rayman1701;617059 Wrote: > OK, I did some experimenting and found the following: > > 1) 96/24 ALAC on USB Stick connected directly to the Touch - Digital > Screech and then silence. > > In fact it overloaded my receiver and the protection kicked in and I > paniced and reset my Touch to factory in my attempts to get some/any > music to play. After I finally figured out what happened and it was > working correctly again, most of the listening was thru the headphone > out, so I wouldn't accidently blow my amp. > > 2) 16/44.1 ALAC on USB Stick connected directly to Touch - Plays > Perfectly! > > 3) 24/48 ALAC on USB Stick (some of my needledrops) direct to Touch - > Digital Static and nothing just like the 96/24 files. > > 4) ALL of the same files play perfectly thru either the Touch's digital > or analog or headphone jacks when using the full SBS on my Windows 7 > laptop server. > > So in conclusion, the Touch doesn't like anything above 16/44.1 with > ALAC at least with the firmware that I currently have (7.5.3-r31792 as > noted earlier). I had tried it when I first got the Touch and had a > couple of issues with it skipping every once in awhile with the 96/24 > tracks although at the time I thought it was because of having a 2tb > hard drive attached to the Touch with around 50,000 tracks as just > being too much for the Touch's internal server to handle. So I > installed on my desktop, then got a laptop to be primarily a server. > > So it is not an isolated problem that only you have. Which may either > be good or bad news, depending on how you look at it :) But it would > seem like your NAS is not transcoding the ALAC properly which is why > you may be having the issue. > > Hope all of my testing helps you in some way.
This is extremely helpful! Now I know the Touch DAC can't handle 44+ ALAC files natively. It looks like I need to focus on the transcoding options on the server. I'll play around with it tonight and post my results. Thanks so much. -- drooggie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drooggie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86182 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
