This issue is not related to FLAC streaming only. I stream WAV and I also experienced the issue with 7.3.3. For now I went back to 7.2.1. and that works fine. I guess it is fair to say that the issue is more likely to occur when streaming larger audio formats (lossless).
I noticed that the streaming generates a relatively constant data flow on the network. Near the end of a song, the dataflow becomes more important. On a 10Mb network, the load went up to 30% which is significant. This was measured with only one SB3 streaming audio. On a 100Mb this will drop down of course. But nevertheless, streaming generates an important amount of data packets on the network. It is therefore very much possible that some people may run into issues if they already have a busy network. In a cabled environment this is very easy to solve by upgrading to a gigabit backbone. Gigabit networks can even use jumbo frames if required and that will benefit the network traffic even further. But wireless is a different story. Since an Access Point is a bridge, it will bridge all cabled traffic to the wireless (and vice versa) putting a lot of load on the wireless network if the cabled network is busy. It might be wise to try and find ways to decrease the traffic generated by the streaming protocol. One way of doing that is to use a larger buffer in the players. A larger buffer would give the player more stream ahead room and this would decrease the possibility of running out of buffer. But I dont know if that is possible in the current line of players (hardware wise). In any case, there is a difference between the streaming of SC 7.3.3. and SC 7.2.1. By knowing this, it should be fairly easy to compare the traffic generated between those two versions and find a solution to the issue. In order to debug an issue like this, youll need to use a network sniffer. Microsoft provides one for free here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=983b941d-06cb-4658-b7f6-3088333d062f&displaylang=en -- Pascal Hibon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pascal Hibon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7969 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65719
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