JohnSwenson wrote: > 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. thanks for the explanation. I use a WD usb drive on my server (hp i7 6 gb) i will try your suggestions. I also have a WD 2tb networkdrive. I will try itfrom that disk also. Again thanks.
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