Almost right. It is (surprisingly) not about latency but about when the stream starts. Services like Pandora, Rhapsody, Napster, etc. all send individual streams for each track. When you start playing it starts exactly at the start of a track. This is the same whether or not you get one stream from the source and proxy it via a local Squeezebox Server, or whether each player gets its own stream directly from the source as is the case when using mysqueezebox.com.
With a radio station however, each stream obtained from the remote source -starts- when the individual player connects. This will inevitably be different for each player. Once connected and playing, the server, whether a local Squeezebox Server or mysqueezebox.com, will keep each player in sync relative to the -start- of the stream. For a radio station where each player has its own connection (mysqueezebox.com), the reference point will be different for each player and so they will be kept out-of-sync exactly by the amount of the difference between the reference points. A hack that sometimes works with mysqueezebox.com is to keep restarting playback (using the REW button) until it starts up acceptable in sync. -- awy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ awy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7480 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76491 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
