AndrewS: I understand your comment about building the TOC after a power (mains) off. However, were you / are you using Audiostation (the music app that came with it)? I have enabled the 'build Audiotron TOC' option in it (in Audiostation: Options --> Preferences --> Audio Tron: click the radio button that says "Automatically generate table of COntents files for Audiotron on exit").

If this is selected, the TOC will build (and refresh) every time you quit the Audiostation application...or...you can hit 'cancel' if you don;t want it to refresh / build the TOC upon exit.

If you do this, when the audiotron boots from a mains power off, it finds files in blocks of 200 rather than in blocks of 10. I have around 9,500 wav files or so and because Audiostation creates the TOC that the Audiotrons can see, it references them rather than scronging the entire indicated shares.

This also works reallyw ell if you update files from the web browser interface (i.e. going to the appropriate IP) - it uses the TOC (generated by Audiostation) to look for new files, and is a consequence is very fast.

All in all, I would say that by using the TOC option (to generate from Audiostation), the audiotrons take about 1 minute (or less) to find all 9,500+ songs when waking up from a hard boot.

Cool stuff guys...thanks for the posts.

Mark