Greetings --I just picked up a Squeezebox Radio and am fairly happy in what I intended to use it for (see mpd configuration below). With my currrent configuration I am experiencing issues with 5-7sec. latency from the music source (server) and SB (guest). I've tried various tuning on the Icecast stream but nothing seems to help. After reading a number of complex articles on the latency issue I am 1) considering a different topology 2) working on implementing something called p4sync.
Anyhow, my desired setup is music stored on Linux server, LMS 7.7.2 installed and functional (other mpd configuration described below). I can spin off VM instances from this system of just about any variety if that helps. Resources on this system are quite abundant. The server currently plays music to an amp via optical connection and amazing B&W speakers. We love this setup and can control/DJ it remotely with the MPD setup. So in other words, it plays to the local sound card. I'm wondering if there's a hack for LMS that will allow multiple outs like this: a) to the local system and b) to the SB device. And if so is there any known latency issues with this? MPD (Music Player Daemon) Setup So for nearly a decade my system has been setup this way. MPD references a 1Tb disk. It's controlled by various clients (mpm via Firefox, mpod via iphone, another Android client, etc.). I recently added a streaming output to an Icecast server running on the same system in hopes that I could point the SB at it and... viola! But of course, no, although it starts playing straight away the IC stream is about 5-7sec. behind. I've read a bunch of stuff about this issue and it doesn't seem like anyone has come up with a good solution. I'm currently exchanging email with the MPD developers but also found this which offers some hope (not easy to get it working): snarfed dot org slash synchronizing_mp3_playback (workaround for link restriction :-/) So anyway, if you have any advice to offer with regards to setup that works for you, suggestions on something to implement with what I already have, or... whatever, I'd be very grateful. Thank you, -zeek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ezekieldas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58214 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97317 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
