[slim] Re: Which format puts heaviest demand on SB?
Thanks for the replies and sorry for the confusion. I am currently running two wireless SB3#8217;s playing MP3#8217;s (VBR highest quality setting) and have not experienced any network drops or skips in the audio. I feel confident my network, server and SB can easily manage these MP3 streams. I just wanted to make sure my environment (server, network, SB) as a whole can handle the most extreme cases when streaming audio. Based on Mark#8217;s reply, wav audio format is probably the most demanding on the network (and possibly server), since it is streaming at 1440 Kbps. Good starting point for me to run some wav streams through my configuration. What do you mean by stress? stress - try: test the limits of -- joek joek's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3318 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20825 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Which format puts heaviest demand on SB?
To place demand on the server you could set it up to transode from something like OGG (takes slightly more CPU to decode than MP3) and then send it out as MP3 with some insane quality presets. That should stretch your server. What is your server hardware? Are you using all this wired or wire less? How many SBs are we talking here? a completely wired network with hardware less than three years old and a single SB is going to cope with anything you can throw at it. Increase the number of SBs significantly, use old hardware and switch to wireless and you will very easily start to come across problems. Some of with will be easy enough to get round, others not so (wireless especially when you have a noisy signal area) -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20825 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Which format puts heaviest demand on SB?
If you can play WAV without issues, you can definitely play FLAC. WAV = 1440 kbps (off a CD), with overhead you'd need 2000 kbps of bandwidth at least. FLAC = 1000 kbps, 1500 kbps of bandwidth will do. There's no reason to stream WAV though. You won't gain any quality, it doesn't support tags and it uses more hard drive space and bandwidth. There's a good network test plugin here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18149. If you can manage 2000 kbps at 100%, you will have no problems with WAVs, but you'll only need 1500 kbps for FLAC. joek wrote: Thanks for the replies and sorry for the confusion. I am currently running two wireless SB3#8217;s playing MP3#8217;s (VBR highest quality setting) and have not experienced any network drops or skips in the audio. I feel confident my network, server and SB can easily manage these MP3 streams. I just wanted to make sure my environment (server, network, SB) as a whole can handle the most extreme cases when streaming audio. Based on Mark#8217;s reply, wav audio format is probably the most demanding on the network (and possibly server), since it is streaming at 1440 Kbps. Good starting point for me to run some wav streams through my configuration. What do you mean by stress? stress - try: test the limits of -- ___ Mark Lanctot ___ __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
