PasTim wrote: > I have the enhanced kernel installed on my Touch. I'm running LMS 7.8 > on a Vortebox appliance, playing FLACs, with the File Type set to PCM > only. The connection to the Touch is wired. > > The Touch is outputting Digital (only) to a Musical Fidelity M1 Clic. > > Once in a while the system stutters about 10 seconds before the end of > some tracks. It's as if in preparation for the next track the FLAC > decoding process on the VB has stopped because it thinks its job is > done, and then the Touch asks for a retransmission, which requires the > process to restart (but that is wild guesswork). > > I haven't been able to pin down when this happens precisely, except it's > usually when I have settled down to some serious listening! When I try > to isolate the problem it usually fails to manifest itself, a bit like > taking your car to the garage with a fault that promptly disappears > until you get the car back. > > I have never had this stutter playing music in any other way, including > via a PC running squeezelite to an async USB DAC. > > Has anyone else had something similar? It's driving me mildly nuts.
The server starts sending the next track about 10 seconds before the end of the current track so the player has data when the current track ends so there is no gap. It's also doing things like sending track data and cover art. It might have something to do cover art, or it could happen if you have your library on more than one disk and one of those disks has gone to sleep and has to wake up. You can look at the server log files and see if you see any errors in the output. One thing you can do is write down the specifics of the current track and next track when this happens and see if there is some correlation (like its always when going from the last track of an album to the first of another, or if it happens when changing sample rates, or when changing file types etc) Any such correlation will help pin things down. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
