Grossmann200 wrote: > Why should the WiFi-connection breaks only when streaming a web-radio. > but not when streaming music from a hard-drive?
Streaming music from harddrive (all audio of file is immeidately available) comes across in a single http GET which means you'll get a burst of data at the max speed speed of the connection - so music file will be sent to player in one continuous burst if possible. If the file is a typical 3-4 min MP3 then player will be able to buffer whole file before it starts playing. Single TCP/IP connection is used but it is closed when data is all sent so next file will use a new connection. Streaming radio has data but not all data is immediately available as it is an "Inifinte" file so LMS again using a single HTTP GET will sent an initial burst of data (your 20 sec) but then LMS/player will have to wait until more data is available from source then another burst perhaps 10 secs laters, and then another burst perhaps 10 secs later - so streaming radio is made up of of a lot of short bursts of data with long gaps in between on the same TCP/IP connection - but if connection breaks (e.g. lost packet) then no more audio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106693 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
