jazzfan
1000+ Head-Fier
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That would be perfect!! I'd really appreciate it.
I'll load a thumb drive up with some stuff, and it would be easy for others to drop their thumb drives in if they bring one along... cool!
Is the performance bad if you use an external hard drive instead of a thumb?
Thanks!
Playback performance, for me, has been good with either media. What takes time is building the music database of songs stored on the media. Large capacity external hard drives most likely will have a large number of files. Scanning and indexing a large music collection can be very time consuming, maybe 20-30 min. if you have 20k songs or more. So swapping large capacity drives with large music collections would not be practical if you wish to switch collections quickly. 50-100 songs on the other hand should take less than one minute.
One other reason hard drives may not be practical for the meet, is that the drive may not be compatible with the Touch. Although all USB 2.0 compatible drives should work, there are differences in current draw between various manufacturers. USB drives with high current demands may not work properly with the Touch.
An 8-32 GB (or higher) thumb drive would be a safer bet and would have more than enough capacity to hold a good size playlist. I have a 64GB thumb drive with 600+ songs (which I intend to bring) and it takes 2-3 minutes to wipe and rescan the entire collection.