Sergeauckland wrote: > Thanks for replying. My SBT is connected wireless to the router which is > about 2m away. LMS is connected to the router via a wireless extender as > further away. > > 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.
The network setup has many reason to worry. Wireless is a shared medium unlike wired. Wireless LMS often have problems. Wireless extensions generally halve bandwidth - another cause of problems. Closeness of device to router is no a recipe for success - for example a router with a simple single antenna (e.g straight up bar) have a doughnut broadcast so devices which are close to router and at same level can get poorer reception than device higher up and further away. I haven't checked recently but ALAC used to be played native when SBT use internal TinyLMS but because of issues with native playing, ALAC was transcoded when a full LMS is used. Flac will be played natively. So there may be a difference processing. Get a log of how LMS is handling ALAC - use player.source logging set to INFO and try to play one ALAC track. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111666 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
