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Gear / Technical Help => Playback Forum => Topic started by: acidjack on May 11, 2010, 11:28:16 AM
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I have found the Squeezebox to be a ridiculously infuriating piece of gear, starting with the requirement of only having one "drive" and the fact that it has now lost the ability to find the designated drive. I didn't think my file system was that complicated, but it has really driven me nuts.
I'm set up as follows:
Macbook Pro
- iTunes folder (contains all of my MP3/AAC files)
external Iomega 1.5TB drive
- folders entitled "Masters" etc. Each folder contains subfolders containing WAVs, then within those, FLACs
I can't get the aliasing of the iTunes folder to work, either. In general, I find the thing to be a very limiting solution with pretty weak software, at least on the mac. It's also pretty expensive.
So anyway, when I next set up an audio system, I think I will go a different route. I've got friends who use this:
http://www.sonos.com/Default.aspx?rdr=true&LangType=1033
But again, these people have pretty simple music setups. Can this thing play FLACs and actually draw files from multiple drives?
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You can use multiple drives with a squeezebox. http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=126287.0
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^^ yes, I attempted that on my Mac. It did not seem to work. It also doesn't even recognize sub-folders within the drive I give it, e.g.
/Iomega HDD/***Masters/band name blah blah/band name blah blah (FLAC16) - it won't find the last folder.
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I have found the Squeezebox to be a ridiculously infuriating piece of gear, starting with the requirement of only having one "drive" and the fact that it has now lost the ability to find the designated drive. I didn't think my file system was that complicated, but it has really driven me nuts.
Been working *great* for me... for ten years... about 12 drives and many terabytes.
You're on a mac, so the symbolic links should be simple.
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So far I love the new Touch I picked up. A few bugs in the LMA app that I'm hoping I can work out in the settings, but hooking up wireless to my laptop has been a breeze.
I have yet however to take the time to link up my externals. I am going to try and set that up this weekend, so I will second that any help would be appreciated from Mac users who have done this.
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It was working fine until my first router died. Now it just refuses flat out to find my music library. I even tried changing the library folder to a different folder to see if that would help. Think maybe a factory reset is what I need to do to get it back on track.