How to load a Live Bruce Springsteen FLAC to HDX HDD

Posted by: crackie on 14 February 2014

Hi , this one has me stumped .

Just purchased a live FLAC concert of Bruce Springsteen live in Perth (great recording BTW) , purchased in FLAC from his Offical Store (via the Live Nation site & a very poorly set up site it is to, with next to no information ! )

I have loaded this onto a USB drive & it plays fine via the HDX front USB slot. It even appears on my ipad n-SERVE APP. and playback is managed this way perfectly. Can this can now be stored on the HDX HDD to make playback even easier, or is USB FLAC to HDX storage not possible. Or does it have some sort of copy protection that I cannot find any info. on yet ?

Cheers,

Peter

Posted on: 14 February 2014 by garyi

Hi. With the greatest of respect read the manual! the question you are asking is fundamentally what the hdx is about.

in terms of your stumpedness the first question to ask is which version of hdx? If its the 2 tb model then find it on the network and copy to the download folder.

if its not you need to store it on a computer or nas broadcasting smb on the network.

Posted on: 15 February 2014 by crackie

Cheers Garyi.

I don't normaly download anything - ever. And the manual is confusing as hell - we are all not computer literate. My HDX is the 2TB version, I run MAC OS always, you mean copy to download folder via desktop client Windows version ?

I'll email naim direct, thanks........

Posted on: 15 February 2014 by blythe

As a Mac user, plug your USB stick containing the FLAC music files into your Mac:

Then, using "finder" on your Mac, copy from the USB the folder containing the files, to your "downloads" folder on your HDX. (The HDX should appear on your Mac as a "shared" drive).

If you already have music by the same artist in the "Download" folder on your HDX, add the album to the artist's folder. Otherwise, add the artists folder to the downloads folder.

The music should then be directly accessible from the HDX without the need to plug in the USB stick into the front panel :-)

I have also the HDD version of the HDX, so it should be the same as your one.

Regards, Martin.

Posted on: 15 February 2014 by crackie

OK, I'll give it a go. Here is me trying to load via the USB slot a real "doh" moment on my behalf.

Cheers Martin

Posted on: 15 February 2014 by garyi

if the hdx does not show in the finder (on the left hand side of any open window) then find out its IP on the front panel and then in finder click on go>connect to server

Here type in SMB://YOURIP

Where YOURIP is the set of numbers you got from the HDX.

Posted on: 15 February 2014 by crackie

Thank's so much Martin & Garyi. All sorted and downloaded .

I might buy his Melbourne concert from last night (now I know how to) , the set list looks awesome

Posted on: 15 February 2014 by Bart

Crackie, now that you've added it once . . .

If it ever stops showing up in Finder, just go back to the Go > Connect to Server menu. It'll probably be 'remembered' there and you can just click 'Connect' without re-typing the IP address.

Enjoy!

Posted on: 16 February 2014 by garyi

When its mounted, right click it and great an alias, leave this on the desktop and double click it next time you need it. Or you can put it in the dock.

Posted on: 16 February 2014 by blythe

Pleased to hear you managed it!

I do know exactly what you mean about trying to upload directly from the USB.... Been there, done that.....