It seems to be different for different people. I've discussed a lot today with a user having similar issues while it worked flawlessly all the time for me. It's a bit hard to tell what exactly causes it, there might already have been issues on TIDAL's side today/yesterday but generally speaking the Squeezeboxes seem to be pretty sensitive to buffer underruns with lossless remote streaming. We've been seeing similar issues with the 3rd party Qobuz plugin (and the ickStream Qobuz one as well) and with WiMP.
Testing hints that buffer size plays a role but that's something not easily changed, especially for the old Squeezebox models. Personally, I suspect that congestion also plays a role, but that's really just a guess. But with a small buffer the SBS are susceptible to streams that have a changing performance or delays between packets, TIDAL's own App probably works around that by buffering much more, These days the likes of Netflix eat a lot of bandwidth at prime time (Netflix alone makes up for more than 1/3rd of peak traffic in the US) and they are buying QoS (priority). You know, that's that "net neutrality" issue, so other stuff might stream less consistent, especially if you are far away from the server or the interconnect. Only some users seem to be affected so I doubt it's the software alone or the codec or something, it looks like a lot of system issues play into it, probably also which ISP you use and it's policies. Moving forward we probably need to find a way to add more buffering on the client side (or the plugin). We are working on a few ideas but really have to find out what works and what doesn't.. It's definitely not an easy fix or one we can just deploy on (our) server side. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS 8* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102497 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
