So, Michael kindly integrated the full feature in the latest nightly (04/26), so here is a reminder of what it does
Persistent & Cache have the same objective: make your "long" connection more reliable. A lot of servers today expect people to not stream for long time (except webradio of course) so they will close such long sessions. They want you to get what you need as quickly as possible and then leave... Cache is doing that by downloading the WHOLE track as quickly as possible and caching it into the disk. Now if that download fails, the playback will fail at some time, there is no retry. Cache obviously does not work for webradio streams or servers that does not communicate expected length and cache uses potentially large amount of disk. Persistent is using a different approach where it does not try to go fast, but it is stubborn. If the connection closes, it will re-open it until it has received everything expected or more than 5 consecutive errors happen. So it solves the problem differently and still have series of (very) long sessions, which might not look like "playing nice" for some servers. Now it works well for webradio as well. Note that if you chose "Cache" it will fallback automatically to "Persistent" when expected length is unknown. I personally use "Cache" because I think the likelihood of a quick download to fail is *very* low and I don't mind the disk usage You can find these settings under the "Networking" tab of LMS. Of course, you can use "Normal streaming" in which case you're back to the way LMS has always streamed, which means that if a session is interrupted, then the track's playback will fail at some point later. 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
