Hi guys I have an SB3 (with the new mars bar remote). It is being served from a Qnap TS-201 from Progressive running 6.3.1. The SB3 firmware is 55.
When running normally the SBs response is instant to the remote. I have had no performance problems. I'm going over wireless from a LinkSys 54G AP with 60-80% wireless signal. Up until yesterday I'd really just played from time to time with it (purchased for XMAS). Yesterday 3 odd things happened. Firstly whilst listening to a track the volume suddenly seemed to drop. I instantly turned to the SB3. It all happened in a second, but I think it was still displaying the track name. I touched the remotes volume control and instantly the volume went back to the level it was previously at. Secondly, a few minutes after the above, the SB3 just appeared to power off during a track. Playback stopped and the screen went blank. I think the remote was unresponsive for a few seconds (but I can't be sure) and then I managed to power it on with the standby button. After that it behaved normally. Thirdly .... I have just started to notice an annoying click at the beginning of all tracks (except the only double album I encoded as Apple Lossless). This click is volume sensitive - i.e. if the volume is low, it's a very quiet click and if volume is high the click is very high. All my tracks (with the exception of the double album mentioned) are either 128kb/s AAC or 256 kb/s AAC. All were encoded with iTunes. I'd really appreciate any suggestions here. Another confusion .... I read on the Slimdevices site that the SB3 supported AAC and Lossless AAC. I think I'm now right in thinking that this is dodgy marketing. It appears that it is slimserver that supports those formats and if you want to play one, it converts to a natively supported format on the fly. I may end up re-encoding all 400 of my CDs in a lossless format. If I do, what do you recommend ? If I continue to use AAC and Lossless AAC what format conversion should I select in Slimserver ? Someone mentioned there was an AAC to FLAC. In my 6.3.1 it only offers AAC to wav or mp3 and bizarrely both are set. If I mess with these settings it really seems to screw up the SB. Obviously if both are unchecked it says it can't play the track and kind of hangs. If you enable just the mp3 conversion, I think it still fails to play. When you reenable both, the first track I played sounded very quiet and dull. When I stopped it and tried again, it was back to normal. The SB continued to be fairly slow at responding. I have now kicked off a complete rescan. When that completed the SB was performing normally again, but I still get the click at the beginning of all tracks. It's driving me mad. I'm in a bit of difficult position because I can't upgrade the firmware on the SB because I can't upgrade the Slimserver as it's on Qnap (not something I knew about when I purchased it). I also don't know if I can extract logs off the qnap. Cheers Paul. -- pgamble Squeezebox3 - Black Wireless. QNAP TS-201 - 320Gb. Slimserver 6.3.x ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pgamble's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8894 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31621 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
