gdg;164785 Wrote: > Can anyone tell me whether running a lot of applications while streaming > music can degrade the sound quality? I often use Photo Shop while > playing music and listening with the reference quality AKG K701s. This > definitely seems to slow down the computer which uses an Athalon 64 and > half a gig of ram (I know that's not much). Surely there must be audio > consequences for this misbehaviour?
No - at least, not in the way I think you're asking. Audio playback takes place on the Squeezebox/Transporter itself. The computer is just sending data to it, like copying a file. The only way to have a problem is if the computer can't keep up sending enough data, in which case the player will stop until it can get more data. This is called a "buffer underrun" and is not a subtle degradation - it will be obvious. Our earliest products (SLIMP3, Squeezebox1) had relatively little memory, so this could sometimes be caused by taxing the computer. However, SB2, SB3, and Transporter have lots of memory, so it is very unlikely that you could cause an underrun by taxing the CPU with other tasks. Usually, underruns are caused by bad wireless performance. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30933 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
