Playing FLAC on Squeezebox from External HD

[BoulderMike]

I apologize if this has been asked before. I have had my Squeezebox for a month and keep going back and forth on the best way to optimize sound quality and the ability to have songs tagged correctly. I first tried FLAC but couldn't get iTunes to recognize FLAC as I understand it isn't supported. I tried to just get the Squeezebox to recognize the FLAC files from my External IOMEGA HD but the rescan doesn't do anything. I understand that Slimserver doesn't support building a Squeezebox library directly from an external HD, rather you have to use something like iTunes. I tried WAV but the tags were dropped and my device basically has most music under "No Artist". I am now using Apple Lossless m4a files. My preference would be to find a way to have Slimserver recognize the FLAC files directly from my external HD without iTunes in the middle.

Any suggestions?

[Mark Lanctot]

To use an external HDD, all you have to do is point your SlimServer to it. If it's not network-attached you should just be able to use regular Windows notation.

If it's network-attached you need to use UNC paths like:

\\SERVER\share

[BoulderMike]

Mark,
My external HD is connected to the Squeezebox through a wireless network. So, I need to use the UNC path. Would this be correct:

Server Name: Bubba
Hard Drive Name: IOMEGA_HD
Directory: Converted Music

UNC Path = \\Bubba\IOMEGA_HD\Converted Music

My external HD is also Drive F: on my laptop

Thanks for your help. I would really like to get FLAC working and bypass iTunes.

[aubuti]

...I understand that Slimserver doesn't support building a Squeezebox library directly from an external HD, rather you have to use something like iTunes. ... My preference would be to find a way to have Slimserver recognize the FLAC files directly from my external HD without iTunes in the middle.

And just to expand a bit on Mark's good advice and possibly clear up a misperception, you definitely do _not_ need iTunes or other software between slimserver and your files. And if you want to use FLAC (a good choice with slimserver) you can't use iTunes, because it doesn't support it.

[ceejay]

See also

http://faq.slimdevices.com/index.php...=99&artlang=en

HTH
Ceejay