SamS;198436 Wrote: > Thanks Mark, that did it! I wish it did, it hasn't solved your problem. ;-)
> Normally, I have great performance. It is only when the next track from > a Random Mix playlist tries to load it's text data does the buffer ever > fall below 100%. If it only dips to 20% or so, I'm fine, if closer to > 0% buffer, then of course I lose sound for a bit :-( On wireless it wouldn't be the text, it would be the track loading that's doing this. You can enable your buffer on your player display as you play a song. Notice how the pattern is: when the track starts the buffer fills up to 100% and stays there. At a certain point as the song nears its end the buffer will gradually empty until it reaches 0% at the end, then it will re-load the next song. If you're playing MP3s, the buffer may never get to 100% as the entire song may be smaller than the buffer capacity! Or it may fill up and empty right away. Unfortunately this is all fine and good, but you're on wired. You should -never- experience bandwidth issues which cause the buffer to underrun. Even a 10 MB network has at least 10X the bandwidth required by a FLAC file. Is your cable OK? You say your network is OK, are you sure? I'd check it with a packet sniffer like Wireshark but that's pretty complex. I'm hoping someone besides me comes in with suggestions here. One last thing to think of: on Random Mix, when a new track starts, an old one is removed and another random track is added to the playlist. This requires a bit of CPU horsepower (or memory?) and your NAS might be running out. I think I've read this here on the forums. To minimize this, go to Random Mix and at the bottom of the page where it says "Now Playing will show [X] upcoming songs and [Y] recently played songs", change X and Y to low numbers. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34867 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
