Phil, with all due respect, I have to disagree with your first sentence, while agreeing with your second. When 'Track gain' is selected for volume adjustment, SlimServer/SqueezeCenter DOES 'scale' the audio samples, thereby destroying the integrity of the DTS code stream. There was some discussion last year about SS being made smarter by recognising DTS bit-streams and disabling gain adjustments for those tracks. It was suggested that the developers would aim for this in Rev. 7, but this clearly hasn't happened (I installed SqueezeCenter 7 yesterday and tested it today, and I still get white noise when volume adjustment is enabled for a DTS track. Disabling volume adjustment ['none'] allows DTS FLAC files to play perfectly through the Squeezebox's Toslink o/p).
agentsmith, the new server (SqueezeCenter) has improved speed in only one or two respects, but is still a dog in most others. While loading a moderate sized playlist still takes minutes, it seems to allow you to start playing (the first track at least) before the full list has loaded into the web interface. And converting it from sequential to shuffled now takes only seconds before play can start. Marc, now that SqueezeCenter is faster at shuffling (or at least allowing you to start playing before it's finished), the need to use Random Play is diminished. I had a look for Erland's SqlPlayList plugin, but his download page doesn't include that plug-in. I'll have a further look when I get more time. Another area where SS/SC is abysmally slow, that I forgot to mention in my original post, is (re)scanning the music library. SS was particularly finicky about broken playlist links, so every time I added, deleted or renamed tracks, I needed to rescan the library. This takes well over half an hour, during which I must suffer in silence :-( I'm hoping SC won't be so touchy about broken links, and will just do what any intelligent s/w does, and skip the 'missing' track. Which brings me to a related question. I create my own playlists outside of SS/SC, using a batch file and a few programs I've written (takes ~24 seconds to create the 'everything' playlist and then derive the artist and other playlists from it). I don't understand why SC needs to 'scan' anything. Why couldn't I just navigate to a ready-made playlist and say 'play this', and off it goes (just like Spider or other players)? Perhaps I'm missing something, and SS/SC was created for a completely different purpose from what I expect it to do (just play my music, anytime, without delay). I guess what I want is Spider Player with a Squeezebox driver! :-) I must say it's been a great disappointment to me that SS/SC doesn't handle external playlists well - SS wouldn't even display artist/title information from an extended M3U playlist! I've yet to test SC for this. Playlists seem such a powerful/flexible way to organise and manage what you want to hear. And if SC handled them properly, I wouldn't have to bother editing my 15,000 tracks to add artist/title tags - a task I don't look forward to! Daniel -- DanielTheGreat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DanielTheGreat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13031 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44457 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
