Slightly late to this, but my experience may help give you some confidence...
I am running, and regularly have sync'd playing across, 7 devices running 9 players. * 4 Pis on Ethernet running 6 players * 2 pis on wifi running 2 players * One official Squeezebox (3rd Gen) Ethernet + 3 or 4 control devices displaying currently playing (ipads, phones, etc) In addition, running a different stream (unsync'd) I have * 1 wifi Pi running 1 player (+joggler control unit) * 1 pi offsite (joined over a VPN) * 1 mobile device The sync across the 9 players works great, but adding extra wifi devices tends to cause problems. I originally had more on wifi and have rolled them back to ethernet to get things stable. Adding lower latency items (mobile device, vpn'd device) to a sync group makes everything skip badly (not surprisingly). Using a laptop for LMS I can easily play 9 sync'd, plus all of the others playing indpendantly, with no problems. Using a Pi for LMS this wasn't as smooth as I think the bandwidth was pushing things a bit much. ONE THING THAT HAS HELPED A LOT: I've set up the 'group players' plugin to make running groups incredibly easy. Best of all as it set this up as a 'virtual player' I have changed the transcoding settings for the group player to drop to 192, 160 or 128 depending on the groups to significantly reduce bandwidth through the house. THat way when I do settle down to really listen to something in the main room, I can just switch it on (rather than a group) and play full FLAC quality again. It's the best of both worlds. Another way to do this is just pick one of the lesser used players and downgrade it's transcoding (this is how I used to do it). Squeezebox downgrades all players to the lowest settings of all the devices in a sync group, so this achieves the same thing. Hope that helps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ s2kiwi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63950 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110197 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
