ozbrit;540653 Wrote: > Yes all streams above 128k are re-buffering. I tried a 320k stream and > it wouldn't even start playing, got stuck on 10%. I downloaded a > 720kbps file from online to my PC's shared files and that plays OK on > Squeezebox. As I have pointed out Ian down the road can't stream the > 160kbps station either but my reciva does. The reciva's were unable to > cope with the 320kbps station.
Which, again, makes it sound like your Reciva has a larger buffer than your Squeezebox. A larger buffer is able to mask dropouts and delays. It also has a slower startup time. It has nothing to do with MySB.com at all: it has to do with how many seconds of audio are stored on your player. Clearly, having an hour worth of audio stored there would mean you could drop offline for 20 minutes without a problem... but the startup time would suck. Having no buffer at all would mean -any- network delays would drop your signal completely, which is also not good. The size of the buffer depends on the memory of the unit and the bitrate and format of the stream. A FLAC stream is going to burn through buffer space like candy. An 8kbps stream is going to have lots of buffer. As I stated earlier, you can proxy streams through SBS and tune the buffers accordingly. This has nothing to do with MySB.com, which does -not- send the stream to you. The stream is a direct connection between your player and the remote site, or if using a local server, there is a possibility to have the much larger memory of the local server be used as a buffer... there is no way for MySB.com to buffer more to your player (nor would it serve any real purpose). MySB.com is simply a 'matchmaker': you request a stream, and MySB says, "go to http://example.com/something/audio to get that". It does not sit in the middle of the stream, and only communicates 'controls' like volume, pause and menus. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77468 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
