[studley]

I have an external HDD with lots of stored music in apple lossless that I currently play via an ibook and Squeezebox.  I'm thinking of getting an Olive but have a couple of questions which I can't find the definitive answer to on the Olive/Hifidelio websites:

1. Can you expand the capacity of the Olive by connecting an external HDD to it?

2. If so, if I connected my existing HDD with its ALAC music files, would the Olive be able to read/play them?
 

[ehart]

Answer to #1: Definitely yes, most USB-attached standalone disk drives will work.

Answer to #2: No, unless something has changed recently.  AIFF is supported (for playback).

[Berndt]

I have an exernal hd that I want to back up my olive hd from.
The olive instructions say you need an olive hd to back up to then you will get an additional icon on the main page.
wassup?

[Gordy]

Olive was originally going to market their own HD's for use with the units.  Plans changed and I believe it was the system 2.2 update that allowed use of other outboard HD's.

[Vinnie R.]

Hi Guys,

Gordy is correct... there was a software update months ago that allows one to connect an external USB Hard drive (formatted for FAT32) to read and write music to and from. 

NOTE: The Olive User's Manual is not up to date, so many of the new features from the latest software updates are not listed.  Olive needs to release an updated manual

Olive does not support Apple Lossless files (not sure if they are still looking into allowing for this.... a licensing issue), but WAV, FLAC, and various MP3s are compatible.

Best regards,

Vinnie