Don't want to flog a dead horse here... but just stumbled across the
hardware spec for the SB1:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?HardwareComparison
It says the SB1 has 8Mb of buffer RAM... This equates to almost 60s of
raw WAV audio @ 150Kb/sec. This would be more than adequate in
On 2/10/06, nico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't want to flog a dead horse here... but just stumbled across thehardware spec for the SB1:http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?HardwareComparison
It says the SB1 has 8Mb of buffer RAM... This equates to almost 60s ofraw WAV audio @ 150Kb/sec. This
Note: This is all complete guess work :)
fullness: 228868 (99%)
You're assuming that number is in bytes, let's suppose it's frames,
where a frame is 4 bytes (2 bytes per channel, 2 channels). That gives
us a fullness of 915472 bytes.
You're also assuming 8Mb is 8 megabytes, I think it's much
Cool. I did try the 8 megabit == 1 megabyte calc before and also got the
6-8 seconds theoretical value you quoted. But *empirically*, the results
seems to show that 2s is buffered, which agrees more with the
implication that only about 256 Kbytes are being buffered.
On my platform (UNIX) I can
nico:
Sounds like some good detective work. Would you mind
updating the wiki to reflect this? Just so that
others don't get confused.
Thanks.
--- nico [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Cool. I did try the 8 megabit == 1 megabyte calc
before and also got the
6-8 seconds theoretical value you
How to reduce dropouts?
1 - (simple but expensive) - upgrade to an SB3, as you already noted
2 - (a bit of a pain) - switch to using high bit rate MP3s... it is
claimed that 320kbit MP3 is pretty indistinguishable from lossless,
though this of course depends on the rest of your kit, and ears!
Thanks for all those suggestions. So it seems like extending the level
of buffering (somehow) is not an option? (short of SB3 purchase of
course). That's good to know, I won't pursue that avenue any more.
Probably my next move is to try MySQL (I run this on my machine anyway
for other
I got the same thing with skipping to the next song in a random mix.
But my PC is not a dual Xeon by far ('fairly powered' you call it!?).
For me it only occured when I was using MySQL. When I switched back to
SQLite the dropouts disappeared. Unexpected, since I thought MySQL
would be
