For what it's worth, I used to have dropouts on my SB1 (wired with FLAC), but I've never had them on my SB3 (wireless, also with FLAC). Now I don't have them on either. I made several changes to eliminate the dropouts, though. My SB1 was plugged into a gigabit switch when it was experiencing the dropouts. Now it's plugged into a 10/100 switch. I also moved my server to more powerful hardware and switched from Windows to Linux. Finally, and more recently, I moved to SC 7.0, which I've found to be a big improvement over 6.5.x.
Since you still see your problem even with a wired network, then bitrate limiting for the purpose of reducing network bandwidth shouldn't matter, since the wired connection should have solved that. However, I suppose it's possible that the higher quality mp3 files were overrunning the SB1's buffer. It may be worthwhile to try and narrow down exactly why you are seeing the dropouts before getting the SB3. But that having been said, I would be very surprised if the SB3 experienced dropouts. The downside to just going to the SB3 is that you may still have some problem that your SB3 is just masking. On Jan 3, 2008 8:17 PM, healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > davep;253860 Wrote: > > I have a SB1 also, as well as a couple of SB2's and a TP. Even though > > the SB1 is the only one of the 4 boxes which is actually wired to the > > router - the others are all wireless - it is the only one that has > > dropouts. I put this down to a combination of running an all-flac > > library and the small size of the buffer in the SB1. My cure has been > > to implement bitrate limiting for this player to 192 kbps and that > > seems to have done the trick. > > > > The newer boxes have an upsized buffer and, as I said, I can stream > > full strength flac to them all with no dropouts, so a new SB3 would no > > doubt solve your problem - assuming it is not some other network issue > > such as a neighbour's new wifi router on the same channel, or a > > microwave oven or cordless phone somewhere nearby causing interference. > > You could try the bitrate limiting trick on your SB1 to see if that > > fixes it. > > > > davep > > Thanks for the input, I appreciate it. I'll try the bitrate limiting, > all of my files are 320 vbr mp3's so that's a good thought. I forget > sometimes about the player settings you can tweak. It's good to know > the sb3 has a bigger buffer. > > > -- > healy > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > healy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=112 > > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41669 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
