Bimmerstyle wrote: > 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 music 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...). At least the scanning of my library is back at it's normal > speed now. That's something. > > Thanks to the people who helped me figuring it out.Are all your squeezeboxes > synchronised?
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