I have owned my Squeezebox Touch for less than a week and cannot begin to describe my frustration and disappointment with the product. I have had nothing but problems with it since day one.
I am running it attached to a Buffalo Ministation 500GB USB-powered HDD. When first attaching it to the Touch, it took about 2 hours to locate and index all of my 22,000-odd tracks, around 80GB worth of music. The first issue I had was that the unit was splitting single albums into multiple albums, which although annoying and time-consuming to solve, was easy enough to fix using MP3Tag. Although it resulted in another 2 hours of downtime while it re-scanned the USB to index the files all over again. Things were working well enough though, I had listened to a few albums and was enjoying the unit, I found the responsiveness great, and the integration with the official SB Android app on my Desire HD worked flawlessly... then this morning, when attaching the USB drive (I disconnect when not using to save wear on the disk), it took around 5 minutes to start SBS, played one file, after spending about 10 minutes loading the album, and then lost connection to the USB. "Local music service has encountered a problem" or words to that effect, was the error message. No indication of what the problem was, so I'm trying to fix it blindfolded. It has lost connection on a number of occasions throughout the week - why does this happen when it is connected to a local USB drive?! This has now occurred four or five times today, trying to play the same album. The next MAJOR issue is that the server has just reset itself and begins "discovering files"... why has it lost all of the indexed files?! I am now facing another 2 hours of downtime while I wait for the unit to rediscover all of the music, before I can begin thinking about how to fix it. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can go about making the device work as intended? If I have left out any pertinent info I am happy to provide. Other problems I have had... minor issues... which I wouldn't mind some guidance with... 1. Is there any way to group albums by Album Artist rather than Artist? For example, I would like albums by "Method Man & Redman" to be grouped under the album artist "Method Man" rather than as two separate artists. 2. The Android app doesn't seem to be reading from the internal SBS - I have added a few new albums which show up on the touch device, but not on the mobile app - any ideas? Although to be honest, I'd happily take suggestions for an alternative app. Sorry for the essay and thanks in advance. -- morocco1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ morocco1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=46868 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87857 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
