Ok, I think I've pinpointed the problem. Bad news is I probably can't do a whole lot about it...
So I ended up installing LMS v.7.9.1 found here on the forum. At first I was hopefull. Rebuilding my library was a lot faster than before. In about 15 minutes it was done. When playing one of the affected albums on my PC everything went fine. No drops in sound during 2 songs. After that I powered up the other clients and this is when problems started again. The one in the living room (the Squeezebox with 100% signal strength) didn't affect it. Songs kept on playing. After powering up the Minix in the bathroom and the Squeezebox in the hobby room (the one furthest away) the sound drops reappeared however. Powering those back off solved the problem again. It seems those are too far away from the wifi router and can't keep up with the larger file sizes. What I think is happening is that they need to buffer again and the ones with good signal try to sync with the bad ones causing dropouts on the entire system. Knowing this I can do a workaround. The Lossless files are really not necessary when playing background around my house. So my plan is to convert those to MP3's and use them in the playlists for general background music during the day. I keep the lossless albums and rename them to something like "Albums Name [Lossless]". Then, when I want to sit back in my living room enjoying some music, I can still play those albums since the Squeezebox in the living room has no problem playing them. In the past I messed around with Wifi repeaters but I never found these very reliable and since I rent this house I really can't go pulling wires to the bad signal rooms even if I wanted to so I think this workaround will have to do (unless someone knows a better way to solve this...). Thanks to the people who helped me figuring it out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bimmerstyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68191 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109114 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
