Tonight I got the fright of my life, when my SB3 started stuttering during playback of FLAC files. It was horrifying! Once might have been a temporary glitch; but then it did it again, and again.
I've not really tracked down the problem yet. Turned on Network & Performance monitoring, which showed nothing different from usual. (Admittedly, "usual" includes a signal strength of 50-60%, even when my laptop in the same room says the signal strength is Excellent. Well, maybe that's Microsoft's definition of Excellent :-)). Eventually, turning on the buffer fullness view showed that the buffer was pretty much empty. Yet all other indicators look fine: as I said, signal strength hasn't gone down, and the server stats think it's doing OK. However, earlier in the day, I *did* muck around with the File Format Conversion Setup in Server Settings / File Types. By default, it seems that everything is checked here. I have no idea what it means, but assumed that FLAC would be handled natively by default. So today I decided to uncheck all but the native support for FLAC (and WMA, and most of the others). Maybe I'm wrong; maybe FLAC has been getting transcoded all along! Could someone explain, or point me to an explanation of, the Conversion page in the SS browser? For example, if multiple options are selected for FLAC (i.e. Stream Format values FLAC, MP3 and WAV), what happens when I pick a FLAC file to play? It's hard to believe that my wireless network can't deliver FLAC fast enough to keep the Squeezebox happy. I'm hoping that my recent switch from 6.2.2 to 6.5.0 (and soon after, to a 6.5.1 nightly) isn't somehow responsible. Going back to 6.2.2 would be a last resort. -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28681 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
