itm wrote: > > I thought it interesting that Google Play Music didn't suffer from the > same issue. Maybe it handles its data buffering differently?
It's probably less an issue of data buffering but a question of control. Google Play Music is a locally running player that only needs to load the data and then runs independently. A Squeezebox (and SqueezePlayer is a Squeezebox) is a streaming client remotely controlled by LMS. Even if it downloads all the data it still expects a permanent connection to the server for all of its control. What it does if that connection falls away depends a bit on the implementation but at the end of the current track, at latest, it won't know what to do and stop. Also, with intermittent connection the server often thinks it needs to reset the playback. You can try to work around it but that, again, is an implementation detail. There's one point where the phone/OS might play a role: with spotty connections the OS can keep the socket connection all of this is based on "virtually" open in a sense that it doesn't let the higher layers know it had been interrupted.iOS for example is pretty good at this over cellular. This might differ from phone model to phone model. I don't know. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107498 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
