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metalbob
2010-04-19, 04:45
I've successfully moved my entire 600GB and counting library off of my drive, reformatted it and connected it directly to the Touch and I'm getting nothing. SBS is running, it appears to be doing a light scan of some sort and then nothing. Nothing pops up in My Music. I ejected the drive and reconnected several times and "Wiped and Scanned" several times too.
I am currently using an iTunes file structure that works perfectly fine within iTunes. Am I doing something wrong here?
I've successfully moved my entire 600GB and counting library off of my drive, reformatted it and connected it directly to the Touch and I'm getting nothing.
It might be the way you typed that, but it reads like you have an freshly formatted drive attached to your touch with no files on it.
That amount of music might take a little while (like all day) to scan.
metalbob
2010-04-19, 06:13
HD has files on it as I fired up iTunes and added more files to it before attaching it to the Touch. The Touch is reading the drive, just not reading the files.
m1abrams
2010-04-19, 06:15
HD has files on it as I fired up iTunes and added more files to it before attaching it to the Touch. The Touch is reading the drive, just not reading the files.
What format are the files in? I am not sure but the touch builtin server I believe does not support ALAC.
metalbob
2010-04-19, 06:50
They are in ALAC format. Editing FLAC metadata is a nightmare on a Mac, which is why I went that route. This Touch thing - as cool as it is - doesn't seem to be working out too well for me here....
What format are the files in? I am not sure but the touch builtin server I believe does not support ALAC.
don't use ALAC but search some other threads, I think 7.5.1 may have added this support.
metalbob
2010-04-19, 07:22
Coming in 7.6 apparently. I guess I can hold off a bit longer and keep this thing connected to my router/computer for now. I'm not even done ripping my whole collection yet anyway.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=532796&postcount=3
Remember not to completely fill the USB drive with music. There must be room for Touch to write the scan data and other things to the USB drive.
metalbob
2010-04-19, 07:54
Remember not to completely fill the USB drive with music. There must be room for Touch to write the scan data and other things to the USB drive.
I think the current extra space of 1.4 TB will be adequate. Even after adding the rest of my collection, I think I'll be fine. I shot a little high on the capacity thinking I could use this off my router (without a computer attached) and maybe put some video on it too.
Which file system did you format the drive with (FAT32, NTFS, EXT3, etc)?
Which file system did you format the drive with (FAT32, NTFS, EXT3, etc)?
Probably not directed to me but my 320GB USB drive is FAT32, my 640GB USB drive is NTFS, and my 2TB USB drive is EXT3. All work fine with my Touch. 320 and 640 are USB powered, the 2TB is external powered from a wall wart.
Throw some simple MP3's on the drive, see if those are read properly by Touch server.
At least you will know if there is any HD incompatibility with your Touch, while waiting for ALAC support. ;)
Probably not directed to me but my 320GB USB drive is FAT32, my 640GB USB drive is NTFS, and my 2TB USB drive is EXT3. All work fine with my Touch. 320 and 640 are USB powered, the 2TB is external powered from a wall wart.
It was directed at the TS. He mentioned that he was using a Mac and I wasn't sure if HFS+ was supported by the Touch, if that's what he used to format the drive.
metalbob
2010-04-19, 09:42
Throw some simple MP3's on the drive, see if those are read properly by Touch server.
At least you will know if there is any HD incompatibility with your Touch, while waiting for ALAC support. ;)
My HD is formatted in FAT32. I spent an entire day moving files around and reformatting.
Now that this comes up, I actually tested it with a flash drive when I first set it up with ALAC files on it and it worked fine. And I think those were buried in a music folder.
Is it possible that the file structure is not reading correctly? It's set up exactly like it should be for iTunes.
Is your drive USB powered or is there a wallwart or similar?
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Is it possible that the file structure is not reading correctly? It's set up exactly like it should be for iTunes.
That's why I'm suggesting throwing a few MP3's into the iTunes folder. ;)
If Touch sees and plays those fine then it may just be the ALAC format that is the issue.
I presume your iTunes are not DRM'd / protected?
metalbob
2010-04-19, 11:06
That's why I'm suggesting throwing a few MP3's into the iTunes folder. ;)
If Touch sees and plays those fine then it may just be the ALAC format that is the issue.
I presume your iTunes are not DRM'd / protected?
It is all ALAC ripped from CDs. I can't test this until I get home tonight, but like I said, the ALAC files worked fine off of a flash drive in a random folder and the file structure on the HD worked fine with iTunes. The HD is actually a RAID box that is powered from the wall.
It is all ALAC ripped from CDs. I can't test this until I get home tonight, but like I said, the ALAC files worked fine off of a flash drive in a random folder and the file structure on the HD worked fine with iTunes. The HD is actually a RAID box that is powered from the wall.
so the HD is actually a standalone USB harddrive, not a NAS (like a readynas duo, etc.)
metalbob
2010-04-19, 12:09
so the HD is actually a standalone USB harddrive, not a NAS (like a readynas duo, etc.)
Yes.
It is all ALAC ripped from CDs. I can't test this until I get home tonight, but like I said, the ALAC files worked fine off of a flash drive in a random folder and the file structure on the HD worked fine with iTunes. The HD is actually a RAID box that is powered from the wall.
Correct, which is why I suspect the HD itself. ;)
Flash drive worked using same iTunes folders and codec.
HD does not (seem to) work using same (but more quantity) iTunes folders and codec.
So I'd throw a couple of MP3's into that same iTunes folder, rescan, see if they show up.
There are known USB incompatibilities with Touch, hopefully yours is not one of them.
Probably unlikely that this is your actual issue, but if it were me I'd like to eliminate the HD as a possible problem before digging into codecs. :)
Yes.
Can you detail the brand and model when you get a chance?
metalbob
2010-04-20, 16:18
Can you detail the brand and model when you get a chance?
It's a Guardian Maximus RAID box with two Western Digital 2TB Green drives in it. It is picking up the hard drive as under USB and Devices, it's listed as EFI. I can't tell if it's scanning or not as I believe it just says, "Switching to USB Drive" or something along those lines on the screen.
I did place a few MP3s in my iTunes library and nothing seems to have happened. One issue that I just discovered is that after transferring my library back to the reformatted drive, all new files I added were dumped into the main Media folder, whereas all the previous tracks are filed under Media>Music. This might be a setting issue in iTunes. Also, I have named the drive MEDIA, but it shows up as Squeezebox USB (or some variation of that) in the menu.
I just ejected the drive and tried to rescan. It is currently "Removing Existing Database" and the circle on the screen keeps spinning.
metalbob
2010-04-20, 17:50
I followed this fellow user's instructions and it is now doing a very long scan on my collection. I have 600GB of lossless files (20,000 songs) on there and I'll be adding a lot more, so this will probably take some time.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=537030&postcount=14
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