iPhone;352329 Wrote: > Yeah, I guess itÂ’s mainly a quality issue for me. Not the quality of > SoftSqueeze, but of a PC sound card and PC speakers. I spend so much > time in my office in front of a PC when the markets are open, I felt I > had to have a small system in the office that was above the sound > available from a soundcard and PC speakers.
I agree - I spend too much time in front of PCs. But I don't work at home, and I obviously can't lug a real stereo with me from client to client. The iPod has to suffice during business hours. But weekends and evenings are when I want the music all over the house - just not enough time to justify really beefing up what's in the office. iPhone;352329 Wrote: > Speaking of computers, has anybody checked to see if it makes a > difference if softSqueeze is running on the same PC as SC? Does running > SC on a server and softSqueeze on another PC help or hurt the sync > issue? To be more specific about my setup, I have SC running on an ancient Windows Server 2003 SP1 box with a P4 940, 4GB RAM, and all the FLACs are on a 4x200GB SATA RAID5 set. The server does lots of stuff - Exchange, domain controller (no private messages about why you shouldn't co-locate DCs and Exchange, please) web server, SQL server, etc, etc. It's not just for SC. My desktop is a Windows Vista SP1 x64 box, Core 2 Duo E6750, and ASUS P5K-E motherboard (including onboard sound, ADI AD1988B chipset) 4GB RAM. So, OK, I have a goodly amount of memory, but I have not invested in any kind of super fast sound card. Both machines are on the same gigabit switch? That might make a difference? The point I am driving at is that the sound card, in my experience, is probably not affecting things. Unless my specific crappy onboard sound card is the magic bullet for SoftSqueeze synchronization (probability: low) then there's definitely other variables at play. iPhone;352329 Wrote: > Also when I have run softSqueeze on the office PC, I have seen some odd > behavior. It locks up or crashes every time I play Acoustic Alchemy > -The Colonel and the Ashes-. There are no issues with any of the > Squeezeboxes playing this song. It also does this on one of Michael > Hedges CDs. And now looking up both of the songs, they both happen to > be track 6. Wonder what that is all about? Track #6 is the track of the beast. ;-) -- androidtopp My SB3 is the most expensive part of my stereo. So I'm not going to brag about it. And my SBB as well...Is it wrong that my alarm clock is worth more than most of my stereo components? I need to work on that. http://www.last.fm/user/androidtopp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ androidtopp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19681 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54061
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