Furry wrote: > I have the piCorePlayer and LMS running on the same RPi (3). > > I put my music library on a USB flash drive, plugged into the RPi, and > pointed the piCorePlayer's LMS at that. > > Playback only on one player is fine, but when attempting to play a > 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC track on the piCorePlayer and then sync a SB Radio > to that, the playback becomes intermittent, sometimes stopping for a few > seconds on the pCP, other times on the Radio. As though a buffering > problem. > > By elimination, I found that it wasn't due to the network, whether WiFi > or wired to the RPi (but always WiFi to the Radio); using another LMS on > a Windows server, with the music library on a disk on that server, > sync'd playback is fine (and using WiFi for RPi and Radio). > > The problem therefore appears to be with using the USB flash for my > library on the RPi. But this is supposed to have a read speed of > 130MB/s. > > What might the problem be? What can I do about it? (to be able to use > the USB flash on the RPi, and sync'd players). > > TIA. > > Edit(1): I'm thinking that it's probably due to USB flash drives being a > bit poor, for seektime etc. Probably need to use a USB SSD. > > Edit(2): I get the same problem using the RPi LMS with a SMB share for > the library on the Windows server. > > Edit(3): I discovered the setting for pointing the piCorePlayer at > 127.0.0.1 for the 'local' LMS, and this appears to have fixed the > problem, at least when using an SMB share for the library. I'll try > using the local USB flash again... > > Edit(4): It now seems to work OK with local USB flash drive for library. > Conclusion: it's a 'must' to point the piCorePlayer to 127.0.0.1 if > also running LMS on the RPi. So I guess this post is now just a story, > as information for anyone else who doesn't already know this; problem > solved.
Hi Furry, You're the best type of user, finds a problem, reports a problem, fixes a problem, then reports back to help others. thanks Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109404 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
