i bought a squeezebox duet and installed squeezecenter on an old powerbook g4 (550MHz) running mac os x 10.5.x, all files are ALAC-encoded (apple lossless) and housed on an external 1TB hard drive connected via firewire 400 (fastest connection the powerbook has). the powerbook is connected via gig-e to a linksys gig-e switch. the receiver piece of the duet is connected to the linksys switch as well, but of course the receiver is only 100Mb capable.
when i first received the duet, i installed squeezecenter 7.0 on the powerbook and everything was happy. squeezecenter 7.1 came out and i installed it. that's when the stuttering started. a few seconds of the track play, then it goes silent, one or two seconds later, it starts playing again. i removed 7.1 and reinstalled 7.0 and the receiver reloaded its firmware. the stuttering continued, but then the "magic moment" happened ... the firmware on the controller (aka the remote) was updated and after it rebooted, the stuttering was GONE (back to happy times). in the meantime, i had purchased a readynas NV+ (upgraded to 1GB ram and 4 x 500GB disks). i tried both SC 7.1 and SC 7.2 (very recently released) on the readynas and both exhibit the start of track stuttering problem. i haven't tried SC 7.2 on the powerbook yet, but i'm guessing it will exhibit the same stuttering issue. it seems to be related to the controller software in my case and i'm really hoping it can be fixed so i can use my readynas (main reason i purchased it was to have it serve my music library). the reason i went with ALAC instead of FLAC is because i don't want to duplicate my music library (i already use itunes for my ipod and will for an iphone in the future). it would be REALLY cool if logitech allowed you to load the squeezebox with whatever codecs you wanted (as i only use ALAC). perhaps it's a licensing issue? thanks in advance for any help in resolving my issue (for now i'm back to SC 7.0 running on my old dinosaur powerbook serving my music). -- TrainedMonkey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TrainedMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16538 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53021 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
