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Originally Posted by jdandy
Jim.......How do you get high-res downloads to the Olive 4 hard drive? Do you put the .wav files directly on the Olive drive? Can you give me a quick course in how to do that?
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Dan sure. I can tell you how I do it on an Apple laptop and it should be similar on a Windows PC. First both my laptop and the Olive 4HD are on my wireless network.
I go to a site such as HDTracks and select the file I want to purchase. HDtracks has a download manger it adds to you computer to assist in bringing the music tracks, the cover art and liner notes to your computer. After starting the process the files are placed into a folder called HDtracks on your computer.
On a Apple PC you then have to "mount" the Olive using a SMB command found in the Finder-Go-Connect To Server dialog box (smb://10.X.X.X) with the Olive's IP address. I am not sure which command this is on a Windows PC put it is probably in the Olives User Manual (will check later) or a quick call to Olive support will get you the info.
I then open two Finder windows on my laptop. One window is the HDtracks Folder where the files are stored, the second is the Olive's import folder that is now mounted and shared. All I do is highlight all of the files in the HDtracks window and drag and drop them onto the Import file on the Mounted Olive unit. That is it.
The files are now on your Olive and a back-up remains on your PC. If you do not want the files to take up space on your PC just copy this files to a CD or DVD in case you ever need them in the future.
Let me know if I was not clear.
Jim