Skunk Wrote: > Quoting P Floding <P.Floding.2532ez1143051302 (AT) no-mx (DOT) > forums.slimdevices.com>: > > Last time I checked hard disks had moving parts! ;-D > > I'm guessing the wink means you realize the disk isn't part of the > timing chain. The spinning CD in a normal CD player is no more a part of the timing chain than is the spinning hard disk in a Slimserver. There is a solid-state buffer in a CD player, just like there is in a Squeezebox, and the rate at which a CD is read is determined by the needs of that asynchronous buffer, just as the rate at which the TCP/IP packets arrive at a Squeezebox is determined by the needs of its buffer. The only difference between the two is that the TCP/IP protocol used in a SB setup allows for the re-transmission of bad data, while in a CD player the disc can't be re-read to account for errors. But since the overwhelming majority of non-faulty CDs are read without error, this is of no practical significance.
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