hi everyone! i discovered something strange the other night while we were having a party and my two SB3s were synched in "party mode" ;-).
we found that *both* would simply freeze up after an arbitrary time of playing. Symptoms: -> SB3s will react to the remotes, but no music would play anymore. and the "big" spectrum analyzer screensaver would stay frozen in the background. even when pressing play, nothing happens, no sound, no progress bar advancing, nothing. -> only unplugging the SB3s from power will reset them. -> this *only* occurs when they are synched, never when they play alone. -> sometimes they freeze after one or two songs, other times they can play for hours before it happens. but it always *will* happen. -> It does not seem to be due to the audio formats and/or songs, because when i backtrack to the song the SB3 crashed at and try again, it works fine. -> the freeze almost always seems to occur at the *end* of a track, just before the new one starts. -> all the above symptoms are reproduceable at any time - given enough time. we just havent noticed it yet, since we rarely used the SB3s synched before. (possible) caveats: -> both SB3s are on an 802.3g wlan -> we almost exclusively use (saved) playlists. some of them contain ~700 songs. because of this, we are not sure if the behavior still occurs with shorter and/or new playlists. -> my slimserver is a severly resource-starved VIA ITX mainboard with a PIII, 700MHz equivalent processor and 1GB of RAM. it runs a lot of other software as well. Things i have already done: -> i upgraded from an 802.3b to a "g" wlan, in case there are latency/bandwidth issues causing this. no effect. -> bugzilla tells me crossfading and synching does not work together and is not supported. switched crossfade off. no effect. -> tried synching first the one and the other to see if the sequence makes a difference. no effect. -> shut down any other applications on my slimserver, which may interfere. no effect. -> i tested SC7 beta the other day and for some odd reason the scanner would crash before it finished my repository. this does not happen with 6.5.5., so i am going to wait for the SC7 release. My system: windows 2003 server 32 bit SP2, SS 6.5.5 i realize SC7 will have vastly improved synching capabilities, so i may just have to wait for the release and see if the problem goes away. has anyone seen this effect? thanks in advance, dom -- dcote ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dcote's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41793 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
