Furry wrote: > I set up two LMS servers, one on Windows the other on piCorePlayer > (RPi), and set a player on each (Radio and piCorePlayer respectively) to > play the RP Main flac stream. > > Obviously, they weren't synchronised, but they did play the same tracks > for a while, until one player (Radio) 'skipped', to a different track to > the one which followed on the other player (piCorePlayer): > > piCorePlayer: "Pretty Bird" (Jenny Lewis) -> "Red Virgin Soil" (Agnes > Obel) -> "Burn" (Norah Jones) -> "Sedated" (Choir of Young Believers) > > Radio: "Pretty Bird" -> "Sedated". > > So, the Radio skipped two tracks on this occasion. > > Stopping and restarting the Radio "re-syncs" the player/server to the > current track in the stream. > > While I was writing this, the Radio skipped again, to "Frederick" (Patti > Smith), several tracks ahead of the piCorePlayer, this track actually > occurring after a Bill message subsequently heard between tracks (i.e. > not an interruption) on the the piCorePlayer. > > During this experiment, there were no Bill interruptions to playing > tracks, and RP's own web-player and the piCorePlayer stayed aligned, > track-wise. > > The piCorePlayer setup seems at least a lot less likely to skip, perhaps > not skipping at all (though I have yet to prove this to myself); the > problem seems to afflict the Windows server. > > Both players were (are) using WiFi. I tried using wired connection (to > my Touch), but this didn't make any discernible difference (same > problem).Interesting. Windows servers do seem to have a few issues. I have > never noticed skipping on my Pi running Debian Stretch.
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