maggior;449806 Wrote: 
> As far as I know, the default configuration of SC is to convert WAV
> files to FLAC prior to streaming.  So, even though your source files are
> in WAV format, you are actually streaming FLAC over the network to your
> player.  That is unless you've taken steps in the configuration to
> bypass that.
> 
> Do you see a spike in CPU activity on the NAS at the beginning of a
> track?  Since transcoding has to occur, perhaps the issue is that the
> CPU is spiking and not able to encode enough to FLAC to keep the stream
> going at the very beginning of the file.

I now have version 7.2.1 installed which works fine. CPU load is
between 6 and 9% during playback (this was the same with 7.3.3). Nearing
the end of a song CPU load goes up gradually. The highest peaks I
noticed was 74% - it tends to differ from song to song. I don’t know at
what value it peaked with 7.3.3.
Memory usage with 7.2.1 is 5.5%; with 7.3.3 memory consumption was
around 9%. These figures should be fine for the NV+ (even those of
7.3.3). 
My NAS is still very responsive even with SC peaking at higher levels
during buffer loads at the beginning of each song. I actually can’t tell
any difference in performance during the heavier SC loads. I must say
that I’m very happy with the NV+ considering it uses a SPARC processor.

As for the streaming format: I didn’t change anything on the
configuration – so I guess I’m streaming FLAC then. In the Advanced tab,
on the File type page, WAV is set to system default.


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