Okay, first things first. CONTROLLER GENERAL INFO Firmware version: 7.8.0 r16739 Current player: Squeezebox Receiver Player Type: Remote
SQUEEZEBOX RECEIVER Firmware version: 77 Player Type: Receiver LMS version 7.9.0-161 (beta?) platform: Synology DiskStation 1812+ OTHER Spotify Premium account Spotify related plugins installed on LMS: Official Spotify plugin (v1.0) and Triode & Herger's Spotify Protocol Handler (v1.1.1) Problem: constant buffering, even when SBR is connected to net via ethernet. Spotify desktop client on a Windows 7 uses the same internet connection; has not interrupted playback ever due to buffering. I had a Squeezebox Classic, which I loved, for years. Then the amp it was connected to died, and it took me a year to find a replacement. After several years of reliable service a year being unplugged from mains proved too much for the poor thing, and once I powered it up again, it began to reboot itself the moment it was supposed to start streaming audio. A while later it stopped powering up completely. So I dug up a Squeezebox Duet I had bought a few years ago. Still in original packaging, had never been used. How hard could this be, I thought, and began to set it up. Cue several days of cursing both the Receiver and the Controller, uninstalling and re-installing LMS on the DiskStation, messing about with LMS plugins, several re-installations of various firmware versions on the Controller... and then, finally, the Receiver offered to use the ethernet connection instead of wireless. Performance when using wireless had been so abysmal I had no choice but to try set the Receiver for ethernet. I was sooo certain all Spotify streaming issues would disappear if SBR would simply use ethernet. Nope! I think the longest SBR has managed flawless streaming has been maybe 10 minutes or so. Usually what happens is that it starts streaming music, and either plays the first 1/10th of a second followed by buffering, or the song plays approx 3 seconds before buffering kicks in. Rest of the song plays plays in 5-10 second pieces, and most often SBR gives up on the song in under 2 minutes and skips to the next one on the playlist. I'm at my wits' end here and totally out of ideas what to try next. Any help & advice would be hugely appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pteittinen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58212 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106582 _______________________________________________ Duet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/duet
