sivakrdy said:
The problem was that the Seagate backup plus Hard disk by default has NTFS file system. It seems the 610 does not understand that. I formatted the disk to fat file system and then the 610 is happy to accept it.
But i must say marantz has a long distance to go interms of developing quality software for their quality hardware.
A few important things missing-
1. Ability to create dynamic playlists on the fly.
2. Is there a search function to search for a given song in the hard disk? Atleasst the one on the remote app is not doing the job for sure.
3. Album art.
4. Can one seek into song while playing from harddisk? It is supported when playing from CD.
To be honest, my impression was that the product is positioned as a network player. The USB is more of a secondary thing to enable playback from USB memory and Apple devices, but it just happens that it can also work with larger hard drives with the right formatting.
Maybe I'm just an A-hole, but I see so many threads with people whining that these products which have so much flexibility in their use can't be used in exactly the way one one person wants/isn't specced to the desires of one person or a very small market segment.
Marantz, like many other companies, is probably only just getting into creating apps for the control of their devides, and they are still probably more of an afterthought so perhaps they have less time, effort, and expertise appropriated to them than is necessary for software that is up to the levels of the hardware. I'd get annoyed with expensive Linn and Naim stuff, but I don't know how high my epectations would be for a budget all in one like the 610.