On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 5:21 PM, lcahil < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm wondering how flow control and buffering work between the > SlimServer & Squeezebox, and whether it can be tuned. For example, how > many seconds (or kbytes) of audio does the Squeezebox buffer?
Based on the information in your thread, you are using a Squeezebox v1 which has 1.8mb of buffer space. This is equivalent to just 1-2 seconds of uncompressed audio (WAV) which is probably what the FLAC is being transcoded to. There is no room for additional buffering to be done. Hardware based on the Squeezebox v2 and higher will support native FLAC and also has a buffer almost 10x larger so periodic dropouts are much less common. To make matters worse for you, the SB1 supports 802.11b wireless networks only whereas the SB2 and higher support 802.11g. The truth is that the SB1 over wireless is not a good choice for uncompressed audio/FLAC. For MP3 it's OK because the SB1 can decode that natively and store a reasonable amount in the buffer too. Here's a comprehensive hardware comparison: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?HardwareComparison Ben
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