it now needs to be fsck'd. There was no power outage or other problem reported by my UPS on the main computer last night. I routinely do a complete database wipe and rescan on the main Squeezeboxserver as I add music and artwork or move things around and have never had an issue. So I don't think there is anything goofy about the music folder. That's two scan failures on two different drives so far for the built-in Touch server. I've had one success with a 2GB flash drive but so far I'm not particularly impressed with the built-in server. Kind of a pity that after a four month release delay to fix these problems, people still seem to having issues. -- mlsstl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 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
