liffy99;206477 Wrote: > Still no joy. > I want to try and source music from my PC hard drive (drive M) rather > than from the QNAP, to check whether that NAS is part of the problem. > But whatever I try and put in as a source directory in the Music Folder > field of SS is rejected. At the moment is is set up as /ext/mnt/music to > access the NAS. My music is also stored in M/music on my PC. What > directory path do I need to put in - I seem to have tried all the > combinations of : / \ etc I can think of. > > That said music files (both WAV and FLAC) still play just fine from the > NAS via Media Monkey on the PC, so I assumed this to mean that music was > being read from the NAS OK. > > I'm sure that the problem must lie with the actual streaming - either > that I'm doing the conversion at the wrong end (presumably I should do > this at the PC so as to send smaller bitrates) or that I just don't > have enough bandwidth. How do I check the latter and what File Type > options should I have ticked (or not) to transmit FLAC files on the PC > or NAS to the SB3 ? > Aaggggh
I really thought it was gonna be your recording method (personally I hate audacity). Any way you are probably running into the bug in the SqueezeBox decoding FLAC. Usually this occurs at 24/96 at high FLAC compression rate. But the symptom is stuttering. Either try lowering the compression rate on what ever tool you used to convert to FLAC. Or enable transcoding from FLAC to WAV on SlimServer (do searches on how to do this, I'll get it wrong if I do it by memory). It's something like uncheck FLAC -> FLAC and FLAC -> MP3 and Leave FLAC -> WAV. This basically has the server decode from FLAC to WAV rather than the SqueezeBox. This also assumes you have a decent server machine (not something like a linksys slug). If that doesn't fix it, you may still have network underflow issues. I assume you must be running wireless. Try to improve the signal (Better antenna on router, better router, or moving things etc.) Note transcoding from FLAC to WAV might sound worse if it's network issue because it will put MORE demand on the network. -- mswlogo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34783 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
