Thanks for the info - I had sort of figured that was the issue after
digging through some PortAudio code last night.  (Used to be a coder,
now I'm more of a hosting/networking/security type.  It's been a while
since I've tried to read through "real" C code.)

I tried playing with PA_MIN_LATENCY_MSEC, even setting it different
between the 2 instances.  I'm pretty sure I'm not getting dropouts,
although the 2 sets of speakers are still pretty close together while
I'm setting this up.  As you said, I'm trying to control 2 rooms from 1
machine, although I'm guessing that one instance apiece on 2 machines
would have a similar issue.  I would like to give the 2 rooms the
ability to be synced, but not require them both to always be on.  (My
deck and patio are 2 other "rooms" I would like to have synced - I'd
rather not have the patio on if we're just on the deck.)

I realize I'm trying to get champagne results on a beer (OK, maybe
wine) budget - I'm just trying to figure out when I have to switch to
cheap champagne, or just expect it to taste bad. :)  I'm much more of a
computer geek than an audiophile, but I still like my music to sound
good.  (Listening to flamenco guitar get out of sync is PAINFUL!)

One question - if I had 2 identical soundcards, should I expect them to
still have this issue?

I'll also take a look at 0.7.3, although 0.7.2 took care of some of the
issues I was having.  It's still a little flaky every now and then -
looking at lsof it doesn't always open the socket back to slimserver,
but wrapping it with aoss (an earlier hack I tried) seems to alleviate
that for some reason.

I'll try to keep my geeky questions out of General and put them over in
the developers or Linux forum.  Sorry, still a noob here.


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