Sooloos Collections: Advanced Guide - Meridian Audio

Sooloos Collections: Advanced Guide
It is important not to allow the drives to becomee too full. The
system needs space to keep log files, for
housekeeping, transcoding and for storing playlists and saved focuses. We suggest that you consider adding
storage if the system gets over 80% use. 12
This can be monitored in
thee debug window shown
earlier.
Backup
It is essential to maintainn a good backup and it iss the user’s responsibility
y to maintainn its integrity. A valuable
collection, with many hours invested
in grooming deserves more than one backup and for at least one to be
kept offsite.
Sooloos provides Backup
and Restore functions in Control:PC. You can backup to computer drives, portable
USB or NAS drives.
Appendix 4: Using the iPhone, Touch and iPad Controls
The Sooloos
system can be controlled using the main Touch client, e.g. Control C 15. However it can also be
controlled using Control:PC/MAC and one if the three portable controllers.
This section illustrates by example how the portable control clients can be b used to access and control library
content. This section is particularly helpful if youu are thinking
through the finer points of preparing or
grooming a collection in anticipationn of using one of these devices.
12 The Sooloos system incorporates remote r monitoring and diagnosis. For this to work, it is necessary that
the system be able to see the internet and that it is registered with us. If you skip registration then we have
no means of
contacting you if we seee somethingg going wrong!
Periodically
disaster.
the system will report to
us the statee of the hard
drives and it is often possible to avert a
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