No external server

[jmschnur]

Can I attach 500 gig drive full of flac music to the usb port and listen with no Internet connection? If I do have an Internet connection can I use the touch with the music disk and no slim server just the disk for music and the internet for radio etc.

J

[toby10]

Can I attach 500 gig drive full of flac music to the usb port and listen with no Internet connection? If I do have an Internet connection can I use the touch with the music disk and no slim server just the disk for music and the internet for radio etc.

J

Yes and Yes.

But it is best to initially connect Touch to the internet so you get the latest firmware update the easiest way.
Also, you will be running a server regardless. When using the USB you will simply be using the Touch's inbuilt (albeit limited) server.

[garym]

Yes and Yes.

But it is best to initially connect Touch to the internet so you get the latest firmware update the easiest way.
Also, you will be running a server regardless. When using the USB you will simply be using the Touch's inbuilt (albeit limited) server.

and here's some best practices from a prior Toby10 post that are useful:

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...l=1#post692825

[jmschnur]

Thanks this was very useful


J

[garym]

Thanks this was very useful


J

i'll point out (as I'm accused of doing too often by some who were struggling with tinyLMS in the ToUCH and assume I'm denying that they have problems ;-) that my brother uses a TOUCH with an older USB harrdrive (at least 4 years old, can't recall the brand, could be a WD). He has about 50,000 mp3 and m4a files (no FLAC) and it works fine for him. He does have an internet connection too, so he gets internet radio, pandora, etc. He leaves the USB drive permanently attached (which is good, as this means he doesn't have to deal with rescanning when reattached). His drive is old enough not to have all the new fancy things (like separate partititions that act as CD drives, etc. etc.). This is probably a good thing (for his use at least). I'm thinking he's been setup this way for about two years. He knows nothing about how all this stuff works. I walked him through the intital setup and he's mostly ignored ever since other than pressing OK on the screen to accept firmware updates.....

[Mnyb]

Yeas if I where to go with this aproach I would just use a powered USB to SATA adapter and just any hard drive left over .
Or buying a an powered USB enclosure for a drive .

I do not fully understand why manufacturer of USB drive's are spamming thier products in so many ways with virtual cd drives etc ? That's what I think it is ,spam ? They want a tray icon and some brand labeled software to keep the user oblivious to the fact that he could be using any such drive , providers of nameless commodities desperately want's brand recognition .
But it is not helping the end user it makes the product harder to use ?

I just groan every time I have to use some USB stick on a pc and yet another crap software want's to install usually a manager of some kind , I like it better on Linux or Mac where it just mounts and sit there ready to be used.

Sometimes a no name product is better here, so I usually pick USB sticks or drive from the no name bin , because I know if get one of the big brands I have to reformat it and sometimes do away with some hidden partition that spams the product even more .

Hint here Linux is a bliss , just run gparted and it's done in a jiffy