Phil Leigh;575044 Wrote: > The scan should not take anything like 8 hours - more like 40-60 mins on > your hardware. That's problem number one. Can I just check the USB drive > is connected to the PC, yes? (not directly to the Touch!). > > > As for sound quality - you should aim to have the Touch volume quite > high (75-100). There are no software settings that really change the > sound - at least, the defaults should provide you with very good sound > quality. Certainly good enough to see off most CD players...
aefrey;575064 Wrote: > Yes, the USB drive is connected directly to the PC. Also the Touch > volume is set at 100 (the maximum). > > As a test, I also set the Server Control Panel to scan music files > stored on another external drive that I own (a 400GB Maxtor drive which > I used to back up my PC files). Again it took several hours to complete > the scan. This drive has back-up copies of mp3 files which are stored > on my PC. I was told by a friend that the scan of music files should > not take that long, so I am puzzled as to why I have to wait so long > for the scanning process to complete? I have a very large music library (99.9% flac with covers) stored an external USB hard drive and a complete clear and rescan of my music library, including scanning of the covers takes well over 8 hours. The scan takes more in the neighborhood of 10 to 11 hours with the art work scan taking 5 of those hours. So I fully understand why aefrey's scan is taking 8 hours and I can reassure him (I'm guessing that aefrey is male) that there's nothing wrong with the hardware or software. Phil please understand that I don't mean to start a flame war but I've always found the Squeezebox server scans to be painfully slow, although the scan times have improved with each new version of the software and each upgrade to my hardware. And all my initial music library scans have taken 8 hours or more once I had over 2,000 CDs ripped and stored as flac files. Now the poor sound quality does have me puzzled since the analog output of the Touch is quite good and on par with CD players costing several time the Touch list price. May I suggest that you try using the Touch's digital output into an external DAC and see if the sound improves. If it does then I would say the Touch's DAC or analog circuity is at fault. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81823 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
