billingsgate;584929 Wrote: > > The identical stations, when streamed on a computer through Winamp or > the equivalent (not using my Squeezebox), rarely lose their connection. > So it isn't the stations either. > > I place all the blame on Logitech's network. Maybe it's too crowded. Or > maybe they just don't give a hoot about customers outside the USA and > Europe. I wish their engineers would do something about this, but I'm > not holding my breath.
MySB.com is a matchmaker service. There are two streams: one for 'command and control' which is VERY tiny bandwidth. "User chose this, what should I do?" "Here, display this menu" etc. The other is the audio connection. This is -not- between your player and MySB, it is between your player and the site serving the music. MySB would be stupidly expensive to run if when you chose a station they had to proxy the connection to serve you... it's MUCH easier to just tell your SB, "go to this URL and play it" which is what it does. So if you see rebuffering, it is because you can not maintain the bandwidth needed. Perhaps it is a 128k bps stream and your connection can pull an overall average of 512kbps.. but sometimes drops down to 32k for 30 seconds. You wouldn't necessarily notice that on a web browser. You would probably not even notice it on a PC player that has devoted ram for buffering. You would quite likely notice it on a SB with much less memory for buffering. Your diagnosis about the bandwidth being MySB is flawed: look at it with tcpdump or ethereal or whatever: the bandwidth to/from mysb.com is tiny. You'll see the bandwidth to/from whoever is serving the audio, however, is not coming from MySB but from whoever the radio station is paying to host their streams. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82862 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
