I'm not sure this question has an answer but I'm going to ask it anyway. Music playback on my Squeezeboxes keeps stopping for some reason and I'm trying to find and eliminate the cause. The problem is worse when I have 2 Squeezeboxes synchronised.
I thought the problem might be wireless contention but I've just eliminated that by connecting the only Squeezebox that is playing...well until it stopped just now...to a hub. I currently use a Buffalo Linkstation on a 100mb switched network for central storage - music, documents, etc. My perception is that is slow and I wonder whether this is the issue. The Linkstation is also accessed by other machines in the network for document updates, back-up and MP3 tag edits so it could possibly be contention on the LAN connection to the Linkstation. SlimServer is running on an IBM T23 laptop (1.1Ghz PIII, 512Mb RAM) which should be more than adequate. The only other things running on there are MusicMagic and AVG (the MP3 and SlimServer directories are excluded from the on-access scanner). I'm wondering storing the MP3s on a USB HDD connected to the laptop via a USB2 PCMCIA card (only USB1 on board) will improve the situation. I guess my question boils down to: which is the more efficient of resources and which is likely to have the greatest throughput - the Buffalo Linkstation or the external PCMCIA/USB2 HDD? As an aside, are there any diagnostics I can switch on in SlimServer so it will log what's going on and, perhaps, help me pinpoint the problem? (I'm running the 6.2.2 nightly from 5th Feb at the moment but I've had the problem for longer than that) Thanks. Kevin _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
