Phil Karn wrote: ...
You're right, my skips *would* almost certainly go away if I transcoded everything to MP3 over the LAN. And yes, I have enough server CPU cycles to do that in real time. But that's a *kludge*, and I shouldn't have to resort to kludges. The Squeezebox is advertised as being able to stream raw PCM over a 100 Mb/s Ethernet LAN in real time, and that's just what I want it to do. All it would take is some careful attention paid to proper task/thread structuring and prioritization within the Slimserver package. I've bought three Squeezeboxes so far, and I paid a tidy sum of money for them. Why is it somehow unreasonable to expect them to perform as advertized?
--Phil
No, your requests aren't unreasonable from a customer standpoint, though I can't help but think that you do seem informed enough to have thought the issues through and had an idea what to expect beforehand. I do think that Slim Devices could have done a better job of what in my day job we call "setting expectations"... that is, gently introducing reality into the discussion without dispelling too much of the glow. As I'm sure you're aware, "some careful attention paid to proper task/thread structuring and prioritization within the Slimserver package" is easier said than done. Plenty of people have recognized that it would help, but no one has produced any code. I certainly don't have the chops or time to do it.
Yes, I am trotting out the typical open source defence of "if you're not happy, patch it"... well, Slimserver is open source and plenty of its functionality has been provided by non-SDI folks, so the defence certainly applies. Sure, it'd be great if you could take the entire bullet list of features and have them all implemented in a single product... any product, really...
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