650bmw Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 My local hard drive music is locking control4 unit, can't add zones, change zones, search music over. I have to unplug control4 HTC300 plug back in.Rhapsody works perfect but not my music. My music works with Itunes, windows media, so I know it's not my files. Any help?Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Is this a usb drive? There's no internal storage for music on an HC300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
650bmw Posted February 4, 2010 Author Share Posted February 4, 2010 yes, it is a terabyte USB drive. I have about 15,000 mp3, wav type music files on it and it keeps locking up the HC300 controller.Thanks for the advise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tumult Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 I believe I had a similar problem with my usb attached drive to the hc 300. I think I had about 14K songs (75GB of music perhaps) and it was pretty slow. If that number is the threshold, then consider weeding out music you don't listen to or upgrade controllers.tum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xc420 Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 I think usb drives are suppose to be formatted FAT32 for Control4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 It can be NTFS as long as you dont intend to add music or change information as Control can't write to NTFS but can FAT32. With that much music, you should move from a USB drive to a NAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgbrown Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 ^ As a matter of full disclosure, I have a question. Can it be ext3 ? Seeing as c4 runs an embedded linux platform this should work too, no ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henniae Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 ^ As a matter of full disclosure, I have a question. Can it be ext3 ? Seeing as c4 runs an embedded linux platform this should work too, no ?Nope. FAT32 if you you want C4 to have read/Write access and NTFS for just read access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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