I'm glad you're working on this, because sync was a major attraction in deciding to go with SD, but it has always been a roll of the dice for me. I have two wired SB2s and a wireless SB3, although the sync problems show up even if I connect the SB3 via ethernet. Sometimes the sync is fine, other times it's dreadful.
Most often, sync problems are a matter of getting out of sync at the beginning of a track. I also have problems with drifting out of sync while playing a track, but those seem much less common. I haven't confirmed it yet, but I suspect that the sync problems are worse when I am playing random tracks (such as with Erland's plugins). My thinking (possibly incorrect) is that slimserver is trying to pick a new random track to add to the end of the playlist at the same time that it's trying to start the next track on the playlist simultaneously on 2-3 different SBs, but it just doesn't cope sometimes. But I haven't done controlled testing of that theory, nor am I sufficiently fluent in Perl to know if slimserver is really trying to do all of that at once. This is all with my local music library. I don't try to sync internet radio because it *always* drifts out of sync before very long. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34133 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
