Several of us are still seeing periods of hangs. Is the plugin using the Flac stream Bill at RP is working on improving? (which would give us hope this is eventually resolved). Or is the plugin using something else from RP and this is just something we'll have to become accustomed to?
What I'm using is not the "endless" flac stream he's working on. But it's rather a series of flac files, accessible through an API of Bill's. This allows for skipping tracks, gets us metadata etc.
Please note that this is not something I invented, or he did especially for us. It's something he developed for other players, too. Eg. his Alexa integration AFAIK would use the same.
The stuttering issue is something I feel rather helpless about. It happened to me, too. But I tend to believe that I've only ever experienced it with pCP, but never on a real SB. But then my use of one or the other is also a timing question: Transporter during the day, Radio in the kitchen, pCP in the evenings (CET).
The skipping ahead, or cut-off tracks, could be a plugin bug. One of the weak points I could imagine is the fact that one "file" would not correspond to a single track, but can be four or six or whatever number of tracks. Therefore the code needs to rely on timers and buffers etc. to calculate what metadata the currently playing music corresponds to. That's a rather fragile link between the two. A small bug in buffer calculation could cause the duration metadata to mis-match, triggering a skip etc. But as it doesn't happen all the time, it's really difficult to debug. Whenever it happens, it's too late to watch what's going on...
And keep in mind that Bill is doing an incredible job. He's running a small (headcount) business, with quite a bit of complexity and reliability requirements. He gives me a lot of support. I'm actually surprised by his presence in fora, responsiveness to my mails etc. So yes, please give him some slack. I know he's constantly working on improving his services.
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