John, I did several things tonight over the last 4 hours and I think I am a happy camper for the time being!
One of the issues I think I had was not fully understanding how the Touch is setup in the multiple scans, how the menus flow, especially when going thru My Music and selecting a different source. I copied 100GB + to a solid state drive, which is plugged into a external USB adapter. This is one of those very small 1.5 or 1.8 inch ssds you see in the more recent notebook computers. The adapter is a sata to usb device but I have to use a special voltage converter to get the micro sata drive to power up. While I was copying I downloaded the latest squeezeserver and ran it on one of my desktop pcs, once i got connected it worked and played flawlessly. I took this offline and rescanned the new SSD drive and it was fairly fast compared to a spinning 7200 rpm drive. I did not power it down like you recommended. I just selected it and voila it worked, the skipping and restarting did not show up, I searched while it was playing, did all kinds of menu selections etc. It was solid. I even hooked up the coax vs the analog outputs to do some comparion for the audio quality. I put the system into sleep mode many times and came back online and it did not loose the USB SSD etc.. When this things works its really very nice!! I have NO USB external drive noise, and its now fast. I am now at the point where I can start to enjoy the music and the other things the Touch provides, like the Pandora and apps stuff...which to me are a bonus. Thanks for all the help and I will report back if anything hiccups etc. All the best Alex -- adydula ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adydula's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78553 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
