We've got 6 nodes on our network, all hitting two separate servers (one for storage and one for DB). We've found that it's best two have the audio interface remain local on a busy network. The exception would be if you're using Livewire, which we are using successfully without dropouts in a few spots.
If you're finding dropouts are common during big data transfers, perhaps a new network switch is in order. We didn't have a lot of cash to spend, but an enterprise grade Cisco switch has made network issues a thing of the past. Thanks, Brooks On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Nathan Steele < [email protected]> wrote: > WE use case 2. problem is, a network disturbance still causes problems., > ie unplug network cable, song stops. Would be nice if the current song > would at least keep playing, this would allow you to close and reopen > rdairplay for example if you needed to change a setting. I also have > experienced problems during large file transfers, and am not totally > sure wether it is network or disk bandwidth that is the bottleneck, > though I'm leaning toward disk, since it is a gigabit network, with only > Rivendell machines on that switch. > > Nathaniel C. Steele > Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director > WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM > > On 2/25/2013 9:01 AM, Alessio Elmi wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > sometimes we feel like a delay in commands (from the moment we press > > NEXT to the moment I effectively hear sound). I was wonder is changing > > the structure may help or not. > > > > CASE 1 (present situation): Computer A has installed RDAirPlay and has > > audio card. Computer B has db and audio storage. Basically input goes > > from A -> B, and then audio come back B -> A. > > > > CASE 2 (alternative). Computer A has only RDAirPlay and computer B has > > db, audio storage and audio card. Computer A uses B's audio engine. By > > doing this I should save some millisecond.. > > > > CASE 3: (not sure if possible). Each Rivendell workstation has a local > > copy of audio storage which is synced "continuously" with a master > > share. Each Rivendell /var/snd is local. > > > > Which case do you prefer? > > > > In the end I think I can even tune ALSA and NFS setup, but I'm not an > expert.. > > > > Alessio > > _______________________________________________ > > Rivendell-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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