It depends on the bitrate. A typical FLAC file as I've seen in my collection is between 700 and 1000 kbps. mp3 - it depends on what bitrate you chose for the compression, e.g. a 128kpbs mp3 file will require 128kbps of bandwith to play with no issues.
In reality you'll need a little more bandwith to allow for transport overhead - assume 20 or 30% required extra bandwidth as a ballpark figure. This is the bandwidth required for each player. The server would have to support the sum of the bandwidth of any players playing at the same time. With a wired connection of 100Mbps, this generally isn't an issue. If your server is connected via wireless, then it could be an issue. I hope that helps. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 3 Booms, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.3.3, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 27,462 songs, 2,276 albums, 434 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65763 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
