chill;607504 Wrote: 
> Indeed - I've noticed the same thing, so for most of the time the player
> is probably simply playing out the contents of the buffer. I can't be
> sure, but it doesn't seem as though there is a continuous stream of
> data to the player, but rather an occasional spurt of data to refill
> the buffer.  If that's the case, then differences in processor load or
> player activity should be audible (if at all) only during these data
> spurts.  If Linux is somehow inferior during these spurts, the effect
> should be to make Linux sound worse in spurts, not continuously.
> 
> But I'm making the mistake of using my deductive reasoning and my
> engineering/scientific superstition again - how idiotically scholastic.

When I monitor my network traffic on my PC I get a continuous 1%
utilization while each track is playing. At the end of the track
utilizatiom drops to zero then there is a short spike of 12% or so,
then it flatlines to 1%.

I assume this is the traffic from PC to router.


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