I used to try to sync my SB3 downstairs with SoftSqueeze running on the server PC upstairs, so I could move around the house without skipping a beat. At least, that was the theory. In practice, Softsqueeze just wouldn't keep in sync; this made the trip up or downstairs momentarily painful. But more of a showstopper was that quite often one or other player would simply stop completely; often it would claim to be still playing, but there would be no sound.
I just received a Duet yesterday, and put the receiver in the kitchen. We can hear the living-room from the kitchen, and vice-versa, but neither very well, and so I like the idea of having them in sync. We'd actually got into the habit of unplugging the SB3 and taking it through to the kitchen so we could carry on listening whilst washing up! Experiences so far have been a bit mixed: though it does work a lot of the time, occasionally the players have slipped out of sync, but rather more often there are stuttering "failed starts" before the track gets going properly, and sometimes one player just gives up well into a track, and does nothing until the next track (or unless I go back to the start of the track). However, it's early days; this is based on one day's play. I suspect our wireless network might not quite be up to it, perhaps because the kitchen has our central heating boiler, whose ignition probably plays electromagnetic havoc. Perhaps the server is being hit by an AV scan, or one of the many thousand pointless things that Windows systems seem to do for no good reason. I might be happy not to sync, but "just" to transfer the playlist. (I've yet to investigate whether the GrabPlaylist plugin works in SC7, and whether it can be used from the controller.) In the dining room, I can hear both systems clearly; it's interesting (but not really surprising) that the two systems (one hifi, one "gecko blaster") sound quite different - it can be like hearing two different mixes at once! At other times (mainly after the wife has gone to bed) I'm daft enough to want to play two different ambient playlists on each unit, and hear them blend (or not!) as I move around the house. -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45679 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
