Argosy HD-363N -- UPDATE
"Abraham, Howard E." <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:42:11 -0600
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I must admit that my early gushing enthusiasm for this device had me embarrassed to show my face on this list until now. My Argosy HD-363N is working with the AudioTron. No, the AT cannot generate its own TOC from the Argosy. However, I have written my own TOC maker that is Argosy-tolerant. I believe the problem is that a file scan opens a handle on the Argosy. There are a limited number of handles available and the garbage collector isn't fast enough to release system resources when they are no longer needed. Thus, my program just waits for the garbage collector to catch up. It's slow, but it works for about 99.9% of the files on my drive. (Out of 1400+ files it failed to process one or two of them. I haven't tracked down the cause yet.) Once my TOC maker moves to a server-based network share the performance increases dramatically. I don't know how many people bought the Argosy, and of those I don't know how many have Windows boxes laying around. However, if anyone wants to play with my barely-tested TOC maker I will make it available. It's written in C#, and thus requires the .NET framework to be installed. --Howard