slartibartfast wrote: > Now I have the latest which mode do I need, Persistent mode or Cache > http(s) streams? > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
slartibartfast wrote: > Persistent mode seems to work. With LMS updates is it possible that if > another update from earlier the same day had not been installed then the > very latest version would not be installed even though it was available? > The time on mine was 25th April 10:15:33 CEST but I installed it late > last night after the the time on the latest version. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk The info-bubble helps a bit here. Persistent & Cache have the same objective: make your "long" connection more reliable. A lot of servers today expect people to not stream for long time (except webradio of course) so they will close such long sessions. They want you to get what you need as quickly as possible and then leave... Cache is doing that by downloading the WHOLE track as quickly as possible and caching it into the disk. Now if that download fails, the playback will fail at some time, there is no retry. Cache obviously does not work for webradio streams or servers that does not communicate expected length and cache uses potentially large amount of disk. Persistent is using a different approach where it does not try to go fast, but it is stubborn. If the connection closes, it will re-open it until it has received everything expected or more than 5 consecutive errors happen. So it solves the problem differently and still have series of (very) long sessions, which might not look like "playing nice" for some servers. Now it works well for webradio as well. Note that if you chose "Cache" it will fallback automatically to "Persistent" when expected length is unknown. I personally use "Cache" because I think the likelihood of a quick download to fail is *very* low and I don't mind the disk usage LMS 8.2 on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet, 1xTouch, 1xSB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, RivaArena 1 & 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112518 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
