Re: [slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...
Thanks alot guys, it's already survived a router reboot, so I have faith that this will give us much better reliability, however Logitech really needs to just add an automatic reconnect option, no matter how long the wait. BTW, is there a term for slow broadband, or is it just that? I always thought it was the equipment that made it broadband, not the speed. Our ISP just limits it due to the amount of sites that 'share' it... SH -- spyhunter spyhunter's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34068 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70891 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...
Satellite latency + low connection speed...recipe for the problems you are having. Your connection speed is nowhere near broadband speed...Much closer to dial-up. Please remember that your streaming of radio is just one program/service that is accessing the internet. I suspect you are starting with less than a 100k when you stream radio. You can try the various suggestions given here..but I personally doubt you are going to get what you want at 100k. BPA is right...32k stream maybeand like you said maybe, maybe, maybe 128K (and that with the proviso that nothing else is taking upbandwidth like web surfing, email, etc) Bruce -- brucegrr brucegrr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3964 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70891 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...
Satellite links have long transmission times - 0.5 secs and radio has small buffer which would affect it packet window size. Which means it could take 1 sec between radio requesting a packet to top up the internal buffer and it actually arriving at the radio. This sort of delay can be tolerated with file transfer or web browsing but not for real time stream of audio. PC have larger memories and can be more flexible. I think radio has been setup for terrestrial links which may be compromising the performance with a satellite link. With these compromises and your estimate that the link speed at best 100kbits/sec - I'd be surprised if you could play any radio which has greater that 32kbps. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70891 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...
Thanks for trying to help, but this doesn't appear to work since it was already set to repeat the playlist, and I already had several stations in my list, so if this were true it would have been playing the other stations when it came back, and it has never changed stations like that, it just comes to a full stop. SH -- spyhunter spyhunter's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34068 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70891 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...
I'm running backlevel sofware so I don't know about Squeezebox Server but there is a timeout value that you can specify which determines how long the Squeezebox will attempt to reconnect before timing out. Upping that value may help. By the way, 100K is no where near "broadband". -- ghostrider ghostrider's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18959 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70891 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...
>better yet reconnect as soon as a signal is detected< Make your radio station a favourite, then start playing that favourite. Add the favourite again to the end of the playlist (so that the stations appears twice in the playlist). Set the player to repeat playlist. When your 'broadband' drops, that player should just keep cycling around the two items picking up the stream when it can. -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70891 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] A Radio is supposed to play music, not silence...
Why is the top feature of this Internet Radio not the ability to reconnect to an internet radio station when the internet signal drops in speed or hiccups? Who wants to listen to silence? Did the designers expect everybody to have screaming fast broadband? I have to press play on this thing 20 times a day because our broadband is at best 100K over here in the middle east. The least they could do is have some kind of a timeout option on this thing, or better yet reconnect as soon as a signal is detected, how hard is that, this is one of those why oh why questions!?! They spend so much time and effort on other things like redesigning their website (which looks good, but doesn't function for crap with music on-demand services) when they should have had this feature from the get go... Tim -- spyhunter spyhunter's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34068 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70891 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
