It seems that SoftSqueeze, at least, is buffering a song at a time. I guess this would make sense if there was no playlist, but I'm playing either Random Mix lists (which load the next 10 songs so the server always knows the next song) or albums in linear play (again, the next song is predictable.) I'd expect the buffer to deplete in Shuffle play because the next song isn't determined until the current one ends, but it seems the server and player should not deplete the buffer after each song if it knows the next one. Interestingly, it starts filling again before the song completely ends, but it goes to zero first.
I don't know if this is working as designed, or if the SqueezeBox2 works this way as well, but keeping the buffer full whenever possible would improve performance over the Internet (I'm using Softsqueeze to access my home player over a congested Internet connection at work--frequently I can't stream 128k reliably, I'm running 96 now.) -- mrfantasy --Mike _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
