I've had my two SB3s for more than a year and they have run almost problem-free, until the last few weeks. On a number of occasions, I've had a track restart from the beginning seemingly randomly. I *think* it has only happened with very long tracks (I am a DJ and I prepare 2-hour long single-track MP3 files of my prerecorded radio shows) and the SB doesn't seem to be rebooting, as it will play, say, 30 minutes of the track/show and near-instantaneously, start from the beginning of a track again. If the SB were rebooting, I'd expect there to be a pause in the music, if not a need to go through the setup menu again.
I've never been in the room with the SB (or the computer) when this has occurred to know whether it might be a wireless network issue, a too-many-applications-running-on-the-computer issue or something else. All I can say is that this problem never occurred until very recently and I haven't done any software upgrading (still running SlimServer 6.3.1) and can't think of a good reason that merely playing a lengthy track would cause this to happen, unless there is some buffer folder involved that is getting overfilled. And this certainly doesn't happen every time I play one of my shows - maybe it happens 1 out of every 10 times. Given that I am running mere MP3 files and others are using lossless files, I wouldn't think that the amount of data involved with these 2-hour MP3 files would be the cause. I do live in the city and there are plenty of people around with visible wireless networks, so I do wonder if some sort of wireless network "collision" could be a cause. I'm certainly no wireless networking expert. Does anyone have any ideas at possible causes and, more importantly, solutions? Should I just upgrade to SlimServer 6.5.1 (which I note has created issues of its own for a number of users) or 6.5.0 and see if that makes the problem go away? Are there any known issues with playing lengthy tracks (e.g. the buffer gets too full playing a 200MB track)? Are there any diagnostics I can run to see what might be happening? Has anyone else experienced this issue? I LOVE my SBs, but this new quirk is really quite annoying. Thanks in advance for your help! Dave -- evadsivad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ evadsivad's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10123 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32525 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
