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Beatles USB via Squeezebox Touch

I just got my copy of the Beatles Boxed Set on USB, and have been unable to play it when plugged directly into the back of the Touch. I followed the instructions on the Touch website for playing USBs, but so far all I can get to play is the mp3 version of Hard Day's Night. It does play on my Imac, so the files seem to be intact.

After plugging the USB into the Touch, I click on the "start sqbox server," which runs for awhile and hen I go to the USB and click on that. It gives flac and mp3 options, and when I click on flac, it says something like"no files available>" I can the same message with mp3 for all albums but Hard Day's. I've tried going to the SQBox server on my Imac and asking it to rescan, same thing. Help???
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mapman
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Hmm, I have no clue but I hope someone can help.

Sounds like we've reached the day where a computer science degree may be required just to be able to play the music we buy in the store.

Hey Pettyofficer, where are you?

Maybe PO is right?

Personally, music sold on USB is too new and risky a thing to dive into yet at this point. You have to be brave to be an early adapter.

At least if you buy the CDs and rip to computer file yourself using your favorite tool you have many format options to chose or try to get your files to play.

Apparently with the Beatles USB boxset, your choice is FLAC, which is not a well established standard yet I believe or .mp3 which is a lesser format in regards to sound quality, though easier to work with.
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Probably a good idea to copy the files to disk and play from there, similar to ripping a CD, but should be much faster than ripping.

That will save wear and tear on the source usb device. Better to store that away in a safe place.
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mapman
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I use lossless .wav. The sound quality is top notch. I would not worry about that. That's assuming the conversion software works properly as one would expect.

The location of the source music files on the computer is also not a factor in sound quality, The only issue occurs if the file can not be streamed fast enough to play without delays. That should not be a problem on most newer home computers and wireless G or better home networks that are operating normally and not doing too many other things concurrently.

The reason that the location of the computer files does not affect the sound quality is that these are source data files. THE DAC process onboard the Squeezebox is where the bits are input into the DAC processes and sound is created.

This is directly analogous to what occurs with my Roku Soundbridge and music server in my system, so I have highest confidence that the results will be very good.

One way to improve it further if needed is to use a very high quality outboard DAC device with the Squeezebox Touch ratrher than the Squeezebox's internal DAC, which I have read is not bad to start with.
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