chill;607593 Wrote: > Update: > > Disregard those figures. I found a way to isolate the Perl module in > the activity monitor, and I queued up a FLAC album (previous figures > were based on an old OGG album). The Perl process seems to maintain a > continuous level of network traffic at around 110-140KB/sec, until > about 40 seconds from the end of a track, when it drops to around > 25KB/sec. At about 10 seconds from the end it spikes to 1.6MB/sec. So > it seems as though that spike is the player filling the buffer with the > next track, and then the buffer is topped up continuously until near > the end of the track (-40s) when the whole of the remainder of the > track is in the buffer. > > So all that this shows is that, for the Mac at least, the period > between -40s and -10s should be virtually free of network traffic, and > should sound better than the rest of the track if there's anything to > this theory.
You know what I try next. I'm gonna play a wav file from SD-card with aplay from Touch commandline. ;) And just to mention it: All PC based "audiophile players" use mainly full file RAM buffering. Mainly to avoid heavy I/O load during playback. -- soundcheck 'soundcheck's Touch Toolbox 2.0' (http://soundcheck-audio.blogspot.com/2011/01/soundchecks-squeezebox-touch-toolbox-20.html) || 'soundcheck's Touch Toolbox - Beta Blog' (http://soundcheck-audio.blogspot.com/2011/01/soundchecks-tt-beta-blog.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ soundcheck's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34383 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84742 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
