Just my opinion, but if already in WAV, convert to FLAC. If ripping for the first time (or re-ripping) rip to FLAC at -5. Touch handles FLAC as native.
And as for large HHD, it is my opinion that external powered drives are best. The issues I have seen with external drives have been the power saving features of those drives and how that affects the expected performance of the Touch as in if the drive goes to sleep or likes to spin down every couple of minutes. My large Seagate USB was giving me fits until I disabled all the power saving/sleep crap. If you run into issues, call or email Tech Support or tell us what is happening and the Forum Members will try to troubleshoot it. It was straight forward for me, but I was in the Beta and went through all the growing pains from the beginning when one had to SSH into the Touch to run lines of code to get it to mount the drive, scan the drive, start TinySC. Those days are now long gone. Sometimes I wish everybody could have used it back then to see really how far its come and all the work, ease, and features the guys have added now. -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: Second Boom Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79896 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
