pippin wrote: > OK, bitrate limiting OFF is fine. > > If it's just iPeng as a player (not the SBs), the I really believe it's > the router issue. > What happens is this: > iPeng's player (not iPeng as a remote) has two connections to the > server, one for the actual music and one for control of the player (the > server has the control authority). There is a problem with some routers > (probably a chipset incompatibility issue with what is being used in the > iThingies) that makes the control connection actually break down (no > data is being sent anymore) without the device noticing (the connection > stays open and just doesn't send or receive data anymore). This causes > the symptoms you describe. > > The problem for iPeng is that it is hard to recover from this. It's not > a problem for iPeng's remote control connections and also not a problem > for the stream itself, these connections get shut down and > re-established frequently. > However, it's harder to do this with the control connection. The issue > here is that as soon as the connection is being shut down and re-opened > by the client (iPeng), the server will stop and restart the current > track from the beginning. So just letting it run into a timeout and > re-opening it if there is no data coming in has the unfortunate > side-effect that it will sometimes stop and restart tracks even with a > perfectly good connection that just didn't see any data for a while, for > example because the server is busy - this often happens in transcoding > environments. All the workarounds we have created for the router issue > so far made playback less stable for all other users which is not a good > solution. > > HOWEVER: If you are also seeing similar issues with your Squeezebox > Touch as a player, it's definitely something else. At least I have never > seen this particular problem with a Squeezebox, only with iThingies, my > old MacBook Air and my old Dell/Samsung notebook (I own a router that > shows the problem, too).
Thank you for the detailed response. Although a bit of it was over my head, I think I have the gist of what your are describing. The issue hasn't popped back up since my last post. I'll keep an eye on it and see if it happens again, especially looking to see if it happens when using the Touch. I certainly agree that if the workarounds make playback less stable then that is not a good option. Thank you again for your help. I'll let you know if it pops up again and under what conditions. :) PS - the more I discover in this app the more I'm enjoying it. Keep up the great work! :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturn94's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56831 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
