DanH: sounds like a very plausible explanation to me. i am pretty sure i didnt have this problem in the beginning, either.
Phil: hmmm... i am not sure if that will yield results that are different from simply using regular mp3 files i already have. besides, i wouldnt even know which vorbis files to convert, since i have no conclusive evidence which specific ones are causing this. new experimental results: -> playing a purely vorbis playlist *will* cause the stops to occur. sometimes as early as after the 10th song, sometimes as late as after the 40th. re-starting the same playlist from the start never has reproduced the stops at the same position, they occur at seemingly random tracks and positions. -> the stop is *always* preceeded by a sudden jump or skip one or two tracks ahead in the "now playing" display. slimserver's web-interface skips ahead too! -> a purely mp3 playlist has been playing for some hours now with no stop. -> i tried playing purely vorbis UN-synched on one player last night, to see if the problem is connected to the synch function or not. unfortunately, the SB stopped after 11 tracks sometime in the night. :-( the summary so far: 1. it seems only vorbis files decoded natively will cause the stops. 2. the "now playing" display *always" jumps/skips one or two tracks ahead and freezes the progress bar. this applies to the web-interface and the SBs VFD. this happens when natively playing vorbis as well as transcoding to flac. 3. even though it also occurs when un-synched, it does not seem as often. 4. transcoding vorbis to flac/mp3 will not crash the SB anymore, but will still cause the "now playing" display to corrupt and has caused an utter and total slimserver crash. 5. playing native mp3 or flac does not seem to cause problems. my newest hypothesis: there is something wrong with the ogg container file handling on the slimserver, since eliminating the SB as a problem source through transcoding did not solve the problem. since the "now playing" display is controlled by slimserver, its corruption also points in that direction. the SB's DSP+DAC crashing may only be a symptom, not the root cause. i guess there is only one more thing for me to do: try SC7... :-( -- dcote ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dcote's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43298 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
