I have seen the bug report regarding this but I wanted to try to understand exactly what the problem was before voting for or suggesting a solution. I am considering buying a second Squeezebox but before I do that I need synchronization when playing internet radio and gapless mix albums.
To be honest, I'm more concerned about gapless mix albums than internet radio. What I don't understand is, if the Squeezebox plays samples at a rate given only by the frequency of the DAC clock then what happens if this is faster than the internet radio station is running? Or is internet radio not actually a broadcast technology at all? Presumably an internet radio station can't cope with 1000s of clients all asking for different parts of the stream? Unless there is some limit on how far the clients can drift out of sync? And what if the internet radio station is actually sampling an audio source in real time? Or maybe the clients are required to buffer say 30secs worth before playing and just hope they aren't tuned in long enough to exhaust this buffer? What I can't see at the moment is how on earth you can keep two Squeezeboxes perfectly synchronized indefinitely either dropping samples, duplicating samples or adjusting the DAC clock (which would introduce jitter presumably). -- shawkie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shawkie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3751 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23353 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
