Paul Webster wrote: > Quick question ... is it storing chunks in separate files and then > removing played ones as it goes or trying to store the whole "track" in > one file? > > If the latter then one issue that might occur is running out of storage > space when playing something very long. > FYI ... I know of shows on MixCloud that are 4+ hours long.
It stores the whole "track" in one file. But it's not really *the* track in a sense that if there is no need to buffer (i.e. the player wants audio and there is nothing in the file), then audio read from the socket is directly sent to LMS. It can't be chunks because the idea is to be able to download everything and then close the session as quickly as possible, so you must be ready for the whole thing if you have a fast connection, having chunks that are discarded on the flow would not work as the player would still pace the download speed. BTW, it's not stored in system's /tmp which I know can be a small RAM area, but in the cache directory of LMS which must be large this is where artwork, cache and scanner databases are stored. LMS 8.2 on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet, 1xTouch, 1xSB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, RivaArena 1 & 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114388 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
