No, as long as the server is good enough to fill the player buffer , that's one core idea behind the squeezebox . It is independent of audio drivers etc on the PC .
However the browsing experience and responsiveness vary greatly with servers and some low end NAS ones with arm or RISC CPU can't handle the transcoding utilities that comes with LMS, thus limiting the choice of file formats and radio stations . Plugin use and transcoding ups the demands on the server, this may cause dropouts if the servers is weak . There is a fad on this forum to let the server transcode flac files to PCM before sending to the player avoid that if your concerned about server load . However the transporter may get glitches with 24/96 flac content with to high compression level ( maxing out it's CPU ) the solution is the to convert to flac with less compression try level -5 or -0 for the paranoid. However everything sounds fine up to the limit where an artefact can be heard snap crackles and hiss etc . If you want to test the system without server impact , you can pull out the Ethernet cable and listen to the 30 seconds stored in the player buffer . In very rare cases there can be actual electrical interference, but that would not be easy to predict for anyone here . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95961 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
