If your NAS has a utility like 'top' you could check to see if the CPU is pegged at 100% when trying to get that first track transcoded and out the door. If I recall correctly, that NAS's CPU doesn't do floating point operations, which could be another constraint for transcoding, though I don't know for sure. I have no idea if an external DAC will help -- I don't know enough about if/how that affects the decoding process.
One other test to consider: make FLAC copies of one or more of your ALAC albums and see if you have the same problems when you play it/them. Send the stream as FLAC to be decoded natively on the Touch. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87448 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
