wcattey wrote: > I've been doing client / server computing practically since it was > invented. (Anybody remember MIT's Project Athena?) One of the design > principles that I keep seeing people failing to learn year after year, > generation after generation is this: >
Impressive credentials! Welcome to the forum. > What is my experience just as a user? I go downstairs, and exercise to > internet radio played directly off my Roku. Then I come upstairs and > then begin the process of trying to figure out why my Squeezebox won't > play today! > Well, did you figure it out? Threads like this make me wonder why my 4 SB wireless network just works and keeps working at least 99% of the time. The 1% is slimserver dying on rare occasions, hiccups when my wifi network decided to switch to 1 Mbps *once* and occasionally players getting out of sync. The latter is the most fragile, but I can live with it. I hate the way tracks restart when you add another synced player, though, couldn't the same thing be achieved with a short pause in playback? For the guy suggesting multicast: The SB's buffer minutes worth of audio, so multicasting seems unnecessary. Perhaps the 'start' command itself should be multicasted (or simply broadcasted, that would suffice for 99% of all audio networks). Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
