Kyle;131825 Wrote:
> Syncing is a pain? I thought it was easy. If it's a pain, that would
> affect my decision on getting another SB.
*Hardware* syncing (between two or more SB's) is smooth/easy, but not
entirely gapless. Software (softsqueeze) syncing is a pain because
there is inherent delay in the system that's hard to get rid of, that
screws up the sync.
I have to disagree and I would hate for someone to buy SB's dead-set on sync'ing them reliably and then have the resulting discussion turn into a flamefest. I have four slim devices from both the Slimp3 and SB2/3 generations and sync'ing is something I have never been able to do reliably. However, you may get lucky and it may work great for you. The truth is, at first when buying the devices I thought that I would sync all the time but I don't feel as though I miss it now. I haven't tried since probably the 6.2.x series of software either so it could be working fairly reliably now I think you will still get the drift during a track until this bug is fixed:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=259
I suspect that with the introduction of the high-end Transporter, it may indeed be in the works to solve this problem once and for all and I'm confident that SlimDevices wouldn't leave the SB2 and SB3 owners behind in any fix. I have little hope for the older devices because I would guess that doing this right will require firmware updates but I may very well be wrong.
BTW, even if this bug is fixed, doing sync over wireless with high quality (FLAC) audio will be *terribly* bandwidth intensive although the use of multicasting would mitigate it. I think multicasting would be a major protocol change but again I'm speculating wildly.
Ben
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