Since you are running Linux I think the first thing you should do is run "top" and check on the resources of the hpt5720. I am not clear on your set up, but if the "pen" (aka flash memory) drive is your "disk drive" (if that is possible) and you are swapping out, you may severely impact performance. Recall (as you may well know after putting together a thin server) that SqueezeCenter relies heavily on a PERL interpreter and a mySQL data base program running at the same time SqueezeCenter is running. If at all possible, simply adding more memory may help.
Wow, this claim worries me (from some store's hpt5720 web page): > Reduced ownership costs – server-based applications are upgraded faster and with less expense, no moving parts result in less maintenance and downtime than regular PCs. Does that mean there is no hard disk drive? Do you have your music, OS and applications all on the same flash drive? Perhaps putting your music on a different flash drive may help if your "bottle neck" is flash drive access. Sorry, noticed that your music is on another box (a NAS). Logic would say if you can stream from the internet you should be able to get files from your NAS. However, my guess is that SqueezeCenter has different buffer settings for locally stored music. That is, locally stored music may use more resources for a better user experience as data and hardware is expected to be freely available. So, I'll go back to my first guess: Try "top" to see if adding more RAM memory could help. Holy smokes, (I should read everything before I post), are you forcing a transcoding on top of everything else? If so, try not to do that. Transcoding on the fly on a thin server could be the most taxing thing you could do on it. It would be better if your source (i.e. the music on your NAS) was encoded such to be played directly by your clients. You have older clients, so don't rip to FLAC. I think your best bet is to rip to MP3s. Hope this helps. bouton wrote: > I have posted this on the linux forum, but no luck, so thought I'd try > here. > > I may be trying the impossible, but I really want it to work. > I have installed linux/squeezecenter on a pendrive and am running it on > a thin client hpt5720. Well almost! > > It works fine for radio etc but if i tried to play music - verrrrry > weird things happen. Skips, jumps, plays other bits of songs in the > middle of the one I am listening to - very disconcerting to have Bob > Dylan burst into the middle of Aimee Mann even if only for a split > second! > > 1. I have 2 of the original Slimp3s (which I love and are hard-wired > into my LAN and built into the walls of a purpose build construction > > 2. Installed Linux Mint 6 because it had all the codecs - good I > thought > - and it was very easy - onto a 4GB pen drive following instructions > from pendrivelinux.com > > 3. Installed squeezecenter 7.3.2 - 24612 > > 4. Installed lame v 3.98 via apt-get > > 5. Set to DHCP > > 6. Music mounted from NAS drive via mount -t cifs ..... > and it all seems to be fine. music scans in. I get the right number of > albums etc. > > 7. HPT5720 is only for squeezecenter. It's an AMD Geode DX1500, 1.0GHz > w 512 SDRAM and 512 Flas Ram with winXP embedded and is wired into the > network > > 8. All the music (700+tracks) is MP3 - mixed bag of speeds/rates. > > Then I go to play it - and yuck! Again - and it's with every song. Not > just one or two. Always. > > Except Internet radio which works just fine so at least I can get Radio > Paradise ;) > > I set the player->audio->bitrate to 320 (with LAME noted as installed > correctly) and Lame quality=9 > > I can't diagnose network or performance issues with the plugin because > it doesn't work with SLIMP3s. > > So - any ideas? > This is such a perfect set up I want it to work badddd. > Thanks > Katherine > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
