bpa wrote: 
> It "feels" like the player is running out of data for some tracks as
> player buffers are initially filled and then topped up as playing
> continues. If buffers cannot be topped up in time - player will stop.
> 
> How is the SBT connected to LMS ?  wired / wireless / extension /
> homeplug etc.
> 
> Can failure be repeated everytime with a specific track ?

Thanks for replying. 

I did some more investigating last night and this morning.

Firstly, a track that stops after 31 seconds will do it at the same
point if I go back and play it again. However, if I play the track on my
tablet, using Squeezeplay (Jive) to simulate an SBT, and therefore still
using LMS, the track plays fine. This got me thinking.

The tracks that stop have only ever been ALAC files, not FLAC.  (Not
sure why a Spotify file seemed to have done it once, can't replicate
that)

Looking at various forum posts, the SBT allegedly decodes ALAC badly,
whilst my tablet presumably doesn't have a problem with ALAC.

So I checked the configuration of LMS, and found that I had ALAC and
FLAC both set to Native streams , which presumably means the decoding
would be done locally in the SBT.

I have changed the File Types configuration such that the ALAC files
stream is disabled, and therefore presumably LMS goes to the next in the
menu which is to stream ALAC as FLAC using faad/sox.

Spotty streams are set to stream as FLAC using spotty.exe/flac

There's a lot of 'presumably' here as I'm not totally sure how LMS
works!

Next step is to try again with a long playlist of both ALAC and FLAC
files and see if it still occasionally stops at 31 seconds. 


Thanks for everyone's interest.  If it fails again I'll be back, if not,
I'll update the thread in a day or two.

S.


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