Hi All, Well, I took the plunge (helped by the great feedback from this forum).
I Replaced my 10+ year old server with a new (dedicated to LMS only) Dell Inspiron 3000 Series Model 3847 running a 4th Gen Intel i7-4790 Processor, with 16 GB of Ram, and 2 10,000 RPM 4 Terabyte Hard drives (1 as a backup). The other improvement I made is that I changed music databases. I went from my 40 to 75 VBR WMA database to a Lossless WMA database that I built at the same time (For literally 8 to 10 years). I am pretty excited. It seems like I have been looking forward to rolling out this database forever and I am now able to do it because of the addition of some reasonably good hardware. I do have a few questions regarding some of the settings in LMS. Obviously switching to a lossless format puts a bit of a load on the system and there are some network settings I would like to dial in. They are found in: Web Control, Player, Synchronize: The four I am curious about are "Player Start Delay (ms)", "Player Audio Delay (ms)", "Minimum Synchronization Adjustment (ms)" and Network Packet Latency (ms)". I'm curious if anyone has experimented with these settings as a way to optimize network settings for large files such as the Lossless WMA. I have had a tiny bit of a buffering issue sometimes when playing the very first song on the local database. It hasn't been a huge issue but I am curious what the best combination of settings is. Right now mine are set at 8,8,10 and 2. I am also curious if I should stay with the 7.8 branch or should I change to the 7.9 branch. I haven't really ever been able to decide. If I am missing any other settings please let me know. I apologize if this should be in the "Logitech Media Server Forum". I wasn't quite sure where it fit best and I had some good history on this thread. Thanks everyone! With the upgrades, this is my home music system (I'm done for now). A Dell Inspiron 3000 Series Model 3847 running Windows 8.1 Pro, a 4th Gen 4th Intel i7-4790 Processor, 16 GB of ram, and 2 4 Terabytes hard drives (1 is a backup) A Netgear R7000 with the 2.4 GHz band dedicated to the home system. 14 Squeezebox Radios (7) standalones (2 of them setup as stereo pairs) (4) of them connected to 4 Sunfire DS-8 Self Powered Subwoofers (3) of them connected to 3 pairs of JBL LSR305 Powered Studio Monitors sitting on Maple DR Pro Studio Monitor Stands In the Living Room - A 10.5 Inch Samsung Nexus Galaxy TAB-S running "Squeeze Ctrl" In the Bedroom - A Nexus 7 2013 on a dock running "Squeeze Ctrl" 40,000 tracks, 3000 Albums in Lossless WMA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott Crawford's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63436 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103007 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
