SamS;199709 Wrote: > I've been able to do some further diagonsis. > > When skipping forward during Random Mix, the ReadyNAS has to add a song > to the upcoming playlist. This is where the dropouts are occuring, as > Mark speculated. Changing the number of upcoming songs really won't > matter, as it has to fill up the buffer when it pulls another song for > the playlist.
Filling up the buffer isn't causing problems for you - see your Player Statistics - you didn't even get one sample less than 10% buffer. This means you have adequate bandwidth to fill the buffer without dropouts. It seems to be the act of choosing another track at random that's taxing the CPU and causing problems. Unfortunately you're right, I gave bad advice - once the initial playlist is loaded, only one track will be added at a time. If the CPU can't handle that, it doesn't matter how many tracks ahead you add. The numbers I suggested to change only -show- the upcoming tracks and the previous tracks in the playlist. Unfortunately there's not too much you can do. Based on what I read about NASes, they just don't seem to have the horsepower to reliably run SlimServer 6.5.0+. You can ease the CPU load by closing the web interface when it's not in use, but there's not much more you can do. -- 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
