Re: Argosy HD-363N

On Sunday, February 6, 2005, 9:45:43 AM, Paul Webster wrote:

> What happens if you edit the TOC (notepad is fine) and add some entries to
> point to files that Audioton is not otherwise seeing?
> Tne syntax is pretty easy - and certainly made much easier by
> copying/editing existing entries.

> If you cycle the Audiotron, to pick up the now .toc file, and it then can
> reach the file it imples that the issue is perhaps loading related (issuing
> requests to the box to scan lots of directories) rather then the
> files/diretories being unaccessible to the Audiotron.

Wow -- what a great suggestion!  I just tried it -- the directory tree
on my desktop and NAS are identical, so I just copied my entire .toc
file over -- and the AT can now see all of my music files.  That may
make the whole thing usable for me after all, even without figuring
out what the underlying problem is.

And it tends to support Brad Wooddell's suggestion that my problem is
caused by the Argosy's apparent limits on the number of files and
directories that can be open at a time.  Maybe the AT and TOCMaker
aren't closing things when they're done with them, or at least not
doing something the Argosy recognizes as closing them.

I'm going to do some more experimentation, but I may be up and running
here.  If so, I'm still going to need to figure out a way to
synchronize the Argosy database with the master copy on my desktop
computer -- I had been using a program that synchronized things based
on file timestamps, but since the Argosy overwrites the timestamps
when you copy a file to it I'm going to need another solution.  Still,
things are perhaps looking up now!

   -- Robin