my guess is that it's buffering is done differently between the SB and a lot of media players.
It always seems to me that when playing a remote stream, the Squeezebox starts playing much faster than something like Winamp or XMMS (I don't use WMP). For something like Live Music Archive, this doesn't make much of a difference except in the 'feel' of things... Click 'play' and after the HTTP setup is done, the squeezebox starts playing while other media players can take a second or three longer. The squeezebox will fill its buffer in the first 10 seconds or so and eventually be waiting on archive.org. But with 'live' streams, this may be more of an issue: if data is coming from the remote site at a fixed 128kbps, the buffer never gets a chance to fill on a squeezebox. So the SB would have less delay from a remote stream but more susceptible to network problems. Dan is probably the only one that could confirm or deny this theory, though. If it's true, it would probably be a good thing to make the SB buffer more before starting playing a remote stream, perhaps as a configurable option for people who have more consistent network bandwidth who would like a 'quick start'. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20996 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
