First, I have to say that I have a SB3, which has been working extremely well for the last years. It's certainly the best audio kit I have ever bought, and I had bought a lot.
So I have been eagerly waiting for the Touch, especially because of the embedded server and 24/94 capability. Unfortunately, I have to say I'm having an horrible experience: - I have an external drive with 120GB of music (with its own power supply). The embedded server fails, I would say, 4 out of 5 times it tries to scan the drive. Most of the times it blocks for no obvious reason. No error messages, nothing. - As others have already said, 24/96 does not work with the embedded server (I converted all my FLACs to 0 compression, but they still do not work). 24/44 and 24/48 have no problems. - I then tried using a 8GB SD card. This one works ok. The problem is that I cannot switch between the SD and the USB without stopping and re-lauching the server. - By the way, the same problem seems to occur if I try to switch from the SD to the wireless network. Most of the times I have to remove the card and restart the server. - In the end I gave up on using the embedded server, the main reason that lead me to buy the Touch. - I also tried using squeezebox.com. After several attempts (for some unknown reason the squeezebox server seems to loose the password), I could use it. The problem, again, was switching back to the squeezebox server. The Touch insists on connecting to squeezebox.com! The only workaround I found was resetting the squeezebox server and resetting the Touch while disconnecting the network cable linking the router to the internet. - And finally, iPeng is also not working, apparently not because of iPeng but because of some incompatibility between the squeezebox server, Touch and squeezebox.com (squeezebox.com says the Touch is disconnected). So, my summary: Be careful. If you really really want to buy the Touch (which I cannot recommend at this stage), you better keep streaming from your computer and forget about any fancy functionality. Someone at Logitech has made a terrible mistake. They should have marketed the Touch as a color PS4 and block the USB and SD interfaces until the software is ready. -- Paa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37973 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78211 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
