garym wrote: 
> The word "buffering with percentage count up" shows upon the screen of
> either the CONTROLLER or the SqueezePlay "screen" (I still use
> squeezeplay as a controller on my windows laptop, controlling the
> TRANSPORTER).   Seems to be true buffering (as in, after rebuffering it
> may pick up from exactly where it left off, as compared with a true
> loss/gap in audio).
> 
> A couple other points:
> 
> 1. I get the buffering even when the Transporter and Radio are not
> synced, and the Radio is not playing at all (but it is still connected
> to the ethernet over power converters)
> 
> 2. I don't get the buffering playing local files.  Of course the
> buffering is so intermittent* that I can't be 100% sure it doesn't
> happen with local files, as I haven't tried that for an all day period.

"Buffering" will appear when a player reports to LMS that it has no data
to play in its buffer (can't remember which buffer "undecoded" or
"decoded").
When a player is synced the audio stream will go through LMS but when a
player is not synced - the stream may be played directly by the player -
if conditions are right.

If, for test purposes, you can play a stream directly by the player (i.e
audio goes straight from Station to player - not through LMS) and no
"Buffering" occurs then it is likely LMS can be considered part of the
problem. If when playing directly "buffering" still appears -then
"network" is the problem. 

As Transporter cannot play AAC natively and no older SB player can
handle HTTPS  - a test stream has to be a HTTP/MP3 stream with no
redirection to HTTPS.

LMS setting also important (before changing, please record and report
the current settings for reference) 
- the player must be unsynced 
-  WebUI Settings/Player/Audio/Streaming method is set to "Direct
Streaming"
-  WebUI Settings/Advanced/Network/Streaming mode for HTTPS is set to
"Normal"
-  WebUI Settings/Advanced/Filetypes MP3 - Native

To confirm playing the stream a test run can be done using player.source
set to INFO to confirm that stream is being played direct.

As a further check on network health for unusual items such as errors,
timeouts, retransmissions etc.. 
I don't know PCP that well so there may be a btter command. 
Can you post a dump before and after a test of /proc/net/netstat
The output can be made pretty later.


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