At 3:40 PM -0500 01/26/2006, GDB-B&W-X.3.9 wrote:
As for the HD, if that were the problem it seems it would affect how they play on the Mac as well, wouldn't it? My fear is that the problem has something to do with the overhead of OSX running on top of it's Unix underpinnings, much like how Windows runs on top of DOS. I think if I could figure out how to tweak the samba settings it would give me a leg up on the problem. Samba has similar packet buffers that need to be increased I'm sure.
Upon rereading your original... Perhaps I misunderstood a bit. Your subject is "streaming music dropouts". I was thinking you were using the Mac as both a file server and a *streaming* music server. But perhaps that's not really the case? The Mac simply holds mp3 files and you're using an mp3 player on a PC or another Mac on your LAN? You've got the server Mac's HD mounted on your PC/Mac and the mp3 player is accessing the mp3 file as if it was local?
If the latter is the case then check within the mp3 player to see if you can increase its buffer size. Ditto for Sharepoints. It's picking up a block of file, passing it to your client Mac or PC and then waiting. Your Mac or PC then isn't asking for the next block soon enough - so by the time it arrives, there's an audio gap heard.
If the above is the case, perhaps you should look into real streaming, instead of just odd file sharing.
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