Baronvonkarp wrote: > When I start a 24/192 song it starts correctly, after 5 to 10 seconds it > stops one second (no sound) and after that it continuous. When I listen > to the whole album everything goes fine (except for the first song). But > when I skip to the next song (>>) then it happends again. This only > happends with 24/192 songs.
The Touch has a large buffer which it fills over the network connection from the server. When you first start playing a song, or skip to a new song it has to start filling that buffer from scratch. If your server has a slow disk or the network connection is slow it can take a long time to fill the buffer. In order to start playing the song right away it only fills up the buffer a little bit and starts playing it. Then it does things like send over the cover art and song information etc. THEN it continues filling up the buffer. How much of the buffer to fill was determined a long time ago based on a 44.1KHz sample rate, but with high rate files that small initial part of the buffer can get emptied before it starts sending audio data again. Why does it only happen at the first song or a skip? When going from one song to the next in a playlist the data for the next song is sent to the player starting 10 seconds before the previous song ends. At that point all the data has already been sent for that song and its just playing out of the buffer, so the Touch "prefetches" the data for the next song so the buffer is already full when it starts playing the next song. One of the things that can exacerbate the issue is cover art. Try using one of the now playing screens that does not show cover art and see if the problem goes away. If you are running wifi try it wired and see if that helps. It could also be the connection to the server. If the data is on a NAS box and that is connected with wifi, that could be a problem. A slow disk can also be the reason. Particularly a slow external USB disk could be the cause. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
