chopinhauer wrote: > Going back to the original question, I too would like to plug an > external HD with over 1TB of music into the usb port of the Touch. > > My situation is that I am moving from running all my music from a a > large HDD on my PC running LMS to what? That's the question. The PC is > going and all that remains is a Macbook air and possibly an iMac with a > smallish HDD (don't ask why?). Can I now connect an external HDD > directly to the Touch and run all the music and LMS from the touch > thereby totally by-passing the Mac?
"Yes" but the experience is not what you are used to , it has limitations like no web-UI no plugins and more . Touch is really underpowered to run the server properly. So I recommend you connect the external HD to the iMac and have proper LMS experience . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85993 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
