> To be honest, I'm more concerned about gapless mix albums than internet > radio Me too, which is why I essentially never sync my 3 players. A shame, but gaps are a bigger shame.
> 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? > Bingo. Or rather no client is _required_ to buffer anything but a non-buffering client really isn't going to work very well. Ever seen "Buffering..." when playing back a streaming video or something? Exactly the same thing - rate of consumption exceeds rate of delivery for long enough to exhaust the 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). > The general idea is, I believe, to introduce checkpoints every x seconds where the players compare where they are in the playback. Then the playback rate (i.e. DAC clock) is adjusted slightly on n-1 players to bring them back into sync. So yes, you'd be adjusting the clock - I can't see any other way of doing it either. I don't think that counts as jitter though - which is typically defined as variations from the ideal clock on a per-cycle basis rather than general deviations in clock rate. I'm sure it'll upset some audiophiles though :) -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23353 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
