Hello again Mark. Using the USB Stick as I said splits the problem in half. Something that I feel needs done (its the engineer in me, hate working on a problem that is actually not the problem because nobody took the time to rule out half of what could be causing the problem). We need to eliminate your Touch as the problem. We can try a 1000 USB drives, but if you have a defective Touch we are wasting our time. If the USB Stick works, we can focus all our efforts on a drive issue.
BTW, it is my opinion that the Seagate FreeAgent is a poor choice for a Touch USB Drive. But that is my experience with them, others might have had better luck. I had to jump through all kinds of hoops to get my 2TB FreeAgent to even work marginally with the Touch. Yes it worked, but not just the simple create a Directory labeled Music, add files, attach to Touch as with the Toshiba or WD MyBooks I have. The Seagate's seem way to Green of a USB Drive to be attempting to use with the Touch IMO (spin down, going to sleep, disconnecting from host, etc). Three hours on which drive? It takes hardly any time to scan my 320 and 500GB Toshiba USB Drives. This is beginning to sound like a drive and file issue. As Phil said, I don't like two wireless hops either as it increases resends and possible re-buffering. Any means to Ethernet that PC to the Router? Also do you have an old PC not being used or really not needed anymore? You could put Vortexbox on it, use it headless, Ethernet it to the Router, move your music over to the Vortexbox, and you would be done. The USB drive would become your backup drive. I just put a 1.5TB drive in my better half's best friend's old extra PC, installed Vortexbox, and used the USB drive she was attempting to use as her backup drive. -- 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 Wood Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1, Vandersteen V2W Subwoofer 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: Squeezebox 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=81784 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
