Ivan,

I'm sorry we have not been able to provide a solution for you yet.

I don't personally do tech support by private email, but I do comment
on the forums where I think I might be of assistance. Our support team
can give you one-on-one assistance, either by phone or email. While I
do know a lot about our products, they are often better at diagnosing
this kind of problem, because they deal with them more often.

However, in order for them to help you, you need to be patient and be
prepared to work through the troubleshooting process. The information
that you have provided so far has been kind of vague and contradictory.
I understand that it is an intermittent issue and that makes it hard to
pin down the behavior, but since we haven't yet identified the problem
we will need your help.

We have to get firm answers to the kind of questions I was asking
earlier, such as:

1) Does it happen at the same point in the track every time? The reason
when need to know this is to determine whether the problem is due to the
Squeezebox being unable to decode a specific portion of the file (as
opposed to an intermittent failure). At first you said it was at the
same point in the file every time, but then you said you suspected some
RF or noise phenomenon, which would be inconsistent with that.

2) Does this happen with all file formats, or just one? This would help
identify whether it is a software or hardware issue, and may also help
us understand if it's a problem specific to some of the files you are
playing. 

3) Does it happen on Squeezenetwork as well as Slimserver? This helps
identify whether there is something funny going on at your server.

4) Does it happen on both wired and wireless? I didn't ask this earlier
because your description was not consistent with buffer underrun
behavior. However, in light of all the confusion it would be a very
good thing to test. 

5) Does it happen with all the outputs? If the problem happens on a
digital output but not the RCAs then that rules out software issue and
point to a problem with player, the cabling, or the receiver.

6) does it happen with different amp/speakers. At first it stopped
happening when you changed amplifiers, but now it is persistent across
several players. This really needs to be tested more carefully.

If you can answer any of the above with certainty then there will be
other questions we can ask to narrow it down further. I'm confident
that we can solve this problem for you.

One more thing: if the behavior is not consistent enough to be able to
answer any of the questions above, one thing that could be helpful is
if you can make a good quality recording of the sound - perhaps your
laptop has line in that can do it. There are a lot of issues that we
can diagnose by ear.

Sean


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