I've been using the Touch for a week and am impressed by the sound (digital, not tried analogue). However, I'm wary of recommending it to others at present for various reasons.
1. Where's the manual? The quick start guide gets you going (though I only read it after setting it up), but it is very low on information for a device that needs a fair bit of tweaking. 2. The built in server stops regularly. 3. It says it's scanning files when sometimes it's not (hard drive silent). 4. It'll crash if you scroll through the database quickly whilst playing. 5. Sometimes repeats the first part of a track continually for no apparent reason on tracks that have played ok before and do again later. 6. Sometimes 96/24 flac files stutter with buffering message appearing. 7. Sometimes a wipe & rescan works, sometimes it doesn't & just hangs. 8. The Touch claims the username & password is wrong sometimes. Since there doesn't seem any way to change this without a reset to default this is a bit baffling. This is with an almost new mains powered 1.5TB Samsung USB drive that has been rock solid in use with an NSLU2 with approx. 18000 tracks, mostly flac. The files were copied over from another drive, so no fragmentation issues likely. As far as I can tell there is no problem with the USB drive: if you leave it a while, you can hear it come out of standby when you use the Touch. I've got so frustrated by the flakiness & constant worry that something will crash it that I've set up an Eee PC running Ubuntu as server to use in the meantime. I'm not overjoyed as one of the things that made me go for the Touch was the ability to run without a separate server: I'll only ever have one further client in future which will either be a Squeezebox or something reading the SAMBA share. Overall I'm reasonably happy, but disappointed with the internal server. I hope the next firmware release solves these issues! As someone who has used various flavours of Linux on and off for many years I'm used to a bit of mucking around, but can imagine the horror the average customer would feel if they'd just bought one. -- floater ------------------------------------------------------------------------ floater's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38048 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78386 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
