My main setup consists of SlimServer 6.1.1 running off a Buffalo Linkstation (1st Gen PowerPC version) with mostly flac files and some mp3s, so no server side transcoding. Also all extras such as album artwork have been disabled. The SB2 has firmware 15. This has worked great for me, so I have never bothered upgrading. Why fix what isn't broken.
As a backup, I have the contents of the Linkstation mirrored on a firewire drive attached to a Mac Mini (1.42 GHz PowerPC, OS 10.4.6). I run another Slim Server off this mac, which I frequently update with nightly builds. I mainly use this to stream to SoftSqueeze over the net to work (transcoding flac to 160 kbps mp3s). This also works wonderfully for me. (it takes a few seconds to start a new song, but I can easily forgive it because my home Comcast upload speed is quite crummy as is our office connection, plus it has to do all that transcoding). Today, I was testing the Mac server with the SB2 and noticed that contrary to my expectations, the performance was worse than what I get with the Linkstation. e.g. when in a random mix, if I skip a couple of tracks ahead, the song will play for about 8-10 seconds, then stutter, then pause a few seconds, and then resume again. I have never noticed this with playlists in 6.1.1 from the Linkstation. I made sure all extras like album art, server statistics, etc were disabled, and also toggled between no transcoding of flac, or alternatively transcoding to wav .. all to no effect. The processor and memory usage on the mac are pretty low (averages 5-15%, and occasionally peaks to abot 50%) and there aren't too many other processes running. Any ideas what is happening here? Thanks, Regards, Nikhil -- Nikhil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23850 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
