Help to store hi-rez on external hard drive.

Dob thanks for that input. I think I have picked out 'HQPlayer' to deal with the hi-rez digital files and I do have a Sim Audio Moon 100 dac(great dac)so I still need to get computer side usb-coax adapter for 24-192 files. I think then I will be ready to go. Thank you all for your input and direction it really helped this 'green hat' to computer source music.

What I mean is the SB Touch doesn't have the horse power to manage a large library. If the library gets too big the searches and indexing just time out. I have a touch here and the plan was to just plug in a usb drive and use it as both a playback device and a server for the rest of my Squeezeboxes. I plugged in a 1TB drive with about 2600 CD's (26000 tracks) ripped to it and it could not index it. The built in server can only handle a couple of hundred CD's before the indexing and searches get too slow. Even scrolling through your collection becomes unbearably slow.

The idea behind the built in server was for people with smaller libraries (<100 cd's) to be able to stick them on a thumb drive and have a standalone server/player. Or for your friend to be able to bring over some tunes on a thumb drive for a listening session. If you check out the squeezebox forums, you'll find a lot of discussions on the capabilities of the built in server.

"I think I have picked out 'HQPlayer' to deal with the hi-rez digital files "

Hello,

What is HQPlayer?

I told you I am not the expert... I am searching myself for good and user-freindly and not too expensive Hi-rez server (I have APL HiFi DAC with hi-rez digital input to use with this server....this DAC is a part of NWO-S1 SACD/CD Player I need to play my SACDs)

Hello Dob
HQPlayer is a hi-rez management software. If you are looking just google 'HQPlayer'. Thanks.