How loud are these blips and glitches? My experience with SB Touch and SB Radio is the same - a fraction of a second of silence, once every 75 seconds, approximately. I am not sure it counts as a drop-out since the music seems to come back in time. I'd have to listen some more to be sure, or capture the waveform and take close look. Whatever the cause, it is a real annoyance. I wonder if the interruption could be some sort of audio watermark?
amcluesent's solution works; disable native aac for aac streams under "file formats" in "advanced" in the SB server. Thanks for this! Under "Internet Radio", the option "BBC iPlayer" and "Listen Live" then give uninterrupted audio streams, including BBC Radio 3 HD. This must be your excellent the plug-in at work, Triode. The option "BBC Radio" must be the applet, not the server plug-in, since there the problem remains. I have yet to work out how to change settings on BBC Radio, but BBC iPlayer is sufficient, so problem solved. In this case, by the way, Touch and Radio are running from different servers on different computers, both giving the same problem resolved in the same way. Forgive my possibly going over old ground - this is my second post and I have not assimilated much else on this forum. However, thank you, Triode, for the plug-in and the applet, and for your generosity in making them available, together with comments and guidelines here. I noticed a news item on "experimental" Radio 3 HD in the last week of the Proms, and was sceptical, also too busy to try it. I'd tried audio streaming over the years, via e.g. Real Audio. The sound was originally atrocious, later improving to merely bad. Equally, the standard broadcast digital reception today is less than compelling, even with at the 192 kbps allocated to Radio 3. I had my heroic and venerable FM tuner repaired, but getting a decent signal required running aerial cables through the house, and even then the sound is not what it once was, to my recollection. I read that BBC FM is compressed these days, possiblyy with in-car reception in mind. Now we have Radio 3 HD, which is wholly remarkable. A 320 kbps aac rendering of a CD gives a result indistinguishable (to me) from the source LPCM at 44.1 kHz, 16 bit. So we have something deserving of the term "CD-quality" - at last. However, I think 320 kbps aac encoding of a live feed may exceed the resolution of CD, giving results comparable with high resolution audio files at, say, 24 bit, 96 kHz. I bought the SB touch to play FLAC files, with radio reception a secondary consideration. So the real test and benefit of Radio 3 HD is live broadcast, not some chap in a studio playing CDs, however up-market his player. I wonder why the BBC is being so coy about HD? I hope it is not dreaded DRM issues. We may be back in a digital equivalent of the days where a BBC FM live broadcast was about the best audio source one could get. This would be something to celebrate. Apologies for the length! -- John A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John A's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42501 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82967 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
