Thanks for trying it out!
mrw wrote: > The "old" firmware was unable to connect, and played out the fall-back > alarm track instead. Apparently it only allows 25 seconds before > deciding that a station is "bad", and playing out the fall-back alarm. > ... > So, based on my very limited trial, I would say your radio station is > unreliable, at least at present. If it has been consistently unreliable > in the past, I would expect you to have been regularly subjected to the > "fall-back" alarm, instead of the station. Has that been your experience > ? That's certainly been a common experience for me previously, and I was happy to have that timeout increased, but most of the time it has worked. mrw wrote: > As regards the roughness of the sound that you heard, it is possible > that this is a by-product of the combination of an unreliable stream and > a change made to mitigate the effects of "bass drop out". Refer this > post for a description: > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104141-Bass-amp-problem&p=981578&viewfull=1#post981578 > > It's quite possible that an unreliable server is causing a number of > micro "under-runs" in the audio, leading to the effect you describe. I > don't know, though, because I haven't personally encountered the issue > in a year or so of using the modified firmware. I'm not sure.... I wouldn't describe this as "a small click", but more like dropouts happening at a regular high frequency, happening every day but *only* when starting from the alarm function. (When I say "high frequency" that's to say many times per second as opposed to "occasionally".) I noticed that this is a 22kHz stream, which at first made me wonder if there's some piece that is trying to play those 22kHz samples on a 44kHz clock, and doesn't have anything to play for every other slot. But of course that would be a 22kHz artifact, and this is more on the order of 10Hz. The buffer under-run problem is interesting, and makes me wonder what would happen with a much bigger buffer. Maybe I should try the Buffer Size applet. I'm also curious about the 22kHz problem that required updating that applet. library: 23000 MP3, 5000 FLAC active hardware: Transporter SE, Squeezebox Touch, 2 x Squeezebox Radio sometimes casting to: 3 x ChromeCast Audio, Nest Mini spares: 3 x Squeezebox 3/Classic, Squeezebox Boom, SliMP3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rfunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64212 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113479 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
