Hofstede;615153 Wrote: > You ARE kidding are you? > Maybe ask Steve Jobs. He will tell you that a Mac based server sounds > even better ........ :)
No I'm not kidding. OSX I'd rather expect to be as "performant" as Linux. The way I see it - Once more. All processes on the Touch share the same processor/ram etc. All units share the same physical environment and power supplies. The ethernet streaming processes require a pretty decent priority to avoid facing XRUNS sooner or later. There is a lot of interface management associated to ethernet resp. TCP/IP. And that handling I suspect to be in charge for those slight differences in soundquality we're experiencing. There is a pretty large buffer - 15s ( or similar) - on the ethernet side of the Touch. On the first glance the ethernet shouldn't make any problems. Man -- it's a huge buffer. The issue with this is the continous "refill" and "management" of that buffer. 15 seconds (buffer lenght) prior to the end of the song the load of that streaming process is gone. So. from a processing load perspective it doesn't matter if you have a large or a small buffer on that ethernet buffer. The non-linear ethernet load remains constant. Hmmh. That reminds me. I havn't tried to lower that ethernet buffer size. I should try that. ;) (Anybody around who knows where to set the ethernet buffer size parameter?) And those guys who recommended to listen to the last 15s of a track or just just to unplug the cable, could be right about those better sounding 15s buffer music. I'm pretty sure (I've done it on my own Linux based network client) that if you store the full file on the client the network impact would have been eliminated. The IMO 2nd best solution is to avoid continous streaming. Instead you copy large chunks at once to avoid that continous streaming. I got an idea. I'll let you know if it works... -- 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 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
