Under the umbrella of general information.... I posted this on the discless cirlce but it occured to me this may be a better venue as I imagine a number of the MWI Transporter fan club may have incountered similar issues getting up to speed and using all the SqueezeCenter capabilities.
Just providing a work in progress update on my Squeezecenter slow interface issues. I plugged in the 2GB sticks of ram and experienced a reasonable increase in speed as noted earlier.
I'm still a SC rookie and wanted to move on to getting my album folders organized, adding album art work, pandora, radio stations etc. Another issue I've had, not mentioned previously, is that only a small fraction of my music files can be accessed directly from my Transporter. IE - if it use my SC running on the desktop pc, I can see and select all 900+ music folders. When in the listening room and operating from the TP, I can only see and select roughly 60 music folders.
I ended up calling slimdevices/logictech tech support to address some of these tasks and ended up learning the source of my slow processing & related issues is due to using WAV files and thier lack of information tags. I currently have ~960 albums loaded. The tech said that the lack of music file tags with the wav. files is at the center of my frustrating issues. Recommended solution was converting to FLAC files.
So, next task is to pursue converting my dedicated hard drive of wav files into FLAC files with tags. Agghhh, another learning curve.
All my wav files were backed up to my hard drive via EAC. I used the uncompressed format with the EAC associated database for album names. I do keep an outboard backup drive that I plan to keep in wav format and just get the internal music drive migrated in to the FLAC format.
Any recommendations out there for making the FLAC file conversion? Is there a means to automatically get the necessary file tags along with this process (I pray so...).
I browsed the SlimDevices forum a while back, but didn't really see an applicable thread. Is there a concensus here as to going all FLAC files? Is there a way around getting the neccessary tags for wav. files short of making the change to FLAC? My main concern over going FLAC is from what I've read previously, not everyone is convinced the FLAC files are not compromising sonics.
Thanks,
Kenreau